Aren't you glad this didn't happen to you 75 years ago?
Yes, I'm VERY glad we live in the day and age of modern medicine. My initial EKG was fine (which makes sense, since the cause was non-cardiac), so they started to relax for a minute because they had to wait on bloodwork, but then they went back into overdrive mode once they saw how my blood pressure was changing and that I was complaining about feeling very cold. It was a very bizarre experience and there is almost no chance I would have survived such an infection 75 years ago.