Carol Riley

Survivor

Hi, I went to the hospital for congestive heart failure. Three months later, sick as a dog. Urinaray tract infection. (Sepsis and Urinary Tract Infections) I got sepsis. Actually septic shock and was in a coma for a month, came out bat shit crazy and they put me in a coma a few more weeks.

This was hurricane Mathew in the US. I was worried about my husband in another county with sepsis caused by an infection in his artificial hip. Finally they let me out of the nursing home. I still didn’t know how to drive and numbers didn’t exist. I don’t know dates time it took me three months to dial the phone. Anyway I am now the sole supporter and sometimes I have to call to get directions home. They have said since all my organs shut down, I have global brain damage and this is as good as it gets. I do qualify for disability, because I have to do something to eat and keep our home. This sucks.  All I can do is pray. Sorry for the typos. God bless you all.

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