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I had a search for this - hope I haven't missed it already.
Some hard reading in here. I'm not commenting on the NHS / doctors involved in this woeful tale, just the bit about her falling on the end of her handlebar.
It didn't "applecore" her, but caused an injury I wasn't even remotely aware of.
Just sharing in case others aren't aware.
That is a tragic story. There is a relationship between acute pancreatitis and onset of sepsis.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/acute-pancreatitis/complications/
My sister had a thyroid removal operation, developed and infection, went in to be seen on the ward and 30min later was put in an induced coma in ITU for sepsis (haemolytic group A strep tissue infection). She was there for nine weeks and survived. The issue for the above case was an unwillingness to pull the same sepsis trigger. One would have thought that the relationship I linked to was known. Perhaps not.
Anyone working in healthcare today should be more than aware of the link between any infection and sepsis, God knows there's been enough training on it
That was one the hardest reads I've ever 'done'. Terribly sad.
As you said Rich a very hard read, particularly as its 3 years since I was called into hospital at midnight to be told "there is no chance of Carolyn surviving."
I could have told them that 2 weeks before as after 38 years together I could see she had no more energy. But sometimes the consultants make you question your own judgement.
The nursing staff were fantastic but overstretched and things got missed, I noticed just in time one of the feeding bottles being plumbed in to her NG tube was 3 months out of date! When they checked there was a mixed case in the fridge and 3 out of 10 were from an old batch. Probably as I've worked most of my life in the food industry I'm aware of these things but who knows what that one small thing could have caused others?
Carolyn's parents have said the loss of a child that has grown up is really hard to deal with as you can't imagine them going before you, they had 2 mismarriages between Carolyn & her sister but said accepting the loss of a child you have never known is easier.
Sorry for the ramblings