Carolyn Hall

Our mother was diagnosed with sepsis in February of 2015 and died only a few days after, on February 9th, at the young age of 57, due to an undetected infection in her intestines.

On December 23rd 2013, our mother had an elective procedure. Following the procedure, she began a period of frequent ER, hospital, and rehabilitation center visits, too numerous to count. Doctors results were low potassium, low protein, low blood pressure, anemia, just to name a few. Never was it stated that she had an infection in her body.
Leading up to her passing, she frequently had good days and bad days. Never any symptoms that persisted on a regular or in a consistent pattern to pinpoint anything, at least in our opinion. She even had a home health services.

It wasn’t until her last hospital visit in February of 2015 that we learned of sepsis. Before then, we never even heard of it. After doing a little research, the signs were there, plain as day, since November of 2014, but it remained undetected or diagnosed.

What baffles our minds is how can an illness so deadly go unheard of by the general public? How is it that over 250,000 people per year in the United States die from sepsis; more than prostate cancer, AIDS, and breast cancer combined? Sepsis is a silent killer that makes a loud noise, but not loud enough!

To many she was Cookie, Ms. Hall, MeMe, but to us, she was simply MOM. We miss you.
We love you forever, we like you for always, as long as we’re living, our mommy you’ll be!

Source: Shreva Hall and AnnTwanette Chase (Carolyn's daughters)