My Mother; Alice Mary Onyona was diagnosed with high blood pressure in 2008. In 2016 medical reports showed that she had mitral valve regurgitation. There was fluid build-up around her lungs (pleural effusion). As a result, she had a persistent cough.

My sepsis story began on February 22, 2013 with the birth of my daughter Hannah. I had a healthy, normal and natural delivery at East General Hospital in Toronto. Within 24 hours of delivery, I was released from the hospital and everything was fine.

But at 5 days, I took a turn and was incubated and intubated for weeks. My parents received their very own Christmas miracle when the Doctor told them I was able to finally go home. Being a premie my lungs never fully developed and as a child I was prone to getting viral and bacterial infections. When I got sick, it hit me hard and for weeks. As I matured, I watched my peers run, play sports and dance. I always knew I was different. I could never breath properly after any type of exertion.

I was a 100% healthy, 43-year-old woman. I am also a registered nurse. I became ill in December of 2012 as I was getting ready for that year's Christmas festivities. My 4 daughters, aged 14 and under, husband and I were all busy with work, school, friends, Christmas prep and parties.

Back in 2016, we almost lost Benny.

That experience changed my life forever. I was always that chill easygoing parent when my kids got sick. In 2016, that changed.

My daughter, Camila “Millie” Rose was a happy, healthy, energetic ray of sunshine. She had a donut party for her fifth birthday on September 14, 2019.

There are many of you who have asked about the whole story of my husband Carl's illness. Sepsis has done so much damage to my husband.

Can you imagine waking up in ICU, being informed that you had been on life support for a month and that you almost died and having no memory of how you got there?! It sounds like a nightmare but is the reality for many people surviving septic shock.

5 years ago, had someone said to me “life is about to put you on a path that’s going to pull the very tapestry of your life as you know it right out from underneath you, flip you upside down and turn your world inside out.” I would have never believed it, but life did exactly just that. This is our story.

I was a former military lineman and was working a telecommunications job in the private sector. I was also a drummer in a band most weekends.

On November 8, 2017, I presented to our local emergency room suffering with severe abdominal pain, diarrhoea, and nausea. The inability to keep any food down had also left me slightly malnourished

My sepsis story begins November 1 2016.

I woke up that morning with shivers. Around noon the nausea, vomiting and fever started. I'm not sure how high my temp got that day but I do remember having a 101 temp a couple of hours after taking tylenol.

Hi, I'm Diane M.,

My sepsis story started July 8 2016, I was having an ovary removed to check for cancer. what was suppose to be a 45 minute procedure turned into a 1.5 hrs, and abdominal staples which I wasn't supposed to have. I was sent home with no explanation just told to return in a week to have staples removed.

It has been nine years almost to the date since my sepsis story began in Spring 2012. It was a beautiful Saturday, much like today. My youngest son was bouncing on the trampoline in the backyard. I was watching him, gardening, and laughing at his antics.

Sepsis and Hodgkin Lymphoma: Realistic Expectations

I am still in shock! No pun intended. Using a sense of humour does help with accepting and advocating for your life. It also can act as a distraction to the seriousness of a deadly diagnosis such as Sepsis.

Two days before Christmas - my mother’s favourite holiday - she was told that they found cancer on her lung and that it spread throughout her body. Our family was preparing for a lung cancer diagnosis and on January 4, 2022 she was officially diagnosed with Stage 4 non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

After having major back surgery and being discharged to home, I developed sepsis. (Sepsis and Surgery)

A lot of circumstances lead up to this, but I won’t elaborate further. I was home and felt well for 2 days.

My name is Kelley. I am the mother of two young adults and bonus mom to my fiancé’s two young daughters.

In February 2017 I had a routine hysterectomy, all went well and I was discharged. About 7 days post op I started feeling ill.

On March 8th 2019, I woke up feeling completely normal. At 9am I caught the bus to work and felt a sharp intense pain in my right side. By the time I got to work I was in overwhelming pain, and headed to the hospital.

What are the odds a Canadian will experience sepsis?

Well I have, twice.

My father became extremely ill Dec 8, 2017. He'd been experiencing delirium and then sepsis which was then increased monumentally when he had 17 teeth extracted in one sitting.