Hi, Lori

The infection's point of entry was never positively identified. One doctor thought it might have been a scratch on the big toe of my left foot. Other doctors said we'll probably never know for sure. Whatever the entry point, my foot and leg swelled and grew inflamed in only a matter of hours. I spent the next two weeks on various broad-spectrum IV antibiotics. I am doing at-home health care now. The sepsis's two chief symptoms remain an ugly wound on my left foot (still "weeping," although most of the foot and leg swelling is gone) and some really debilitating shortness of breath: I take ten steps and feel like I've run a 10K. 🙂

Ray