Posted on 04/05/2022 3:03:22 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Sadie Kemp, 34, developed sepsis in December and has been in the hospital for months. The hardest part is being away from her sons, who are 17 and 2. This is her story, as told to Kelly Burch. Every day I count down to the evenings. That's when my doctors let me out of the hospital for a few hours so I can go to my parents' house and visit my sons, who are 17 and 2.
I've been in the hospital since the day after Christmas, when I nearly died of sepsis. All of my fingers have been amputated, and my legs will be later this year. Those evenings with my family are a bright spot that keeps my mental and emotional health up during the toughest year of my life.
A life-changing infection This journey started on Christmas Day. I had pain in my abdomen, which I later learned was caused by a kidney infection. Like many moms, I brushed the pain aside. Even when it was excruciating, I didn't get help. Doctors say that by the time I got to the hospital, I was an hour away from dying, from my kids not having their mother.
I was put in a coma for 11 days. When I woke up, I realized my whole life had changed. Because of the sepsis, doctors needed to amputate all 10 of my fingers. My hands were sown into my abdomen while they recovered from skin grafts. My right hand is still inside my abdomen, and my left hand is nearly unrecognizable. My fingers are gone, and what is left looks like a mitten — or a shark.
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I wonder if she got an infection from tattoos?
https://covid19.onedaymd.com/2021/11/math-protocol-for-covid-19-and-dr-paul.html
MATH+ Protocol for COVID-19 and Dr Paul Marik
- December 13, 2021
The MATH+ Protocol Story
January, 2020. Dr. Paul E. Marik, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, creates a COVID-19 hospital treatment protocol for the medical school. Called the EVMS protocol, it is based on Dr. Marik’s safe, effective treatment protocol for sepsis — the famous “Marik Cocktail” of intravenous Hydrocortisone, Ascorbic Acid, and Thiamine (HAT).
CITRIS-ALI, a large double-blind placebo controlled trial of high dose ascorbic acid (AA) in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) found that mortality decreased and ICU length-of-stay were markedly reduced in the treatment group.
The reasons for the lack of immediate adoption of this therapy in ARDS can only be explained by the fact that the original primary outcome analysis failed to account for all the early excess deaths in the control group, where no Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score was assigned to the patients who died. A subsequent letter to the editor demanded an analysis accounting for the early deaths. The study authors complied, and reported the primary outcome of SOFA score to be statistically significantly decreased at 96 hours. Thus CITRIS-ALI, although inexplicably initially portrayed as a negative trial, was later found to be profoundly positive in terms of achieving its primary outcome and important secondary outcomes.
January/February, 2020. Dr. Marik discusses the EVMS protocol with Dr. Pierre Kory, then Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Kory shares his interest in the research and treatment of intravenous AA (ascorbic acid) in septic shock and ARDS with the hopes of finding a reduced need for fluids, vasopressor support, and intubation in COVID patients. Their discussions lead to a decision on a more aggressive dosing strategy for both AA and anticoagulation, to optimally counteract the hyper-inflammation and hyper-coagulability they and others have seen at the bedside and from the COVID outbreaks in China and Italy. The decision on anti-coagulation type and dosing is also heavily influenced by early investigations done using sophisticated clotting assays by Dr. Kory and his group of seasoned critical care doctors and expert hematologists. . .” . . .
National Health Service -- where everything is free. Which is to say, "You can't have that".
We don’t know how to treat sepsis. Shameful. Dr Paul Marik (South African trained) is world renowned for treating it with intravenous vitamin C (amongst other drugs) and has been highly successful. Inexpensive, which is why it has not been widely accepted by the US pharmaco-mafia medical establishment.
Mayo clinic study discussion about why it was problematic
https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras/ras-central/blog/2020/yun-cantley-vitamin-c
Wow. Yes It is.
I was stationed with a fellow and he picked up a virus and within six months he was a quadriplegic, surgeons had to remove all of his limbs.
My sister had a toe amputated after she nicked a cuticle trimming her toenails.
I use polysporin and keep any nicks & cuts clean and covered.
She had excruciating pain, yet waited till she was one hour from death to seek help. I’m surprised.
Yes, terrifying. I am sorry for the suffering she has endured, but if she was in such excruciating pain, why not go to the doc?
Wondering myself what brought on the sepsis to begin with.
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