BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…

Paralympian Liam McGarry has ruled himself out of this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after battling sepsis.

Please World Health Organisation classify Post Sepsis Syndrome with a ICD.

Photo by Bob SpringBob54 on Pexels.com I’ve been a bit remiss in discussing my life lately. The truth is, events over the past few months have left me discouraged, particularly the results of…

There were times I didn’t know why I survived sepsis, and even darker times when I wished I hadn’t. After surviving septic shock in May, 2021, after a colon perforation erupted from undiagnosed diverticulitis, I wanted to run away and escape myself. Emergency colorectal surgery saved my life, but that was just the opener to the first chapter. After spending more than a month in the intensive care unit (ICU), post-operative units, and rehabilitation, recovering, and learning to walk again, the...