Amanda's Story - Maternal Sepsis
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2020
- Six weeks after giving birth to her son, Amanda developed an unusual rash and severe stomach pain. She thought she might be having a reaction to antibiotics, but her symptoms quickly worsened. Her husband rushed her to the hospital where it was determined that Amanda was battling sepsis. In honor of Maternal Sepsis Week, Amanda is bravely sharing her story to help us raise sepsis awareness.
To learn more about maternal sepsis and how you can help save moms, visit www.MaternalSepsisWeek.org.
To learn more about sepsis, visit www.sepsis.org.
To share your sepsis story, visit www.facesofsepsis.org
So happy that you persevered against sepsis. My story started while I was visiting a friend in another city and was feeling rather "off" on the day I arrived. We were doing a lot of canning of vegetable and I was having trouble processing recipes and measurements. This went on for two days. Then I began experiencing severe lethargy along with diarrhea. The next day the vomiting started (I suspected food poisoning) and I couldn't eat anything for 3 days. My friend took me to the ER. I was admitted with a very erratic heart rate and low blood pressure. They did blood tests and a chest x-ray and determined that I had pneumonia (I had no coughing or labored breathing) and sepsis. They began several antibiotics and fluids. Then my heart went into A-Fib and they performed a cardio-inversion where they stopped my heart and then shocked it back into a normal rhythm. That worked for one day and then I had to have another surgery, an ablation of my heart. And some how, I also became a diabetic thru it all. After 9 days in the hospital, I came out very weak and having feelings of exhaustion after minimal exertion. Four months later and I'm still experiencing brain fog and tiredness along with nausea from the diabetes meds. After reading all of the posts by you and other survivors, I feel so lucky to have come thru my sepsis with minor issues. Thanks to all of you for sharing your experiences.
Thank you for sharing your story.
My baby had sepsis at 10 month. A Salmonella went to his bloodstream. Doctors thought it was a virus but I was like no no no, something is not right. They did a blood panel and were going to send us back home but I told them that I will wait for the results there. They admitted us and 12 hours later, the horrible results came back. I am an anxious person but it's the first time that my anxiety worked for something, because they caught it early, my baby didn't go in shock or in intensive care. Now, he is 13 months, he is walking, laughing. He does get sick pretty easy but he is recuperating positively.
We have to trust our gut instinct as mothers and that is exactly what you did. You saved your baby from sepsis shock and death. God is great 🙏
You gave the best advice I’ve heard anyone say-just go-if you think something is wrong, just go!!
Thank you for telling everyone about your experience, and your baby is beautiful! Much luck folks!❤️
good for you Amanda you have a husband who loves and did everything for you.. Love endures. God bless you family.
Amanda, you are amazing! Thank you for sharing your story. I am so grateful you survived. 💖
I lost my Dad to sepsis in 2016. I had septic shock and sepsis in 1985 when i lost my son. I had to be induced after ultrasound showed no heartbeat. I came so close to death. Part of me didnt want to live but other part of me fought. I thank God for Dr. Reddi who stayed with me.
Wanted to like this video more than once. Just a beautiful family.
He is a gorgeous, gorgeous little guy!
If you need to get to hospital real quickly turn your hazard lights on. So that shows other drivers its an emergency
I had sever sepsis shock when I was pregnant with my son. I kept feeling really dizzy, I would tell my doctor something is wrong. She told me to stop calling her. I went to work one day and I felt so sick that I had to keep sitting down, I told my boss I had to leave. I went home and my mom and husband told me they were taking me to the doctors, they had to force me to get up I was 6 months pregnant and I didn't have any energy left. I got to the walk in clinic they thought I had the flu but decided to do a culture to see what grows. Not even 8 hours later they called my mom told her to get me to the hospital that they would be waiting for me. I get there and they put a line into my jugular, rushed me to ICU. I was so scared they found ecoli in my blood I would of been dead that day. I got so bad I had to be put on life support, and I had to be awake the whole time because I was pregnant, it was so painful and I had a tube down my throat. They kept telling me I might die, the whole thing was traumatic to say the least. I also had my baby to worry about. I spent 10 days in ICU. They never told me what caused my septic shock, but I had a really bad UTI shortly before all this happened. My husband thought I was gonna die he didn't leave my side when ever he could be by me. I have sever PTSD from this and everyone around me just wanted me to be all happy again, but I suffer with really bad anxiety and I am terrified of getting pregnant again. My doctor was very rude to me, even after she came to the hospital she never said sorry for not believing you. Sepsis is NO JOKE.
Chaslily hope, thank you for sharing your story! So happy you are alive and I hope you are recovering well. Wishing you well with your future pregnancies
Chaslily, that dr should be sued and reported to the medical board. Maybe that would diminish her arrogance and rudeness in the face of her unsurpassed incompetence.
I hope to God you meant to say, "My FORMER doctor was very rude to me,..." at the end there. I had a very bad experience w/a doc when I had to have knee surgery at 15 years old. It was phsycially hard, but now I don't hold doc's up to any kind of special standard and that has benefitted me MANY times since that surgery! Very glad to hear you are ok now. And always remember: docs are just people too (no matter what THEY think, LOL).
