Kentucky Lucinda Mullins, ‘warrior’ mother of two, has taken her first steps on her own since losing all four limbs septicemia after routine kidney stone surgery.
In a video posted to his TikTok page on Wednesday, Mullins, 41, could be seen leaving a room at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital in Lexington, showing off his new prosthetic legs.
She took a few short steps without the support of nearby nurses, as she was apparently strapped to a walker.
Hospital nurses also appeared to take part in the celebration, holding up their old prosthetics as they articulated a scene from The Princess Diaries in which a stylist says, “Paolo, take ‘this’ and ‘this’ and he’ll give you a princess.”
Mullins would later share the video on his Facebook page and write “I made my first TikTok today” while promoting the work of his physical therapists.
Lucinda Mullins, 41, posted a video showing her taking her first steps alone since she was forced to amputate all four of her limbs.
Mullins, a mother of two, has also recently been fitted with robotic arms that move when she shrugs. WKYT Reports.
Photos posted on GoFundMe Raising money for her adaptive team shows her using the black metal arm to grab items from a basket.
The moves mark major milestones for Mullins, a nurse, who had to have her limbs amputated after suffering a septic infection during a routine operation to remove kidney stones before Christmas.
She and her husband DJ previously described to DailyMail.com how she became dizzy and collapsed after the stent was removed, and her blood pressure fell to dangerously low levels.
Mullins was immediately taken to a local hospital, where doctors discovered that an unremoved kidney stone had become infected.
Mullins had to have her limbs amputated after she became septic during a routine operation to remove kidney stones before Christmas.
He was told that he had suffered septic shock and that his organs had begun to fail. Doctors stabilized her and placed her on a ventilator before she was transported to a larger hospital in Lexington.
For a week, Mullins “wasn’t moving, wasn’t talking, wasn’t responding,” DJ said.
“They said it was on the edge of a cliff and it was about to get worse.”
Over the next few days, as his organ function began to improve, blisters broke out on his extremities.
When he regained consciousness, doctors told Mullins he would survive the infection, at the cost of his hands and legs.
The mother-of-two has said her family’s support has helped her get through the ordeal.
Surprisingly, Mullins said he was “at peace” and “fine with it” when doctors broke the news to him.
“There was just this presence of God around me that told me everything was going to be okay,” he explained.
“I was alive and I was able to see my family and friends again. And if that was a sacrifice I had to make, you know, I was fine with it.
‘That was the only way to save my life and I never questioned it. I just felt like God chose me to make this happen and that he was going to use me greatly.’
He then underwent a series of amputations that ended with the removal of his forearms in February.
After hours of physical therapy sessions, Mullins regained her ability to eat on her own and learned to sit upright on her own.
To get through recovery, Mullins said she relied on the comfort of knowing her family would be with her every step of the way.
“I know there will be tough times coming, but just knowing that I would be able to see my kids again and that I had the support of my family, I think that gave me peace to be okay with this.”
With their support, Mullins was able to eat on her own within weeks: She posted a video on her Facebook page showing her wearing a black strap that can be attached to her arm with a fork sticking out of it.
Soon, she also learned to sit on her own and scroll through her phone with her nose.
Mullins’ friends say she is truly a ‘princess’ and a ‘soldier’ as they celebrated the news of her first steps on Tuesday.
In March, Mullins began the grueling task of learning to walk again on artificial legs.
‘Moving in the right direction. One happy girl,” she captioned her friend Heather Beshears on photos of her. ‘These are training legs. They’ll put her knees in when she’s ready.’
Now Mullins’ friends say she is truly a ‘princess’ and a ‘soldier’ as they celebrated the news of her first steps on Tuesday.
‘Truly a soldier, so strong!’ a friend commented on her post. “You will come back, nothing will stop you.”
Another called the video “wonderful” and “a blessing.”