![]() Incision and drainage was done it was all that was done. After one week of hospitalization, a large, grotesque abscess was found at the surgical site on her left groin. It wasn’t long before she was fighting for her life in a city hospital. ![]() Soon she complained of extreme weakness, had sporadic fevers and could not urinate. She seemed to recover well, but the wound incision leaked nonstop. In early 2012, mama had a blood clot surgically removed from the femoral artery. ![]() Sepsis is a dire emergency that can kill the young or the old. Unlike heart disease, diabetes or cancer, sepsis is usually the result of something else, like a cut or scrape, surgeries or invasive devices. Well fast forward to now, millions of deaths and many medical negligence cases later, the real truth is coming to light. After all, hospitals and nursing homes are crawling with germs, right? I thought you get old, go into a hospital or nursing home, get the inevitable hospital infection (sepsis) and die. When our grandmother died of sepsis at 84 years old, back in 1990, I assumed it was an old people’s disease. The brutality of sepsis will haunt us for the rest of our lives. My sister and I had barely heard of it, until we lost our beloved mother because of it two years ago. It’s one of the leading causes of death, particularly in hospitals, but most people have never heard of it. ![]()
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