By James Gamble

A dad has thanked the doctors who saved his life after attending the hospital with severe stomach pains, which turned out to be deadly sepsis.

Craig Myall was put in an induced coma and spent five months in the hospital, having to learn to walk again when he woke up.

The 36-year-old spoke of his terrifying ordeal in battling his life-threatening condition, caused by an intestinal infection, which included hallucinations of "scorpions on the ceiling" and seeing an IKEA store outside the hospital.

Despite now having to live with a stoma and ileostomy - and having endured nine operations - dad-of-two Myall says he's "forever grateful" to be back at home with his two daughters.

He said: “I had heard of sepsis, but I didn’t really understand what it was, and I never thought

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