In September my mom’s bowel ruptured due to a very large hernia she’d had for 20 years. She survived, but she spent a month in ICU recovering from the sepsis. The surgeries, the colostomy, none of it held a candle to the recovery from the sepsis. She was delirious for 3 weeks. Childlike, even. We thought it had done permanent brain damage, but thank God she recovered.

That was in September, it is now nearly 7 months later and she still can’t walk. She just doesn’t have the strength in he legs, and her blood pressure has not recovered. It’s very low, and when she stands it drops even worse, making it a risk she’ll pass out.

Sepsis is no fucking joke. The day she got sick I’ve never seen a human in that much pain. I’m really grateful that she doesn’t remember it, because it still gives me nightmares.