My mother fell down and couldn’t get back up. We were told she needed emergency surgery due to severe nerve damage and spinal stenosis or she would be paralyzed. We agreed to the surgery. She ended up having surgery on her neck due to the findings on another CT or MRI. She never recovered. My mother was not able to stand on her own or walk. She was bedridden. When she was discharged from the hospital she went to a rehab facility with skilled nursing care. She never improved and then reached her maximum limit of rehab and skilled nursing ... Read Full Story

I didn’t feel good for a long time. I went to the hospital three times but they didn’t take me seriously and sent me away. I had so much pain!
Because they didn’t took me seriously, I started to doubt myself.
But there was so much stress and pain.
Not so many days later the ambulance came and took me to the hospital, they let me be more and more sick, threw up blood. I was in a coma already.
Where the doctors let me threw up blood for two days before they started to do medical research on me.
Because of all this stress, ... Read Full Story

Hello! My name is Haley and I am a proud survivor of septic shock. In January of 2019, I had fallen ill. My temperature reached 102.4. As the week progressed, I began to lose feeling in my left leg. Whilst my body was slowly shutting down, My mom and I took a trip to a pediatric clinic where my muddy urine was mistaken for dehydration. A few doctor’s visits and one blood test later, it was clear I needed to head to the ER immediately. After those long hours in the ER, my memory is blank. February of 2019, I ... Read Full Story

My mother passed away on April 30th, 2024 after 48-hour battle in the hospital with sepsis. My mother started complaining of abdominal pain on April 27th in the afternoon after we went out to lunch. Shortly after we returned home from running errands and grabbing lunch at Kerby’s Coney Island, my mother started vomiting on and off until later in the evening. Initially, she thought, she may have gotten food poisoning. Shortly after midnight on April 28th, my mother passed out getting up to go to the bathroom. She was extremely pale and had no strength to get up. I ... Read Full Story

It started with a urinary tract infection I did not even know I had. (Sepsis and Urinary Tract Infections) That weekend, I lost my appetite and was extremely tired. I went to urgent care the next day, where I was given antibiotics for the UTI. The day after, I felt worse, and went to the ER, where I was given a blood transfusion, along with other medications. I was asked if I wanted to admit to the hospital, and I though the medication would work, so I went home. After 2 days, I woke up one morning and was very ... Read Full Story