By Charlie Coë For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 15:55 GMT, 4 March 2019 | Updated: 19:58 GMT, 4 March 2019
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An Australian father who came home from a holiday with a sore throat has been forced to have both his legs amputated after contracting two debilitating infections.
Manly ferry worker Jason Miller, 48 - known to his family and friends as Buddy - was admitted to hospital in October with a stinging throat and aching pains shortly after returning from the Philippines.
Mr Miller had delayed his trip to the doctor by a day because he wanted to wait it out and return to work, but his condition quickly worsened upon arrival at Sydney's Northern Beaches Hospital.
Australian father Jason Miller (pictured with daughter Jhayda), who came home from holiday with a sore throat, was forced to have both his legs amputated after contracting two debilitating infections
Having gone into septic shock, doctors put him (pictured) into a coma and diagnosed him with the bacterial infections streptococcus and aerococcus
Having gone into septic shock, doctors put him into a coma and diagnosed him with the bacterial infections streptococcus and aerococcus.
An infectious disease specialist who worked on the father's case said doctors initially thought he had picked up an imported infection - for which penicillin could have provided a cure.
But after five days in a coma, the two infections had left his hands and feet
