A Utah mother diagnosed with a cold was left without limbs.
The pneumonia later turned into sepsis, which prompted doctors to perform a quadruple amputation.
King was taking Humira to treat the condition but the medication weakens the immune system, which her family believes led to her getting the cold.
But family members said doctors at the hospital made a decision when trying to save her life that led to the amputations. The doctors put King on Levophed, which is meant to treat low blood pressure and heart failure. The drug cut off blood from King’s extremities, leading to the rare quadruple amputation.
“At this point, the medical bills, the cost of the prosthetics, the renovating of the home to accommodate to Tiffany and other things that our family will need to financially support her family, we need all the financial support we can get. There is no one you'll find more deserving, more loving and humble than Tiffany Fonohema [King].”
The family has created a GoFundMe to help assist with the huge medical costs associated with months of hospital care and the amputations.
The funds will also go toward renovating King’s home to accommodate her new life without limbs.
The family has set a goal of $300,000.
So far, they’ve raised almost $30,000 at the time of this publication.