Judy Key Thomas

My mom, Judy Key Thomas, passed away on March 5, 2013, from sepsis. She was only 51. She left behind her mother, sister, husband, 2 daughters, a son and a grand daughter. The doctors can’t tell us how or when she got sepsis. All we know is that she was just fine in the days leading up to to her last day.

If you ask anyone that knew my mom, they would say she was the funniest most caring person you had ever met. She loved people and her career as a dental hygienist, but above all else her family was most important to her. She loved being a wife, a mom and a grandma. As we come up on the 3-year anniversary of her passing, I would love to share her story to help educate people on sepsis.

Our family did not know signs of symptoms of sepsis when we needed to. Today, I am 28, my sister is 24, my brother is 18 and preparing to graduate high school and play baseball on a full ride scholarship in college, and my daughter, her grand daughter, is 5 and preparing to go to kindergarten. We all miss her very much each day, we keep her memory alive by participating annually in the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, FL, and we have an endowment in her memory at the University of Tennessee -Memphis. If her story can help educate one person about sepsis then that would be wonderful.

Source: by Tiffany Cline (Judy's daughter)