‘Happy to be alive’: US woman gets limbs amputated after kidney stone surgery

Doctors told Kentucky woman she would need quadruple amputation to save her life after kidney stone infection spread

A Kentucky woman who unexpectedly learned she would lose her legs and arms during what she thought would be a relatively routine bout with a kidney stone is confronting her plight by focusing on what she still has.

I'm just so happy to be alive," Lucinda Cindy" Mullins - who's raising two sons with her husband - recently told the Kentucky news station WLEX. I get to see my kids. I get to see my family. I get to have my time with my husband.