sepsis

Jason Watkins reveals he felt ‘angry’ and ‘cheated’ after his daughter Maude, two, died of sepsis

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Jason Watkins has spoken out about losing his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Maude to sepsis on New Year’s Day in 2011. The Crown actor, 53, revealed he was ‘angry for a long time’ at fate for taking the child he shared with his wife Clara Francis. In 2010 a persistent cough and consequent respiratory problems prompted two … Read more

‘Dream daughter’, 17, was found dead in her bed by her mother after sepsis, inquest hears 

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Girl, 17, was found dead in her bed by her mother after suffering from sepsis that she had thought was just food poisoning, inquest hears Tina Way, 17, was found dead at her home in Cardiff, Wales on July 20 last year In the days before she died Ms Way had been on holiday at … Read more

Mother loses her hands, feet, nose, lips and tip of her tongue to sepsis following attack

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A mother lost her hands, feet, nose, lips and tip of her tongue to sepsis after she was bitten between her thumb and index finger by a mongoose. Shaninlea Visser, 36, from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, cleaned the wound after she was attacked at her former boss’s home and thought nothing of it. The mother, … Read more

Brave mother had her lower legs amputated due to sepsis after childbirth to her stillborn son

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A brave mother had her lower legs amputated due to sepsis after a life-threatening labour during which she gave birth to her stillborn baby. Callie Colwick, 30, from McKinney, Texas, suffered from placenta accreta while pregnant with her son Quinn, a rare serious condition with major complications. At 15 weeks, she and her husband Kevin, 30, were … Read more

Mother had to hear her family say their final goodbyes while battling sepsis

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A mother heard her family say their final goodbyes because of her battle with sepsis which saw her lose all of her toes, some fingers and her right hand. Racheal Acuff, of Missouri, drove herself to hospital in June 2018 when she noticed blood in her urine – a sign of a kidney infection. Doctors … Read more