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.
It wasn’t my intention to pray, but as I rocked back and forth on my knees with my elbows stretched up the side of my bed, that’s how it would have appeared, and that is exactly when I realized I was in trouble. I had been sick for a couple of days with nausea, and a general unwell feeling but this day was worse than ever. I was alone in my bedroom with my children in their rooms doing the things teenagers usually do when their parents aren’t hovering. I grabbed my notebook and started writing from my position on ... Read Full Story
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In March 2024, only a week after moving to a different state, I developed the worst pain of my life on the right side of my abdomen. I knew something was wrong, maybe my appendix, but didn’t know what so I went to the ER. They did a CT and ultrasound, but nothing abnormal came up. They figured it was my first kidney stone, gave me some pain meds, and sent me home to pass it. Within an hour of being back home I spiked a fever, started vomiting profusely, and was fetal on the bathroom floor in so much ... Read Full Story
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I had surgery a few months ago and about two to three weeks out I was having post-op pain. I did some research and found it is common to still have the type of pain I was experiencing weeks after surgery, so I didn’t think much of it at the time. The situation quickly evolved. I started having bladder pain and called my surgeon’s office and requested antibiotics, because I knew I had a UTI, likely from the catheter they used intraoperatively. The nurse at the office told me if I don’t feel better within a few days, or I ... Read Full Story
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Sepsis saved my life. What?! Hear me out. I was a school teacher for 20 years, giving 110% of myself to my career, district, and most importantly, my students. I spent evenings, weekends, holidays, and summers recovering. Frequent illness, being the type A, minorly OCD, personality with a need for control, led me down many roads of fitness and nutrition programs in order to keep my head above water along the journey. I even left for a year, roughly halfway through my career, due to constant illness and burn-out, only to return to the classroom, I felt it was my ... Read Full Story
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I had what I thought was a cold. I just took cough medicine until the next day I started having chest pains and heart palpitations. At first I thought it would go away. People thought I was overreacting until something told me this doesn’t feel right. I became breathless and called for an ambulance. They didn’t have any available for four hours so I used the little strength I had to get an Uber to the emergency services. When I got there I was quickly admitted the last thing I remember was being told I had pneumonia and being taken ... Read Full Story
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