@@purselmer5931 And as an ER dr myself, I am horrified at the incompetence I see around me. I always accompany my family and loved ones to important visits esp with new docs or ER’s. I made the above comment that this OB dr should have been taken to the cleaners if this unfolded the way she tells it. You are absolutely correct. Do not put anybody up on a pedestal, and remember the guy who graduated at the bottom of his medical school class is still called dr.
@@kkdoc7864 Exactly. Dag, I sure wish I had an ER doc to accompany me! You are a good person to do that and I'm sure it must take a load of worry off the loved ones you accompany. Cheers!
Thank you for sharing your story of courage and love for one another
U r very lucky!! God bless u & ur family
That was a cute baby and glad she made it
Stories like this inspire me to become a doctor ❤
I became septic 6 weeks after knee replacement. As a nurse I knew I should see a dr after my incision started to drain. Took me 5 days to get into dr. Went in and was told I was fine. I asked if I should be on antibiotics and I insisted she give me prescription. I got home and collapsed as I got out of car. Husband helped me up and said I was ok. Got into house and collapsed again. Husband called paramedics. Went to hospital ER where I had
Worked. A dr friend was on duty and talked to my knee surgeon who said I was fine and come to his Ofc at 7am next day. By this time My temperature was 103 and my dr friend would not let me leave. My husband had gone home. Ended up being transferred to larger hospital. Once there I remember nothing. I remember being asked if I agreed to surgery. A person standing next to me said to me say yes. So I did. The person ended up being my infectious disease dr. I remember nothing for next 3 days. I did recover after 3 months of IV antibiotics at home. To this day 4 years later still have heart issues related to sepsis and have balance problems at times. It was a nightmare
What a garbage support system!! I hope you've ditched them all and are now surrounded with people who actually care about you.
Never drive someone to the hospital. Always call an ambulance. They can start treatment more quickly and get thru traffic faster.
Are you for real?
My problem with this, is that everybody acts like it happened out of the blue. Sepsis occurs after the immune system can no longer fight off an existing infection, and it then enters the bloodstream.
Although it can happen out of the blue. Mine was 6 weeks after delivering my second child. I had been to my regular doctor and the ER twice because I knew something was wrong. Muscle cramping, low blood pressure, rapid heart rate, a muscle in my back sticking straight out and harder than a rock. Doctors ignored my symptoms for 6 weeks! It wasn’t until I collapsed at home and all my muscles had begun to tighten up so much, my hands were curled in and I couldn’t get them to move. After an ambulance took me back to same ER, did the proper blood culture tests get done and revealed I was already IN septic shock! I spent 3 months in a coma, had multiple surgeries and spent 6 months total in the hospital on full life support for 3 months. I didn’t even run a fever until I was in the coma! It was 105* and then the CCU staff worried I would have brain damage. Thank God I didn’t. But it changed my life forever. That was 20 years ago. 20 years ago today I was in a coma. Doctors need to pay attention to the symptoms patients are telling them they have. I did, yet it was dismissed as being a ‘new’ mom. But I wasn’t, it was my 2nd child and I knew what was happening to my body was different, yet no doctor believed ME!
Sepsis can happen VERY fast.
She’s luckily. Doctors where stupid where I was. I went into full organ failure and ended up on dialysis and life support and had to be pumped with antibiotics on on life support. The antibiotics caused hearing loss and constant tinnitus that’s permanent. I’ll never forget being awake on a respirator and no one around. It was horrible. I needed dialysis for 6 months and have permanent hearing loss, trouble high blood pressure. This lady was really luckily. I wish they caught it when I went to the hospital. It was almost to late. I can’t hold down a job cause of hearing loss and I can’t afford hearing aids. I do need them to function now fully. This whole fucking thing makes me wish I didn’t live honestly. I’m always afraid I’ll get sick again. Last year I caught pneumonia twice and was in the hospital.
Sorry to hear about your situation. My baby got sepsis at 9 months. They caught early because I got really intense, I told them something is not right. I wasn't going to leave that hospital. He is doing better but I am also very xtress that is going to be back, affect his development and others; I actually have to find consulate help, family and church because the fear.
I just wanted to say, I do understand you perfectly. Living day by day. Take care
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How does this even happen?
I’ve seen a few of these sepsis during/after pregnancy videos and it seems to be a reoccurring theme of women getting sepsis with their 2nd child birth. I have a son and my husband and I want to have another baby, and now I’m scared lol… can anyone share their thoughts on this?
So.... maternal means after giving birth, so where was the infection that started sepsis? She said she was bleeding vaginally.
I lost my baby from this sepsis😭😭
Oh god I seriously thought the baby had it
Such a blessing you are ok….but can I just say…CALL AN AMBULANCE!!!! Don’t have your husband drive like a maniac with a 6wk old in the back seat.
Hospitals are so dirty.