James Wilkinson

Survivor

In February 2019 I was dumped in an emergency room and left for dead. I slipped into a coma in the emergency room and would find out later that I had hepatitis A, I was in full liver failure and urinating liver bile, and I had sepsis. (Sepsis and Liver Disease) I woke up in the ICU. I don’t know how long I was in the coma, my memory is fuzzy.

I do know that I had sepsis for 7 days. When I woke I didn’t know anything not even my name. I thought it was 2017 and the only question I got right was who the president was. In the last 3 years, I have lost all family and friends ended up in San Antonio, Texas from Clearwater, Florida. I’m not sure what’s happening anymore. Clients will ask me to do something that I have very detailed memories of having already done. Doing my job isn’t as easy as it used to be and I have more trouble concentrating.

I get frustrated very easily and lose my temper. I struggle to make a living and at this point I honestly don’t know if all of the people that I know are real. Sometimes I think maybe I never woke up at all and this is all a coma dream. It feels like it’s getting worse. I don’t sleep for days at a time, I think I know all these people but they’re never really there. I don’t know if anything is real anymore and I have no idea how to find out.

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