Kentucky nurse Lucinda Mullins, 41, makes 抱擁する 進歩 as she 株 pictures doing SIT UPS - three months after losing all four 四肢s 予定 to sepsis

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A Kentucky?nurse who lost all four 四肢s after 決まりきった仕事 腎臓 外科 has 株d pictures of her doing sit-ups ahead of getting her prosthetics.

Lucinda Mullins, 41, lost all her 四肢s when doctors had to amputate to save her life when a?腎臓 石／投石する 感染 led to 血 毒（薬）ing in December.

The mother of two from Ferguson has been making daily 進歩 since she was moved to the 枢機けい／主要な Hill Rehabilitation Hospital in Lexington.

Lucinda 'Cindy Williams, 41, lost all four 四肢s after 決まりきった仕事 腎臓 外科, has made 抱擁する 進歩 and is pictured doing a sit-up 決まりきった仕事 as she 準備するs for her prosthetics

Mullins is pictured working with a specialist at the rehabilitation 中心 working on stretching and strength training 演習s - before she is fitted for her prosethetics

The Mullins family pictured during a family picnic before the mom-of-two became an amputee?

Mullins is pictured working with a specialist 成し遂げるing stretching and strength training 演習s, before she is fitted for her prosthetics? - in? a 一連の photos 株d on her GoFundMe.

Heather Beshears, who started the fundraiser, 供給するs daily updates on Mullin's 進歩. On Tuesday, she wrote: '無 days off for this chic. So impressive !!!!!'

The GoFundMe that was created on December 18, 2023 - days after the 近づく-致命的な event - has raised thousands, but more is needed to help 支払う／賃金 for Mullins 医療の costs and 回復.

述べるd as 'a lovely, caring, 勇敢に立ち向かう and beautiful young lady,' Mullins 充てるd husband, DJ, and her two young children have been at her 味方する 含むing, 延長するd family and friends.

The fundraiser has received more than 4.8K 寄付s and as of Tuesday more than $309,000 has been raised に向かって their goal of $350,000.

The 基金s will go に向かって?Mullins 広範囲にわたる 医療の 法案s, and to help the family transform their home so it would be livable for Mullins.

Beshears, the fundraiser's 組織者 wrote? 'the cost of all this can be 圧倒的な.'??

'We started this fundraiser because we want to support our hero Cindy, 同様に as her husband DJ who has been by her 味方する every step of the way,' she wrote, in part.

?'Cindy and her family will have to make a few 調整s to their home to 融通する Cindy's needs 同様に as her prosthetics and adapt ive 器具／備品.'

She 株d that their two young children 行方不明になる their mother and father since the harrowing ordeal, and asked for the public's continued support in her 回復.??

'Let's help 緩和する their 重荷（を負わせる） while they 傷をいやす／和解させる and get 支援する to their lives. We hope to be able to 許す Cindy to 焦点（を合わせる） on her 回復,' she wrote.

Many 支持者s have 株d messages of love, support and 傷をいやす／和解させるing for Mullin's long 旅行.?

Cindy, her husband DJ, and their two young sons before the sepsis that nearly killed her

One person wrote:? 'Your story, your 楽観主義 and your 約束 has 奮起させるd me. I wish you receive all the help you need during this 堅い time. God Bless.'

'Saw your story on Candace Owens' show. You are an incredibly strong woman. I 疑問 I would be able to 扱う your 状況／情勢 with your grace. Good luck and God Bless,' another person wrote.

Through physical therapy, she can now sit up, 解除する her 武器 to scratch her nose, 運動 with her 長，率いる, booty scoot all over the place and scroll through her messages.

In an interview with Good Morning America earlier this year, Mullins talked about what she would do when she returned home and explained what had gone wrong with her 石／投石する 除去.

She explained that she had 選ぶd for an elective 腎臓 石／投石する and the doctor had left a 一時的な stent in her 団体／死体 に引き続いて the 外科 to 妨げる blockage.

Cindy Mullins, 41, awoke from sedation just before Christmas to find doctors had amputated all four 四肢s in a desperate 企て，努力，提案 to save her life after a 腎臓 石／投石する 感染 led to 血 毒（薬）ing?

に引き続いて doctor's orders, she 除去するd the stent at home, began to feel sick and was 設立する on the 床に打ち倒す by her husban d, DJ.

Mullins was すぐに 急ぐd to a hospital and doctors began 成し遂げるing 実験（する）s on her.

The former nurse said: 'They checked my 血 圧力 and it was 50 over 31, and in my mind, I knew that was not good. They started IVs on both 武器, and I don't remember anything after that.'

To 安定させる her 条件, she was placed on a ventilator before she was able to be transferred to a larger hospital in Lexington. Her family was then 通知するd that she was in a 悲惨な 状況／情勢.

Mullins was then put on 透析 to help her 腎臓s and an ECMO machine to give her heart and 肺s time to 残り／休憩（する） and 傷をいやす／和解させる.

'My husband and sister were there and they told them that I was on the 辛勝する／優位 of a cliff and it was about to get worse before it got better. After the 外科, I was put on ECMO and 透析, and was still on the ventilator,' Mullins 解任するd.

While her 組織／臓器s were receiving the support they needed, her 脚s and 武器 began to develop blisters.

By the time she was 除去するd from the ventilator, her 脚s and 武器 had 厳しく 悪化するd and had to be amputated.

'When they told me that was going to happen, that I was going to lose my 手渡すs and my feet, I wasn't angry. I had a peace about me. I just felt God's presence 説, 'It's going to be 承認する. You're alive. This is what has happened,' and I wasn't upset about it.

?'Doctors tell me they can't put a 百分率 on how の近くに I was to 現実に dying, and then me doing 同様に as I am after 存在 on ventilator, ECMO and 透析... for me to be doing that 井戸／弁護士席, as 急速な／放蕩な I did, is yet another 奇蹟

'It was just one of those things where they explain all the bad things that can happen when you have 外科, and I was that rare 事例／患者 was really healthy ,' Mullins said.

'The doctor I used to work with, he 肉親，親類d of was like, 'This is what they had to do to save your life. This is what's happened'.

'I just said these are the cards I've been dealt and this is the 手渡す I'm going to play.

'I'm just so happy to be alive. I get to see my kids. I get to see my family. I get to have my time with my husband. Those are minor things at this point,' she said.