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https://nypost.com/2019/08/01/dog-saliva-infection-leaves-ohio-woman-without-arms-legs/ [nypost.com]

Welcome home smooches left this Ohio woman a paraplegic.

When hair stylist Marie Trainer returned from a Caribbean vacation May 10 with her husband, their two dogs excitedly greeted them with lots of licks.

“My dogs lick me all the time,” Trainer tells Fox 8 Cleveland.

But by the next night, Marie was exhibiting flu-like symptoms, feeling nauseous and achy, with her temperature rising and then plummeting to 93 degrees — at which point hubby Matthew Trainer rushed her to the emergency room.

In critical care at Aultman Hospital, doctors quickly realized Marie had sepsis, an immune response to infection, and her condition was deteriorating.

“If we did not proceed with the amputations, it was going to lead to her death, and quickly,” Marie’s step-daughter Gina Premier, a nurse practitioner at Aultman, tells Fox.

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