Mum's bad cold turned out to be sepsis after going to A&E 'looking like a zombie' A mum's bad cold turned out to be sepsis after she went to A&E 'looking like a zombie' Leah Denney believes she would be dead if she hadn't trusted her 'gut instinct' and begged to be taken to A&E. She says she 'looked like a zombie' after being struck down by what appeared to be severe cold symptoms including body aches and a fluctuating temperature. She took cold medication and got plenty of rest in the hope she'd soon shift it.
But soon the 28-year-old was unable to keep any food or fluids down and went to an out-of-hours urgent care centre. She was told she had a UTI and prescribed antibiotics. But days later, she went back to the centre and doctors gave her more pills to tackle the sharp stabbing pains in her chest and the aches in her side she'd started to experience.
She said she felt like she was 'dying' and 'looked like a zombie' Image: Kennedy News and Media) Kennedy News and Media) Image: Kennedy News and Media) Kennedy News and Media) The beauty therapist begged her mum to take her to A&E for help where doctors discovered she had a horror combination of flu, Strep A, pneumonia and a stage-three kidney infection, which eventually led to sepsis. Leah was placed in an induced coma that evening and had her collapsed right lung drained of 2.8 litres of fluid.
After spending 12 days in a coma the mum-of-one was brought round and eventually allowed home where she learned how to eat and walk.
