Kay Hureaux

My story begins with an all over bad feeling the week of 12-8-07. Somehow I managed to work in a fog. I last went to work on a Friday, but was freezing and very thirsty at the same time. I went home got into bed and the rest is a fog. I woke up in ICU with bilateral pneumonia, leading to respiratory failure. (Sepsis and Pneumonia).

I was put in an induced coma and ventilator. I began communicating with people in the past like stepping over a line. The entire stay was very bizzare, to say the least. Some where in the back of my mind I knew I could not last too many days in the condition I was. My body had atrophied to the point where I had no way of moving. My mind was even worse. I was seeing and hearing things that were not even of this world. I made a family member stay with me at night so the demonic things would not be able to kill me.

I was so weak I would just stay in bed. But still the horrible things would visit me every night I have really not much memory left of many things.

I no longer sleep without drugs. I am depressed and angry because I can’t really carry on a conversation.

I applied for disability insurance but was denied. I would like someone to explain to me how I am suppose to carry on with my life. I would encourage any feedback. (Sepsis and Post-Sepsis Syndrome)