Superfit dad's family told to say goodbyes after ending up in intensive care from clicking shoulder
dailyrecord.co.ukA superfit dad, whose family were told to say their final goodbyes when he nearly died from sepsis, has warned that anyone can be affected by the often silent killer.
Mark Oakes, 51, was a bodybuilder, he didn't drink or smoke, was a keen mountain biker, and had a black belt in karate to match when the illness took that all away, EssexLive reports.The dad was so close to death that doctors told his wife Heather to bring their seven-year-old boy to hospital to say his goodbyes.Mark, from Essex, said: "I consider myself to be somewhat informed about this sort of thing but I knew nothing about sepsis.
I had this perception that sepsis was something found in people who have had things like tattoos in less than hygienic places, or someone who had had a hideous bite in a tropical country."I also thought it would be easily treated.
What I didn't know was that it killed about 50,000 out of 250,000 people affected in the UK each year. I didn't know that people die of sepsis every hour.
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