In August 2022 I had a phone call to say my brother had been rushed to hospital and they weren’t sure what was wrong. When I got to our local A&E department I learnt that Ashley had suffered a massive cardiac arrest and no one was sure of the reason for this. They checked for blood clots with a scan and nothing was found. He was admitted to the high dependency unit and placed on various different machines to keep him alive. Over the following hours, various blood results came back, and the doctors told us the cause of his cardiac arrest was sepsis, which had caused his blood oxygen level to drop dangerously low along with his blood pressure, and one by one all of his organs were shutting down.
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