One morning changed my life. A date I will never forget: 13th June 2019. That week, I had been doing my normal activities, going to work, seeing friends and enjoying life as a 21-year-old. However, on that Thursday morning, I woke up and I could not breathe. I had always had

Around the middle of 2011 I started having issues with vertigo.   Local ENT doctors did many exams and sent me to the hearing center at Vanderbilt.  I was diagnosed with BPPV and came home for treatment here.  The vertigo eventually led to near blackouts and so my cardiologist wanted to

In May 2022 I had an outpatient surgery to remove a cyst… The wound got infected in the OR, and 5 days later I was admitted to the hospital in septic shock. I got better and then worse and 4 days after hospital admission on May 29, 2022 I suffered

My name is Steve Edmonson, this is my experience after sepsis, which means, it is also about post-ICU Syndrome, or PICS as it has come to be known, something that I’ve had for the past 15 years. I’m always a bit surprised that so many people are unaware of its

In 2018, I contracted H1N1. One week later, after 3 visits to the ER,  I was admitted to the ICU with sepsis, double pneumonia, and ARDS. I spent 3 weeks on a ventilator with a 10% chance of survival. Much of that time I was in a medically-induced coma. During

Sunday, November 27th 2022… as the sun was to rise on another of God’s days, our sweet and loving Andrew, gently closed his eyes to this earthly life, and went on his eternal reward of everlasting peace and rest. At just the young age of 23, he had touched so