A Plymouth woman who thought she had a cold after ‘feeling run down’ for a week nearly died - and there's one thing she wishes she'd known about.

Kat Tapson's skin went grey and she spent a night ‘uncontrollably shivering’ before she was rushed to hospital - and she ‘owes the nurse her life’ for picking up on the seriousness of her symptoms.

She had ‘unknowingly entered the last stage of sepsis’ - and she was in ’the final stage before death’ suffering from septic shock. The mum-of-one was hospitalised and placed in a coma for 16 days to give her the ‘best possible chance at living’, Kat was aged 35 at the time (in December 2022).

The 38-year-old said: “I had been feeling run down for a week or so, I assumed it was just a bad case of the flu. My husband even had the ambulance called out

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