Sepsis Alliance provides information and resources to help you better understand your or your loved one’s sepsis diagnosis.
Sepsis Alliance provides information and resources to help you better understand your or your loved one’s sepsis diagnosis.
For anyone recently diagnosed with sepsis, this is the place to start.
Some sepsis survivors recover completely and resume their lives, while others may struggle to cope with enduring effects of their illness. Here you can find information to help you navigate post-sepsis life.
When your loved one becomes ill with sepsis, you may not know what sepsis is or how to help them. Here are resources that may help you navigate this complex and difficult journey.
Losing a loved one to sepsis can leave you with grief as well as many questions. Here are answers to some of the questions you may have after losing a loved one to sepsis.
Sepsis Alliance Connect is the virtual support community for anyone affected by sepsis.
In January, 2019, I fell on the ice and severed my femur, which resulted in a hip replacement. Six weeks following that, same hip get slammed by a malfunctioning elevator door, almost knocking me to the ground. From that point on, my leg was constantly draining what seemed to be lymphatic fluid. The doctors input on this, “I’ve never seen this before. I guess some people are extra juicy”. This went on for weeks, until there developed an infection. Now 8 weeks of antibiotics with a PICC at home. Continued pain off and on… for 4 years! Sometimes so bad, ... Read Full Story
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As a 19-year-old, I never thought I’d get sepsis. I initially thought it was bad asthma since the it started getting colder and with college and work, I thought maybe I was pushing myself too hard. It was Thanksgiving break and I was at work when I first started feeling out of breath. It felt like asthma, I didn’t feel sick. It wasn’t until 4 days later that I started to get a fever and my lungs felt like they were being weighed down. I couldn’t eat and I started to throw up throughout the night. It was the night ... Read Full Story
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Started December 15 when at a business Xmas party, all of a sudden could not stop shaking. Everyone wanted to call an ambulance but being a stubborn male went home. The next day my knee was in so much pain could not walk and we called ambulance. Was quickly put through as my condition was getting worse. I was having heart failure. The next 10 days I was comatose. I learned later they called my family to come in as they did not think I would survive. When I came out of it. I could not walk after many tests ... Read Full Story
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I was unaware that I caught a kidney infection after my high school prom in 2023. It wasn’t until I had a horrible pain in my side I mistook for hunger pangs that I knew something was wrong. I brushed it off and hoped the pain would be gone after a good night’s sleep. That next morning, I woke up disoriented, and in unimaginable pain. My mom rushed me to the ER, and I woke up in a hospital bed. They had told me I had a kidney infection and sepsis. I hadn’t heard of something like that ever being ... Read Full Story
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In April 2024 went into severe septic shock from bowel rupture. (Sepsis and Perforated Bowel) Was on ventilator for 8 days, went into liver failure, heart failure, Afib, and renal failure requiring dialysis. I then develop PRES syndrome and lost my vision. Was in hospital for 7 weeks. All organs have returned to normal and my vision is back. I currently have post sepsis syndrome but blessed to have made it through such a critical health crisis. Read Full Story
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