Patients & Family

Sepsis Alliance provides information and resources to help you better understand your or your loved one’s sepsis diagnosis.

Diagnosed with Sepsis

For anyone recently diagnosed with sepsis, this is the place to start.

Sepsis Basics

Sepsis Survivors

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.

Survivor Resources

Caregivers

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.

Caregiver Resources

Lost Loved Ones

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.

Resources for Loved Ones

Sepsis Alliance Connect

Sepsis Alliance Connect is the virtual support community for anyone affected by sepsis.

Sepsis Alliance Connect

Faces of Sepsis

Jacqueline Mayes-Pehl

Survivor

I had what I thought was the flu for 3 weeks. During the day I felt fine but at night it was bad. One night I took my temperature and it was 104°F but apparently I didn’t want to bother anyone so I went to sleep. The next day, I now recall taking a UTI test at home (I didn’t remember this until I was healed) and it immediately said positive without having to wait. I did nothing. (Sepsis and Urinary Tract Infections) When my husband came home from work he said I had told him to go to the ... Read Full Story

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Andrea Hamblett

Survivor, Survivor

My story starts on the 19/08/2021, I was out shopping with my twin grandchildren and my daughter, we decided to go for dinner. I had a KFC. I remember eating it and something was stuck in my throat. I went to the toilets to try and move it by trying to be sick. I couldn’t move it so me and my daughter went to A&E. They did an X-ray on my throat and she said she could see the bone so she was giving me something to help move it, I was then sent home. I then took to my ... Read Full Story

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Valli Williams

Survivor, Survivor, Survivor

Actually I’m a survivor and this is a tribute. In Jan 2020 my father was having surgery scheduled in March to fix the infection in his foot from a previous surgery. (Sepsis and Surgery) He went into the hospital Feb 9,2020 and the last time I saw him there was Feb 14, 2020, when he told me what song to sing at his funeral (he loved to hear me sing) and told me he wasn’t going to make it out of the hospital. The infection traveled to his blood and gave him heart failure and eventually kidney failure. He ended ... Read Full Story

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Melissa Adams

Survivor, Survivor, Survivor, Survivor

I was two years old in 1971, the first time that I sepsis so I don’t remember it at all but I still have a huge scar on my left hip from my surgery. It was arthritic sepsis in my left hip from a strep infection and it left lifelong debilitating effects on me. (Sepsis and Bacterial Infections) The doctors told my parents I would probably have a normal early childhood but to expect physical problems later in my childhood. They were right. By the age of ten my left leg was 3/4″ shorter than my right leg and I ... Read Full Story

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Tonie Rojas

Survivor, Survivor, Survivor, Survivor, Survivor

When I was 21 in 2018 I had what was supposed to be a “minor intervention.”  Everything seemingly went well, except I was in extreme pain. I told everyone around me that the pain was unbearable and that I was nauseous all the time. My family thought I was just being weak, I even went to get my stitches removed and told my doctor about it. He brushed it off because my mother had told him that I was overreacting. A week later, while in severe pain, I started hallucinating and then threw up blood. My sister immediately insisted they ... Read Full Story

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