A Fort Worth man's complications from the flu have now forced doctors to amputate both of his feet and nine fingers. (Published Monday, Feb. 5, 2018) 
 
 A Fort Worth man's complications from the flu have now forced doctors to amputate both of his feet and nine fingers. 
 
 Brian Herndon remains in the Intensive Care Unit at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. 
 
 He was diagnosed with pneumonia on January 4 and the flu on January 5. Family members tell NBC 5 that most recently he entered into septic shock. That left doctors no choice but to amputate both of his legs below the knees and nine of his fingers. 
 
 Herndon's wife said he did not have a flu shot this year and they got Tamiflu, but did not have a chance to start it before he was taken to the hospital. 
 
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 Herndon is hopeful that he will be out of ICU by the end of this week. 
 
 A gofundme page set up for Brian details that he will need prosthetics for both feet and special hand work. As of Monday evening, they had raised $10,500 dollars towards a $22,000 goal. 
 
 

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 Brian Herndon, 51, of Fort Worth, had both feet amputated and several fingers stemming from complications from the flu. 
 
 A North Texas man is working to recover after losing both feet to amputation as part of complications from the flu. 
 
 The series of serious complications mark the latest example of a dangerous and deadly flu season nationwide and in Texas. 
 
 Brian Herndon, 51, was diagnosed with the flu on January 4. He was admitted to a Fort Worth hospital the following day with pneumonia and quickly went into septic shock. 
 
 The husband and father of two was airlifted to Baylor Hospital in Dallas on January 6 where he has been for the past four weeks, most of that time intubated and in and out of consciousness. 
 
 He spoke with WFAA via Skype from his hospital room Sunday and in a voice just above a whisper shared what the last month has been like 
 
 "One minute you’ve got the flu and the next minute you’re septic," Herndon said. 
 
 Jaye Herndon says her husband had no underlying medical conditions that would make him more susceptible to more than just typical flu symptoms, like high fever and aches. 
 
 "He had a 104.7 temperature right away," Herndon said. "And then he had trouble breathing. We didn't wait, we went to the ER. It was that quick." 
 
 Effects of the septic shock led to blood clots in his extremities. Earlier this month both of his feet and lower legs were amputated right above the ankle. 
 
 His wife, a nurse by profession, says he will likely lose most of his fingers as well. 
 
 She hopes he can move to a rehabilitation stage of recovery in the coming weeks, but for now, it is still day by day. 
 
 "Right now I'm still in 'whatever he needs mode'," Herndon said. "That’s what you’re focused on and then you trade out with a family member and you go home and take care of the kids.” 
 
 Friends have set up a GoFundMe to help when Brian Herndon begins rehabilitation and will need to acquire prosthetics. 
 
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– "One minute you've got the flu and the next minute you're septic." That's the message from a Texas man who lost both of his feet and nearly all of his fingers after coming down last month with the illness, per WFAA. As flu season continues to wreak havoc across the US, Brian Herndon has been recuperating and drifting in and out of consciousness for weeks at Dallas' Baylor University Medical Center, where he was airlifted on Jan. 6 after being diagnosed with the flu just 48 hours earlier. The 51-year-old father of two was also hit with pneumonia, and soon after he was admitted to a Fort Worth hospital on Jan. 5 he went into septic shock. Doctors were forced to amputate both of his legs below the knee and nine of his fingers after the septic shock caused blood clots to form. Herndon's wife, Jaye, tells NBC 5 that he hadn't had a flu shot this year, and that the illness progressed so rapidly he'd never even had a chance to take the Tamiflu he was given when he was initially diagnosed. "He had a 104.7 temperature right away," she tells WFAA. "And then he had trouble breathing. We didn't wait, we went to the ER. It was that quick." A GoFundMe campaign that has raised more than $23,000 so far will use the money to pay for new prosthetic legs and additional medical care for Herndon, including special work on his hands. His family hopes he'll be out of Baylor's ICU by the end of this week. "Every dollar will help show love to an amazing man!," the GoFundMe page notes.