Nurse who almost died of sepsis: I felt absolute terror

Charlotte hadn’t had a great start to 2014. The nurse from Birmingham had been off work over Christmas with a flare-up of Crohn’s disease. Then, on January 4, she woke up with a throbbing ache in her groin. 
“I assumed I must have pulled a muscle,” Charlotte, now 28, says. “But the pain got worse as the day went on so I phoned my sister Giselle for reassurance. She asked if it was swollen or discoloured and when I looked, I was shocked to see that my whole leg was mottled red and purple and hot to the touch.” 
Having been in and out of hospital regularly since the age of 13 with Crohn’s,... read more