Adventurous Sam Owen is lucky to be alive. Photo: M & Y News Ltd/REX Source: Austral International Press Agency
ADVENTUROUS Sam Owen is lucky to be alive after contracting a disease from rats urine while kayaking down a river.
Brave Sam, 24, believes the bacteria entered his body through his eyes and nose, as well as grazes on his hands from rock climbing.
He was rushed to hospital after he began vomiting and had excruciating back ache before being diagnosed with Weil's disease, which attacks the organs and can be fatal.
Sam, of Petersfield, Hants, said: "I read there were two weeks from when you contract it to going pass the point of surviving, I was 17 days so I shouldn't have survived.
"I am extremely lucky and grateful to be alive.
"I was doing an outdoor instructor course and spent the weekend in Wales doing some rock climbing.
"I came back and was doing some kayaking in the Itchen River, in Southampton, it was the first time I have ever kayaked.
Brave Sam believes the bacteria entered his body through his eyes and nose. Photo: M & Y News Ltd/REX Source: Austral International Press Agency
"I was learning to capsize with a girl who didn't quite have the strength to turn me over so I was capsizing a lot more than others in my group.
"I found out Weil's disease could get in through your eyes, nose and through the scrapes on my hands from climbing — I think that was the cause."
After returning to his job a few days later as a full-time lifeguard he came home from a shift and started throwing up blood.
He contracted a disease from rats urine while kayaking down a river. Photo: M & Y News Ltd/REX Source: Austral International Press Agency
His worried mum dialled 111 who suggested he see a doctor the following day, which then sent him straight to hospital.
Battling Sam added: "While I was in hospital a couple of my friends visited and they said to me 'you look really, really green'.
"While I was on the ward I ate a slice of ham with cheese sauce on it and I began throwing up black sick, it wasn't very nice.
"I was taken into the ITU and had a central line put in my neck, my heart rate was 140 beats per minute just lying down, which is very high.
It was Weil's disease. Photo: M & Y News Ltd/REX Source: Austral International Press Agency
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