When many people hear the word sepsis, a response to infection, they might think of major surgery or trauma. A local mom is proof that it can stem from the smallest of sources.

It’s been an emotional and physical journey for a Pleasanton mother who lost her hands and feet after she got an infection just days after giving birth last year. Krystina Pacheco has gone through months of intense rehabilitation and physical therapy after she went into septic shock last October.