United States: “Real Housewives Of Orange County” star Vicki Gunvalson told her all the fans about her recent health issue which was a sepsis a disease that happens when the body is fighting an infection that can be fatal.
As reported by Fox news, “This entire health scare came unannounced — with no warning,” Gunvalson said in an interview to Fox News Digital.
With Sepsis Awareness Month this September just around the corner, Gunvalson’s story is timely in getting the message out about the illness.
‘Sepsis awareness can as well as does save lives, but only 65 percent of American adults have ever heard of the disease,’ Selena A. Gilles, a clinical professor and associate dean at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing said to Fox News Digital.
Gilles sits on the board of directors of Sepsis Alliance, a California-based organization that addresses the problem of sepsis throughout America.
” Getting to know and diagnose promptly can be of certain significance in the prevention of serious ailment and even death,” Dr. Aaron Glatt, chief of infectious diseases at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital on Long Island, New York shared with FOX New Digital.
Sepsis: The Real Housewives of Orange County star spoke to Fox News Digital about her sepsis diagnosis.
“Two weeks ago I was so confused and did not know where I was going when I was going to my office” said Gunvalson via email. She continued: ‘Once I got into the office, my staff realized I was not acting normal’, ‘My assistant thought that I was possibly having a stroke’. ”
The emergency room gave Gunvalson a “sinus disease” dismissal, but the next morning she is “extremely incoherent.” So, her boyfriend brings her back.
Gunvalson was diagnosed with sepsis and was put on antibiotics for a certain period and now she is recovering at home but talking to the sepsis team at the hospital.