A Scots grandad who was just six hours away from dying after developing sepsis has urged other sufferers to ‘never give up’.
Mitch Stevenson began experiencing severe chest pains and was struggling to breathe at his home in East Lothian before being rushed to hospital by ambulance in March 2017.
He was placed into a medically induced coma after Edinburgh medics discovered he had developed double pneumonia as well as having the life-threatening infection in his lungs.
After being given a tracheostomy to help him breathe, Mitch, 59, remained unconscious for two weeks with doctors telling his wife Jackie that he would have died if he had arrived six hours later.
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