My dad came back from a weekend away with my mum and started to feel a bit under the weather with sickness bug. By the Tuesday he was struggling to breathe and my mum took him to A&E. Very quickly they realised he was really quite sick, the next day he was ventilated and his life was in danger as his organs had started to fail. Unfortunately my dad lost his battle with Sepsis by the Saturday night. We are all still so shocked and confused as how he could be fine, healthy and here one day and gone the next. We are starting to realise how quickly Sepsis can take someone’s life with little or no symptoms. As a family we would like to raise money for Sepsis Research so that treatment can become more advanced and there can be more hope for those who experience Sepsis. Sepsis Research FEAT is a registered charity (SC049399) and we are the UK’s only sepsis research charity. Sepsis accounts for around 50,000 deaths in the UK every year - that's more than breast and bowel cancer combined. We don't understand enough about sepsis and the biological processes that can lead to serious illness or even death. That is why we urgently need to increase funding:- to raise awareness of sepsis- for research: to understand the processes that lead to sepsis, to design effective treatments for it & to help save lives.