Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay revealed he had his hands and feet amputated after contracting sepsis last year.
The South Thanet MP is due to return to parliament on Wednesday, eight months after he was rushed to hospital.
He told his voters in December he was diagnosed with sepsis in September 2023 and placed in a medically induced coma with multiple organ failure.
Mackinlay added that he was “very lucky to be alive” and that he underwent “extreme surgery” as a result of the illness.
Now, on the eve of his return to the House of Commons, he told the BBC he wanted to be the first “bionic MP”, having received prosthetic hands and legs.
He described waking up from a coma and seeing that his legs “turned black,” telling the broadcaster: “I don’t have a medical degree, but I know what dead things look like.
“I was surprisingly stoic about it… I don’t know why I was. It could have been because of the various drug cocktails I was taking.”
All the amputations took place on December 1 and Mackinlay said a “bleak” Christmas followed.
But he said his four-year-old daughter Olivia “adjusted very easily… probably better than anyone else, frankly, I think kids are extremely adjustable.”
Now he has his sights set on Westminster, where after answering the Prime Minister’s questions, the MP will meet Rishi Sunak before returning to his day job.
And he is determined to fight the next election to continue serving his Kent constituency.
“When children arrive at parliament’s fantastic education center, I want them to pull on their parents’ or teacher’s coat or skirt and say, ‘I want to see the bionic MP today’.”
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