Mother loses HALF of her face to a flesh-eating bug after hitting her head on the oven: Doctors battled to save her life after small cut above her eye became infected and destroyed her beauty

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A mother-of-three had half of her face sliced off after developing a potentially deadly infection after whacking her head on her oven.

Donna Corden, 46, of Leeds, knocked herself out during the incident earlier this year and sustained a small cut above her left eyebrow.

Within just 24 hours, her face turned a frightening shade of black and she became delirious and dizzy. She was rushed to hospital.

Doctors diagnosed her with necrotising fasciitis – a flesh-eating bug that often kills. Her children were told to ‘prepare for the worst’.

Surgeons were able to cut away the rotten flesh to keep her alive, but days later she went onto develop sepsis and her life hung in the balance.

Her body went into organ failure and she was placed in an induced coma so she could recover, she was pumped full of antibiotics.

Speaking for the first time since recovering, Ms Corden, who has had skin grafted from her lower limbs onto her face, said: ‘I’m alive. It could be worse.’

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