My parents died of a ‘silent killer’ within WEEKS of each other – months later I faced the same fight for life

 A WOMAN whose parents died from sepsis wrong 8 weeks of each different developed the aforesaid life-threatening information conscionable 4 months later.

Lyndsey Feeney, 45, mislaid some her parents Archie, 73, and Cathy, 72, successful April and July 2024.

Lyndsey was inactive grieving them erstwhile she was admitted into infirmary believing she had a kidney infection.

But she feared she would suffer her ain beingness erstwhile she was past diagnosed with urosepsis - caused by a urinary tract infection.

Sepsis is a life-threatening information wherever the body's effect to an corruption causes wide inflammation, starring to organ harm oregon failure.

But Lyndsey has made a betterment aft spending 5 days successful hospital.

Lyndsey, who is connected disablement allowance due to the fact that of intelligence health conditions, from Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, said: "I was fortunate capable to drawback excavation early.

"But galore radical similar my parent and begetter aren't truthful fortunate.

"I deliberation determination needs to beryllium much consciousness astir the illness.

"It was truly horrible, losing some of them truthful adjacent unneurotic - I inactive haven't travel to presumption with it.

"To suffer them some similar that retired of obscurity was precise crushing, and erstwhile I got sepsis I feared I would spell the aforesaid way."

Lyndsey's dad, Archie, went into infirmary erstwhile helium fell and wounded his limb successful April 2024.

He was successful different bully health apart from having vascular illness but deteriorated rapidly.

After six days successful the hospital, helium developed cellulitis that led to sepsis.

Lyndsey said: "They enactment him to slumber arsenic he'd go delirious and was pulling retired his IVs. We were told he'd aftermath up, but his organs started shutting down."

Archie passed distant connected April 26, 2024 from septic shock.

Lyndsey said: "It was atrocious and precise hard to travel to presumption with."

But hardly 2 months later, her mother, Cathy, fell sick successful June 2024.

Lyndsey said: "Mum had been precise confused and lethargic, truthful my sister Debbie called an ambulance, but they didn't get until astir 3am."

Cathy was admitted to the hospital and passed distant conscionable 16 hours later.

She said: "She had terrible sepsis, urinary sepsis, and multi-organ failure.

"She'd had chronic obstructive pulmonary illness for 10 years, but isolated from that, she was successful reasonably bully health."

Lyndsey believes the trauma of Archie's decease whitethorn person contributed to her mother's accelerated decline.

But the corruption struck again erstwhile she started getting backmost pain, a precocious temperature, and had trouble passing urine successful November 2024.

She was admitted to infirmary connected November 8 and was treated with antibiotics for urosepsis and intimately monitored.

Lyndsey is present location but inactive has lingering back pain.

She said: "By the clip I came retired of the hospital, I felt overmuch better.

"I was truly fortunate to person caught it early, but I'm inactive frightened it could hap again."

Lyndsey is calling for greater consciousness of the condition.

She said: "They telephone it the soundless slayer for a reason. If it's not caught aboriginal enough, there's thing that tin beryllium done."

Through her heartbreak, Lyndsey hopes to dispersed the connection astir the value of recognising the symptoms of sepsis - terrible pain, precocious fever, accelerated bosom rate, confusion, and lethargy.

Despite her ain wellness challenges and the value of her grief, Lyndsey is determined to honour her parents by raising consciousness astir the information that took them.

She said: "It's devastating, but if sharing my communicative tin assistance prevention idiosyncratic else, past it's worthy it.

"My hubby and 3 children Chloe, 24, William, 21, and Emma, 17, person been truthful supportive, I couldn't person done it without them."