I am soooo sorry to hear of all you went through !! I suffered PTSD from my perforated bowel obstruction which burst my bowel. I also remember I had sepsis as well. Had a colostomy placed. Hospitalized three weeks without a doctor as the ER doc who performed surgery went on vacation the next day and I was left with five residents making my medical decisions. Came down with a secondary infection. I was put in all the worst rooms in the hospital. They ran out of my colostomy bags! Ran out of my meds. One room was leaking water on my clean clothes. PT people would come to pound my back to keep pneumonia away, every day at lunchtime while I was eating and never came back later on. I'm surprised I survived that whole 3 weeks in the hospital! To this day when I feel the need to be traumatized, I look at the photos of my stomach and the hospital records.......when doctors don't know what they are doing, which I find is happening more and more, the patient gets mentally destroyed. I can't imagine going through what you did with children at home!