Three years ago, Sue Puddefoot, 62, from Saxmundham, Suffolk, went into Ipswich Hospital for a hip replacement. <\/p>\n
Surgery went well and she recalled still feeling pain around her hip, but the doctors said she could go home.<\/p>\n
Her husband Mark noticed she looked “absolutely awful” and doctors decided to test for an infection where her blood markers came back extremely high.<\/p>\n
Doctors believed she had suffered a septic shower, where bacteria or toxins from an infected site are released into the bloodstream, rapidly triggering sepsis.<\/p>\n
Due to being so unwell, Sue missed her son’s wedding.<\/p>\n
“It’s really strange because I don’t think it’s actually hit me, it didn’t hit me what I’d been through and the severity of it,” she said. <\/p>\n
Sue recovered, but quickly went downhill again, feeling very cold and shaking despite a normal temperature. <\/p>\n
Doctors believed she had a second septic shower and Mark said “it had been very touch and go”.<\/p>\n
She had seven blood transfusions and years on she suffered from some memory loss and struggled to regulate her body temperature. <\/p>\n
“I hadn’t known anyone that had sepsis before,” Sue said.<\/p>\n
“It’s worrying that there’s so many people that haven’t heard of it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three years ago, Sue Puddefoot, 62, from Saxmundham, Suffolk, went into Ipswich Hospital for a hip replacement. Surgery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-761688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}