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EXCLUSIVE Seventeen doctors dismissed my agonizing stomach pains as 'labor cramps' - but it was deadly sepsis from a botched c-section Sepsis is the top cause of hospital deaths, killing one person every 90 seconds Female sepsis survivors detailed how they were horrifically dismissed HAVE YOU OR A LOVED ONE EXPERIENCED SEPSIS? CONTACT US AT [email protected] By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 13:18, 10 May 2024 | Updated: 13:27, 10 May 2024 e-mail 22 View comments Tammy Cox was given just four hours to live by the time doctors finally listened to her concerns.
At 42, she had just given birth to a 'perfectly healthy' baby boy via c-section. But within hours, the realtor had 'puffed up like a fish' and was doubled over in her hospital bed with violent diarrhea and pain. 'I could have screamed at the top of my lungs because it was so painful in my stomach area,' Texas-based Ms Cox, now 56, told DailyMail.
com. Doctors decided she was well enough to go home after 24-hours, brushing off her symptoms as 'normal' side effects of labor. In the following days, she saw her abdomen and chest fill with fluid, leaving her feeling as if she was drowning and unable to move.
Despite calls with 17 different doctors about her concerns, Ms Cox's symptoms were not taken seriously. That is until one astute doctor spotted that her complaints were obvious signs of sepsis - when the body overreacts to an infection, with lethal consequences. Ms Cox went into heart failure a.
