Sepsis Alliance provides information and resources to help you better understand your or your loved one’s sepsis diagnosis.
Sepsis Alliance provides information and resources to help you better understand your or your loved one’s sepsis diagnosis.
For anyone recently diagnosed with sepsis, this is the place to start.
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.
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.
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.
Sepsis Alliance Connect is the virtual support community for anyone affected by sepsis.
After having a colonoscopy due to minor but long term bleeding, they found I had numerous tumors in my descending and transverse sections of my colon. Because they were in 2 of the 3, they said the whole colon had to be removed, the tumors would appear in the ascending portion within a year. Surgery was done, removed the colon, built a Hartman’s pouch and re- attached my intestine. Just 24hrs after surgery, something was wrong. (Sepsis and Surgery) They had placed me in a ICU unit in an induced coma. It took a couple days but found out 1 ... Read Full Story
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Septic Shock put me in the hospital for a year. (Sepsis and Septic Shock) Hello – Vala H. here. When it comes to sepsis, remember it’s about TIME! Temperature – Infection – Mental Decline – Extremely ill. I wish I had known that when Sepsis overtook me. “Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection. It is a life-threatening medical emergency.” January 21, 2018, I was feeling great during the day. I came home from a meeting at 8 p.m. and was cold and couldn’t get warm, so I went to bed. I slept for 24 hours without getting ... Read Full Story
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My son Mateo went septic a month before his 2nd birthday. He complained of a pain in his knee and after a 6 hour visit to our local hospital with no outcome we took him to to the children’s hospital. They discovered osteomyelitis in his tibia and within hours he was in full septic shock.He had contracted strep A with no clue how he was not sick and he didn’t have any open wounds. (Sepsis and Group A Streptococcus, Sepsis and Septic Shock) He spent the next 5 weeks in the PICU where they did multiple different treatments to save ... Read Full Story
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In September 2023, just 5 weeks postpartum, the worst thing that could have happened to me did. In September, I was having excruciating pain in my nipple with breastfeeding my newborn son and pumping. I had a blister on my nipple. I shrugged this off until a few weeks later I noticed a lump in my breast, a clogged duct. “Great, I have mastitis”. Within 24 hours of the clogged duct, I was violently shaking with body chills and my breasts hurt so bad I couldn’t lay on either side to sleep. (Sepsis and Pregnancy & Childbirth) In the morning ... Read Full Story
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I had an ingrown hair on my tailbone but thought nothing of it I just thought it would go away but I was so wrong. That ingrown hair turned into a cyst which had gotten infected and then turned into sepsis. (Sepsis and Bacterial Infections) I didn’t know it though until it turned it septic shock. This took place August 19th 2023. My fiance came home from a trip and found me acting odd. I do not recall any of this, I just remember saying I was very hot and he then called an ambulance for me because I kept ... Read Full Story
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