Carol Vorderman · @carolvorders
4th Jul 2019 from TwitLonger
Sepsis strikes fast... my sepsis story
#sepsis On a Saturday evening in 2004 I was rushed to hospital in London. I'd been suffering badly for a few years from gall bladder pain. I'd had a bad bout of it, but this time nothing I usually did to calm it down was working. After 2/3 days of excrutiating pain I knew something was different. I felt as though I was slipping away somehow and asked my family to get me to hospital. They did. I think it was by ambulance but I was slipping in and out of consciousness by that time. And thank God the doctor running A&E that night was aware of sepsis. He was Dr David Nott who recognised the symptoms, he rushed me onto heavy antibiotics. A long time later, he told me my organs were beginning to close down and I was about 6 hours from death. Sepsis strikes fast, VERY fast, but it is curable if it's recognised. It took nearly a week before Dr Nott was able to operate on my gall bladder. It was still hugely swollen and that was a 5 hour operation. Another week in hospital and then I went back home. I can't agree more with those who want to raise awareness of this killer @UKSepsisTrust ... thanks to quick intervention my children still had their mother, my mother still had her daughter and I still had a chance to live