An old friend died very suddenly yesterday of sepsis. He was a completely healthy 60-year-old, active, fun-loving, committed volunteer, no health issues. Apparently he contracted some sort of small infection which morphed into sepsis before anyone realized what was going on. One day he was fine, the next in ICU with organ failure, the next day dead.
So sad, and a bit freaky considering that I'm constantly being warned about the risk of sepsis and reminded every time I see the doc or nurse to hit the ER at any sign of infection -- I know many of us are in the same place.
Just seems so unfair that it happened to him, you know what I mean?
Gin
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