By Tim Stickings For Dailymail.com
Published: 16:53 GMT, 19 March 2019 | Updated: 16:53 GMT, 19 March 2019
View
comments
A firefighter who lost his right hand to sepsis after thinking he had only torn a muscle has begun his road to recovery.
Josh Woodward, who worked at Albany Airport in New York, had to have his hand and all his toes amputated after medics found an infection which had spread all over his body.
The father-of-two was initially given just a five per cent chance of surviving after the infection was discovered in his heart, lungs, kidneys and liver.
Firefighter Josh Woodward had to have his right hand and all ten toes removed after contracting sepsis
He was put into intensive care where he had a total of seven surgeries, but is now in recovery and his kidneys are able to function again without dialysis.
Describing what happened, the family said: 'On Monday, February 4, on their usual date night, Josh mentioned that he thought he'd pulled a muscle in his arm and it was sore.
'Being a firefighter, this isn't an unlikely occurrence.
'The next day he woke up with a fever but thought absolutely nothing of it, figured he caught what their two young kids had a few days prior and expected a few days of
