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From Fox News: “Real Housewives of Orange County” star Vicki Gunvalson, 62, is sharing her recent health scare after she was hospitalized with sepsis, a potentially deadly disease that results from the body’s response to an infection.
“This entire health scare came unannounced — with no warning,” Gunvalson told Fox News Digital.
As Sepsis Awareness Month kicks off this September, Gunvalson’s timely story is helping to raise awareness of the illness.
“Sepsis awareness can and does save lives, yet only 65% of American adults have ever heard of it,” Selena A. Gilles, clinical professor and associate dean at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, told Fox News Digital.
In an email to Fox News, Gunvalson explained, “Two weeks ago, when I was heading to my office, I was very delirious and unclear on where I was going. Once I got into the office, my staff realized I was not acting normal. My assistant thought that I was possibly having a stroke.”
Gunvalson was taken to the emergency room, where she was diagnosed as having a “sinus disease” and sent home. But the next morning, she was “extremely incoherent” so her boyfriend took her back to the hospital.
She ended up in the hospital for six days, with sepsis and pneumonia, and was told later that she had only been given a 20% chance of survival.
The report explains that sepsis can start within hours, and common symptoms include fever, chills, rapid heart rate, confusion, shortness of breath, extreme pain, and clammy or sweaty skin.
Gunvalson has recently spoken out on a podcast about her frightening experience. Below is Gunvalson’s full story:
Below is an informative video from UW Medicine:
Sepsis a top killer in US behind heart disease, cancer: What to know, how to avoid the condition https://t.co/XXuyoZPeLD
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