00:00Okay, here is the long and awaited story time of what happened and how I got sepsis.
00:05So, what had happened was, um, on the Sunday last week, so the 6th of April, I had a tongue piercing, and it was a metal tongue piercing, and I have anxiety.
00:14So I was biting down on my tongue piercing, and I cracked my tooth, like, fully cracked my tooth, and my tooth went into my, like, into my gum.
00:21And I didn't think anything of it, I just thought, oh, in the morning I'll get it removed, like, because it was late at night when this happened.
00:27So I thought, right, I'll just, I'll just get it taken out in the morning.
00:31This was literally how my face went about 10-15 minutes after I'd done that to my tooth, my face swollen up instantly.
00:39So, I just took some painkillers and went back to sleep, because I was gonna get it taken out in the morning, like I said.
00:45So, the morning comes around, and my face is, like, five times the size, and severely swollen, and it was, like, it was burning to the touch.
00:54Like, you touched my face, and your fingers were very hot.
00:57I had an ice cube, actually.
00:58I put an ice cube up to it, and it melted within, like, five seconds.
01:01It was boiling hot.
01:03So, I'm panicking at this point.
01:04I'm like, whoa, like, what's going on?
01:07Because my throat, like, my tonsils, my airway was also closing because of how swollen I was getting, so I couldn't breathe properly.
01:13So, I went straight up to the hospital.
01:16Like, straight away went up to the hospital.
01:17I'm gonna have to call it Hospital A, because I cannot say any hospital names for legal reasons.
01:24If you know, you know.
01:25So, literally, within an hour, guys, my face went like that.
01:29My face, bump, it's swollen.
01:31It went, it went crazy.
01:32It went absolutely crazy.
01:34So, I go to Hospital A, and I'm like, my face is really swollen.
01:38It hurts the torch, da-da-da-da.
01:40They basically said, you're fine, you just need to go and get it taken out.
01:43So, I was like, all right, that's fine.
01:44They gave me an emergency dentist to go to.
01:46I went straight away, got booked in.
01:49I went to the dentist, and they looked at it and said, we can't do anything because you've got an infection in your mouth.
01:54We cannot, we can't operate on that because it's an infection in your mouth.
01:57So, then, the dentist proceeded to prescribe me antibiotics that I'm allergic to.
02:03I told them I was allergic to them, and they still gave me antibiotics with that allergy involved.
02:08And I'm allergic to penicillin.
02:09So, there's like a chemical inside of penicillin that's also in these tablets that I had taken, and it's the exact same.
02:14So, from that, my face, oh my gosh.
02:19This was when I took my tablets, and because I was being sick quite a lot, I got a severe infection, and I ended up getting blood poisoning, which is also known, guys, as sepsis.
02:31So, I ring 111, and I tell them my symptoms, and instantly they send me an ambulance out.
02:35But I'm like, I can make my own way up.
02:36I'm five minutes away from my nearest hospital.
02:38So, I make my own way up.
02:40My face was getting more and more swollen.
02:43Like, this here was like an infection trying to, like, push its way out of my neck.
02:49Oh my god, it's grim to think about, guys.
02:51So, yeah, I arrive at hospital number two.
02:54This was the day after, or the day, I think it was, yeah, it was the day after.
02:57I arrived at hospital two.
02:59Hospital two told me that I instantly need surgery on my throat, because, like, my airways were closing, my blood was poisoned, my blood was all delirious.
03:07Like, they quite literally said, your blood's deranged.
03:09I was like, oh, thanks.
03:12My results were absolutely, they were abominable.
03:16I do not know how I'm still alive, basically.
03:18So, I got rushed straight up to Blackburn Hospital.
03:21They saved my goddamn life.
03:22I cannot, like, I swear down.
03:26I got rushed straight up to Blackburn Hospital.
03:28I got given a bed literally within five minutes.
03:32I was seeing hospital two within ten minutes and rushed straight up.
03:35So, everything was literally, like, I was dying.
03:38I was dying.
03:39So, at this point, I can't swallow my spirit.
03:42I can't breathe properly.
03:43So, they have to instantly get me on a drip to drain whatever they could out of me, because, like, I was getting worse and worse and worse.
03:52I was deteriorating in the bed.
03:54So, eventually, they get me stable.
03:56They get everything stable.
03:57I'm calm.
03:59And then I go sleep.
04:01I wake up, and they tell me, you need your operation right now.
04:05Let's go.
04:05So, then I go and get it.
04:07So, they made an incision in my neck, and they had to drain all of the infection out of my neck.
04:14I'll, uh, show.
04:14Then they had to put a bag on my neck.
04:16So, here I am with a bag on my neck.
04:19This was collecting, like, this was my drainage.
04:22So, they'd got, like, the main part out of my operation, and then they had to drain it for a bag.
04:28They, like, basically took it off.
04:30Like, they, uh, un-velcroed it at the bottom and just drained it.
04:34But it got filled up with, like, a lot of disgusting stuff.
04:39Here I am.
04:39Still smiling, because I was so grateful to be alive.
04:42But, yeah, this is what I mean.
04:43Like, my blood had gone a very odd colour.
04:47It had gone a very odd colour.
04:48I'm going to have to try and cover this the best I can.
04:50But I basically had two tubes coming out of my neck.
04:53They were draining into the bag.
04:55I then got my bandage put on, and I was crying happiness because I survived.
04:59And this is what it currently looks like underneath this bandage.
05:02I've got, like, a little incision in my neck.
05:04Um, it's still, obviously, got the infection in.
05:07But I'm on, uh, I'm on so many meds to bring it down.
05:11My blood is stable.
05:12It's okay.
05:13My white blood cells are for it.
05:14I'm back.
05:15I survived.
05:16But that's basically what happened.
05:18So, because I was basically neglected by Hospital A and the dentistry,
05:23I am going to try and, like, do something about it.
05:25I don't know if I will yet, but I'm going to try.
05:27Like, I've got, I've got a thought of it because it was so bad what they did.
05:30They literally left me to rot.
05:32They left me to rot.
05:33Like, there's no other way about it.
05:35But thank you for everyone that came along.
05:37If you want to stick along with my TikTok, I am, like, I'm not a creator,
05:41but I'm a pretty, I'm a pretty vibey person.
05:43Like, I was in hospital, and I didn't even care that I,
05:46I cared I was in hospital, obviously.
05:48But, like, my condition, I wasn't letting it actually bring me down.
