Bethlyemid Guzman

Close to my 35th birthday I was diagnosed with septic shock stage 3 due to a ruptured appendix. (Sepsis and Appendicitis, Sepsis and Septic Shock)

My kidneys had shut down completely and the surgeon said to me “you are the sickest person in the hospital right now”. There was no time to think about anything other than running down to the OR. I made it; six days after I was discharged. It took five weeks to finally feel like my old self physically, but the scars the experience left mentally are deeper than the physical ones; to this day I still can’t say how I feel about it, there will never be enough words.