Martha Mumenthaler
On January 5, 2015, at 3am, I woke up with intense stomach pain, nausea and back pain. It was different than anything I’d ever felt and I had a fever of 101. Went to the ER. Threw up as soon as I walked in. They ran tests and gave me one IV. Then at 5 am they discharged me. I went home and my mom laid next to me while I was unconscious. Woke me up to make me drink but I kept throwing up. So at 8 when my fever had been 104 for 14 hours, she tried to pick me up with my brother and bring me back. But I was so dehydrated I couldn’t move. Called 911.
They gave me an IV and such. By the time we got to the hospital all my other veins had collapsed, tried multiple spots. Found one on the same arm as the other one. But my blood pressure was 70/35. And my heart was pumping blood to fast. The doctor wanted to put an IV in my neck but I was in too much pain and didn’t want it. By the time I agreed (2 min later) it collapsed. So they told me I need a central line. I refused and he told me I could die. So they put it. Ran more tests. Sent me to the ICU for more observation and such. Still having fevers and everything. Still in pain.
They have given me a ton of morphine though and anti nausea meds. So I was diagnosed with: fever, sepsis, septic shock, low electrolytes, b12, virtually no potassium (so I got IV full of it) gastroenteritis, UTI, pneumonia, flu, and rotavirus. I couldn’t tell if I was peeing or what half the time. After 12 days in the ICU they released me and I was put in a different room for another three days and then finally discharged.
