Dancer was put in a coma and woke up to her arms and legs amputated

Dancer on holiday of a lifetime was put in a coma after being bitten by a mosquito – when she woke up her arms and legs had been amputated

• Tatiana Timon, 35, from South London, was rushed to hospital with malaria
• She awoke from a coma to see both arms and legs had been amputated  

A dancer has told of how she awoke from a coma with no arms or legs after she was bitten by a mosquito abroad. 

Tatiana Timon, 35, from Camberwell, London, was rushed to hospital after she returned from an ‘amazing’ dance trip to Angola, Africa, with malaria last year.

Miss Timon’s condition quickly worsened and doctors had to put her in an induced coma after she developed sepsis.

When she awoke she ‘knew something’ had happened to her but soon realised both her arms and legs had been amputated.

But she has said she is just ‘grateful to be alive’ and has remained positive despite waking up as a quadruple amputee only less than a year ago.

Tatiana Timon (pictured), 35, from Camberwell, London, was rushed to hospital after she returned from an ‘amazing’ dance trip to Angola, Africa, with malaria last year.

When she awoke she ‘knew something’ had happened to her but soon realised both her arms and legs had been amputated

Miss Timon told MyLondon: ‘When I woke up from the coma I knew, I saw that I was in hospital, and I knew something happened to me. 

‘But at that time I didn’t know how bad it was, like I just knew something had happened.’

She explained she had been in Angola for the ‘most amazing’ ten days as she pursued her passion for Zumba.

But she had unknowingly been bitten by a mosquito and contracted the ‘deadliest’ form of malaria.

Miss Timon said she was ‘clueless’ and admitted she hadn’t followed her GP’s advice to take antimalarials as a precaution in the country.

When she returned to London, Miss Timon said things started to escalate quickly and she didn’t recover after falling of a bike.

She was rushed to hospital and went into a coma where she developed sepsis, so doctors made the decision to amputate her limbs to save her life.

Miss Timon is now determined to become independent and has new prosthetic arms and legs.

Miss Timon said she was ‘clueless’ and admitted she hadn’t followed her GP’s advice to take antimalarials as a precaution in the country

Miss Timon is now determined to become independent and has new prosthetic arms and legs

She shares updates on her Instagram page and vows to remain positive. Miss Timon wrote on one post: ‘Now even without limbs I know that I will go back to the gym.

‘I am determined to go back to being my healthy self, mentally and physically.’

Tatiana is fundraising in the hope of buying new prosthetics, which can cost up to £160,000.

She added: ‘What happened to me changed me. Changed me inside. I have the support of my friends, my family. I’m just grateful I’m alive. Just being grateful is enough.

‘I’ve always been positive, I’ll make a joke about anything. A negative thing I can turn into a positive thing to make my life easier, because I don’t like stress. It happened, so I need to deal with it.’ 

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