Dave Coppard

14th of July 2017, around 7:30 PM in the evening, I started shaking violently. Realising something was not right, I rang the emergency services, 999, living in the UK. The paramedics immediately realised something was drastically wrong and rush me into the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. On the trip there I started to lose my voice, breathing became difficult, arriving at the hospital, I had lost consciousness, and remained so intermittently for approximately 2 weeks.

A catheter was fitted, and one was inserted up my nose to drain the poison in my stomach. I received large doses of antibiotics and was completely unaware until being discharged 6 weeks later from hospital that I had diverticulitis, which triggered sepsis, attacking the major organs affected my heart, also pneumonia.  (Sepsis and Pneumonia) My thanks goes to the quick action of the paramedics, and the skill of the consultants and surgeons, and kind help of the nurses in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital Shropshire England. Had it not been for their care I would have not been alive today, and at the age of 83 consider myself extremely lucky, having been left with only feeling tired, and owing to the medication has affected my taste. Other than that, I have followed precisely instructions given by the medical professionals, and understand that it can take subject to the individual person between 6 months and 18 months before one is fully recovered.

 

Update December 31, 2018:

Further to my last story, am still on the road to recovery, please see me enjoying life playing my organ, possibly give hope to other .

God Bless & Happy New Year.

Dave