Alexis Lewis, originally from Stockbridge in Hampshire, married his high school girlfriend Lucy Townsend in 2013.

Since then, the happy couple has owned the Greyhound and the King’s Arms pubs in neighboring Lockerley while also raising their two-year-old son, Sam

He was having the time of his life up until the moment that tragedy struck. One day he came down with a cold, but he dismissed it as nothing more than the “man flu.”

As Alex Lewis said to Metro, “Because we owned and lived in a pub and came into contact with lots of different people, I assumed it was a seasonal cold and thought it started as man flu.”

He thought resting for a day would fix everything, but things deteriorated to the point that he had a temperature and was urinating blood.

It was obvious from the reaction of onlookers to his skin that it wasn’t the flu.

On November 17, 2013, he was transported to a hospital in Winchester, England with a severe case of streptococcal infection (type A), which had spread throughout his body.

There was a war going on inside of him between the sepsis, shock syndrome, septicemia, and necrotizing fascitis that he had contracted.

His wife, Lucy, feared she was about to lose him to death, and it was a difficult time for the whole family.

She told The Guardian “I called an ambulance, and within eight minutes, they were there. At the hospital, we went straight into resuscitation, and I was told to say goodbye. His kidneys were shutting down, and they were going to put him on life support.”

His prospects of survival were estimated at 3% due to the fact that virtually his entire body had become black