Sepsis

[John Arton]

Today a conservative MP, who 8 months ago had both his hands and his feet being removed after suffering from sepsis, went back into the house of commons for the first time since recovering from his surgery. He was greeted by prolonged applause from all members, (applause is not allowed in the house of commons), this happened just before PMQ's after which both sides carried on kicking lumps out of each other, verbally accusing each other of all sorts of accusations on any and all subjects.
sepsis is a terrible disease and can often go undiagnosed until it is too late.
I only posted this as I recall one of our members of this site had suffered from sepsis but it had been caught early and they had made a complete recovery. Cannot recall exactly who it was but was it our gray Marian?
Rgds
J.A

[Tony Taylor]

Today a conservative MP, who 8 months ago had both his hands and his feet being removed after suffering from sepsis, went back into the house of commons for the first time since recovering from his surgery. He was greeted by prolonged applause from all members, (applause is not allowed in the house of commons), this happened just before PMQ's after which both sides carried on kicking lumps out of each other, verbally accusing each other of all sorts of accusations on any and all subjects.
sepsis is a terrible disease and can often go undiagnosed until it is too late.
I only posted this as I recall one of our members of this site had suffered from sepsis but it had been caught early and they had made a complete recovery. Cannot recall exactly who it was but was it our gray Marian?
Rgds
J.A

John, I had it about 10 years ago but dont recall posting on here.
I had been in Ravenna on business and despite being in November I got seriously bitten by mozzies. The bites all cleared up bar one which caused some irritation, but was not intolerable. Two weeks after my return I was busy at home but by about 4pm became incredibly tired and had to just sit down and sleep; by 8pm my wife knew something was very wrong and took me to A&E; while sitting waiting for triage my leg started to itch badly and when I lifted my trouser leg I could see the red literally travelling up. Fortunately I got called in after 10 mins. where the triage nurse took my vitals and a look at my leg and instead of sending me back in to the waiting room I was whisked away into a cubicle. The next three days were lost to me as I was totally out of it, I recall surfacing once or twice but only recall everything being dark and I thought I had been shunted into a basement room to be left to snuff it.
Things started to come back to me gradually and I was put on a "normal" ward, where I remained for another week as I had a chest infection.
I did not realise the seriousness of my condition until the day before I was discharged when a student nurse came to my bed and asked permission to look at my notes, which was not a problem for me.
So while perusing she commented that I was 15 or whatever when admitted so I asked her what that meant and she told me it was a scale by which they measured the severity of a patients condition.
So what does my score mean then and she replied - critical; that is when it hits home.
So, if several people had not been so observant and quick acting, I might not have been here today.

[j.sabourn]

Beleive but not sure ,the shipmasters medical book described Sepsis as blood poisoning and the old method for recovery was persistent blood transfusions . Today however more modern ideas are just as effective. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Had a nephew in Uk who contracted that.
Thankfully he received good treatment in time so no damage done.
But if is a threatening condition if not caught quickly.