Jackie: Sepsis Survivor
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2022
- Jackie is a Sepsis Survivor. She shares the symptoms that led her to seek care, her hospital experience, and the effects that she still lives with every day, as well as a special birthday wish for the world.
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Thank u for sharing! I found my Dad frozen in what turned out to be Sepsis last week. He is battling esophageal cancer & Thank God I found him in time & called 911! So scary.. 😢
Happy Birthday, Jackie 🙏🏽🎂🎁🎈🎊
Thank you so much Lynn! ❤️
I hope you have supportive family and friends, too.
It seems like every person who gets this nightmare illness needs helpful people around them afterwards.
I am happy for you, Jackie. Hope your birthday is wonderful. You deserve that!
Andrea thank you so much. ❤️ I do have a very supportive family and a large network of friends. You are so right, it would be so much more difficult, if not impossible, to endure this without any support.
God bless and so grateful you survived. Happy belated birthday!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 going out to you)
It sounds almost exactly my experience with sepsis, except my original surgery was laparoscopic RNY>RNY bariatric revision on 12/21/21. 10 days later, on the afternoon New Years Eve, I was home alone, napping, when I started to cough up blood. I called 911 and was taken by ambulance to my local ER where peritonitis and septic shock were diagnosed. I was airlifted to the hospital where I had my bariatric surgery. I had emergency surgery with a 15 cm mid-line incision. My small intestine had split below the stomach pouch and anastomosis. The surgeon called my brother at 4:20 am saying that they weren't sure I would make it and that he should make the 90 minute trip to the hospital.
I was in Intensive Care for a week and hospitalized for a total of 7 weeks followed by 3 weeks in a rehab facility. During that time I had 3 endoscopic procedures trying to find the leak that was preventing my wound from healing despite wound-vac use. On 2/18/22 I had another surgery during which they found that my colon had been nicked during the emergency surgery. The new surgical wound was left open so that it could heal from within. After that I started to heal quickly and a week later was transferred to rehab, but still had a feeding tube and drain tube "just in case". I rapidly regained strength and mobility and was discharged after 3 weeks, to return home with an open surgical wound which required daily dressing changes. I could not get daily visiting nurse care in my rural community, but I called upon two friends who are retired nurses. They recruited two more retired nurses. The four of them rotated, coming daily to my home to do dressing changes. A week after getting home, the site of the drain tube (long since removed) developed an abscess, which had to be packed. It took three months for the surgical wound to close. I visited the local hospital wound clinic bi-weekly in addition to the daily dressing changes at home.
While I was hospitalized a nurse told me that it often takes a month for every week in hospital before once recovers physically and mentally. That advice was spot on. Now, in mid-September '22, I am finally feeling energetic and completely "myself". I did not lose any organs or limbs, and did not suffer any mental deficits due to my experience with septic shock. I did have a period of profound depression about half-way through my hospital stay, but an increase in my usually antidepressant medication resolved it. I have resumed all my prior physical activities including walking and YMCA pool classes. I lost my belly button (!) and have a long gruesome scar, but am otherwise OK.
If I had not coughed up blood that afternoon when I had laid down to nap, I would have died in my bed. I am incredibly grateful for the prompt diagnosis of septic shock and the decision to return me to the hospital where I had my bariatric surgery. My surgeon's partner, a vascular surgeon, was on duty that night and performed the emergency surgery. The two ER teams saved my life. BTW, I am 74 years old.
Wow Ingrid what an ordeal! 😢 I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that. ❤️ Glad to hear you are recovering. The pool therapy really helped me a lot too. The mental depression is some of the worst!😭 I hope you continue to heal and get stronger! ❤️🙏🏻👍🏻
I wish I had known
How did the original perforation happen?