I heard a tragic story today about a young woman of 26 called Grace who visited her parents in Cambridge recently. For some reason she was pushing a car when she fell and landed flat on her chest. She later contracted pneumonia and died afterwards of septicaemia – all this happened within the space of two-and-a-half weeks.
I find it incredible that a fit and healthy young woman can die in this way in this day and age.
That is a sad story Ellee. I wonder if one of those dreaded “super bugs” (MRSA etc) had anything to do with it?
sepsis is a terrible disease. My dad struggled with it for a few months and died from it.
He was in the hospital with several other with it- even with the previously fit and healthy it is a killer disease.
It doesn’t even have to be MRSA- suffering any sort of infection is enough if your system is weakened for whatever reason.
Kris, I went into a hospital day surgery for a minor operation a few years ago and was warned there could be complications. Sure enough, I contracted septiceamia and had to be admitted and given an intraveanous drip. Why does that happen? How does the bacteria enter our bloodstream?
Ellee if you have anything invasive (surgery, transfusion, drip, even an injection, it only takes one single bacterium on the instrument to set it off. A single cell can multiply to billions within hours.
Ellee
And you live to tell the tale. I’m not kidding and as you well know, you are one of God’s chosen to get through that…
Good grief!
and yet it is true, and happens more often than anyone would like. The like stories of eighteen years old’s who drop dead while running track from a congenital heart defect.
It’s tales like this that are good to remind me to take notice of every minute, of the now, and live it with passion. We must remember, I think to not only grieve the death but to celebrate and thus do honor to the life that was lived.
Is this a National Health story?
Poor parents.
Eurodog, the parents were told their daughter would pull through. Grace’s death took everyone by surprise. There is no way they were poor parents and I can’t comment on her health care either. It all happened so fast.
I meant: poor parents losing a child.