Darcey’s Story

Darcey’s Story

On the 12th of November a day I thought was going to be the most magical day of my life nearly resulted in me dying. My beautiful baby boy Louis finally arrived after being induced, I got through the exhaustion and pain of labour and delivered my boy at 3:24AM. I...
Liz’s Story

Liz’s Story

I’m so lucky to be alive. That hits me with a punch almost every day. In the beautiful summer of 2015 I had just returned to work after maternity leave. I was 40 years old, had an 11-month-old son, Emeran, and was excited to get back to my job researching and teaching...
Eábha’s Story

Eábha’s Story

This summer, we have been working closely with ITV on the storyline in Coronation Street, where 7-year-old aspiring footballer Jack Webster develops sepsis from a grazing his knee while playing football with his sister Sophie. Jack eventually has to undergo a leg...
Poppy’s Story

Poppy’s Story

It’s hard to believe that a simple urinary tract infection could put me in hospital for a week and give me a life threatening condition, but it did. In early August of 2017 I went to the doctors after showing symptoms of an infection, I was given a three day course of...
Rosie’s Story

Rosie’s Story

When my daughter Rosie was two, she got chickenpox from her sister. I thought she was going to get off lightly at first, but three days later she still didn’t look right. I took her to the GP twice, on a Saturday and Sunday, and both doctors I saw said they thought...
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