TORY MP Craig Mackinlay says he is lucky to be alive after losing both his hands and feet to sepsis.
The South Thanet MP - who now has four prosthetic limbs - said he went "a very strange blue" and was placed into an induced coma.
After waking up he found his limbs were completely black "like pharaohs hands that had just been dug up".
Speaking for the first time since the horror last year, he said he plans to return to parliament and be known as the "bionic MP".
The 57-year-old told the BBC: "They managed to save above the elbows and above the knees.
"So you might say I'm lucky."
Craig began feeling unwell on September 27 and thought it may be Covid but a test came back negative.
Despite being badly sick overnight he thought nothing until worried pharmacist wife Kati tested his blood pressure and temperature.
By the morning Craig's arms were stone cold and Kati couldn't feel a pulse and he was rushed to hospital.
He recalled: "Within about half an hour I went this very very strange blue... my whole body, top to bottom, ears everything - blue.
"That is a septic shock. It is when you are having a very severe septic event."
In hospital he was put into an induced coma for 16 days and when he came around he said his feet and hands were "black" and "like plastic".
"Black, desiccating, clenched. Just dead. Your legs and arms are dead", he said.