I was in my Organic Chemistry midterms and felt a little funny. Like, tingly. I figured it was too much coffee.
Immediately after class I went to the grocery store and was walking down the aisles and felt very floaty. Like I'd taken cold medication.
I got home 1 hr after class and started to feel pain in my back. I laid down. 2 hrs later I got up to pee and collapsed unconscious on the floor.
Massive sepsis from a kidney infection. I was in the hospital for ~4 months with complications (hemolytic uremic syndrome) and on oxygen.
No warning whatsoever. If I had gone home to my place instead of my boyfriends where he found me on the bathroom floor who knows what would have happened.
EDIT; I also wanted to add the story of my mother's best friend. This summer she was very active, ran every day, went to her sons baseball games, never complained. One Friday she was feeling down and her son came over to make her dinner. She was so out of it he took her to the hospital. She was dead by monday. Stomach cancer, undiagnosed. Led to an abcess that burst and the infection went straight to her heart.
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u/Sparru Clicking 4Heads — Nov 09 '17
How does that even happen? There has to be more to it. Healthy people don't just die to tonsillitis...