Sepsis took my fingers and legs but I’m still standing.
Barry O’Sullivan’s life changed forever this year when he got sepsis, resulting in his legs being amputated below the knee and the loss of fingers. The 52-year-old Cork man tells CHRIS DUNNE about the ordeal and his hopes for the future
Barry O’Sullivan and his mother Kitty.
Chris Dunne
BARRY O’Sullivan, from Ballincurrig, will never forget February of this year, when his life changed irrevocably forever.
“I was chopping wood all day outside in the garden on the Sunday before I went into hospital,” says Barry, aged 52.