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A Newbury woman who was left a quad-amputee after spending months in a coma, is calling on everyone to be aware of the symptoms of sepsis, writes Ollie Basham. Beth Budgen, 47, was rushed to hospital from her sister’s house in Newbury on Christmas Day 2022 and said she was lucky to survive after infection ravaged her body. She had to have both her legs amputated below the knee, lost the tops of her fingers on one hand and most of her fingers on the other. But the former St Bartholomew’s School student remains positive about the future and is now telling the story about how sepsis devastated he…

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