I wanted to edit this page to share my story. Its very personal and has taken me a long time to be able to write this.

On 20th April I was sent home from work with a high temp and abdominal pain, our first thought was the dreaded covid. I went to bed on that Monday and stayed there. Each day the pain got worse but I just kept thinking it will get better with pain killers. I was awful to my kids and Karl who were trying to help me. I can't remember anything from the Thursday and Friday but have been told I was delirous talking to the ceiling, my eyes were rolling and was in and out of consciousness. I was adamant I wasn't going to hospital but on the Friday louise overruled me and rang 999. I was taken to MRI where I was in rhesus for 11 hours while they stabilised me. I then had scans, blood tests and all sorts of other tests. It turned out I had a tubo ovarian abcess which had grown to 10cm and the infection had spread to all my tubes and caused severe sepsis. The doctor said if louise hadn't rang the ambulance when she did 4 more hours and i wouldn't have made it. I was then admitted to the gynae ward where I was on  2 lots of IV anti-biotics and morphine for the pain. I was dehydrated and had to have 9 different canular sites due to my veins collapsing. It was the worst few weeks of my life especially as I couldn't see my family due to the covid. The staff were amazing though and helped me through it.
My family were amazing when I came home and the kids became my nurse and doctor helping me with my medication and all the other needs I had and I can never thank them enough for that ❤
I still have good and bad days with the pain and the other after effects of the sepsis such as the brain fog, the hair loss and the nightmares but I'm still here thats what matters. I'm doing this cycle to try and help anyone who has been affected by this awful illness and hopefully raise some awareness of it. Anything at all you can donate would be appreciated and please feel free to share this. 

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to read this and share and donate but most of all thank you from the bottom of my heart to my kids, karl and my family for coming on this journey with me and getting me through it I love you all so much ❤