BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND — A care assistant was killed by a rare flesh-eating disease that developed after she was injured during a sex game. <br /> <br />Mother-of-one Katie Widdowson, 24, hurt her left wrist when she was tied up by her boyfriend Dean Smith during some New Year's Eve bedroom frolics. <br /> <br />The next day, Katie went to the Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield to get checked out. Doctors told her she had a sprained wrist and sent her home with some painkillers. <br /> <br />But Katie was in fact suffering from the deadly bacterial infection necrotizing fasciitis, the Telegraph reported. <br /> <br />Katie later sent her boyfriend a photo of her wrist, saying she couldn't move it and was in a lot of pain. <br /> <br />The next day she developed burn marks on her arm. An ambulance was called but it was too late. Katie had a heart attack on the way to the hospital and never recovered. <br /> <br />A coroner told an inquest into Katie's death that her death was avoidable. She should have been kept in hospital when she first reported her symptoms and then undergone major surgery. <br /> <br />Katie's family now plans to sue the hospital for negligence.
