Hello, My name is Cable Wray and I am so honored to be able to write and communicate to you on this day. You may ask why I am honored, well I am honored because there are so many people that have suffered from sepsis and is not still here to communicate today.

Sometimes we can think we are invincible of certain things because we may be doing everything correctly and then out of nowhere, we are faced with a certain situation, that is what happened to me. I am a very healthy person that eat a vegetarian diet, drink plenty of water and exerts regularly, so when I began having sharp pains in my stomach, I would have never thought it was kidney stones (especially because all I drink is water).

Well, it was a normal day and I was hosting a book signing when suddenly, I felt a great sharp pain in the bottom of my stomach that took me to my knees. I had to cancel the book signing and be helped to the car, where someone drove me home. I went to the emergency room and was told they did not have a urologist at the facility, gave me pain meds (that did not work) and sent me home.

The next day I went back because it was getting hard for me to urinate on my own and after begging for them to keep me, they finally admitted me, but I had to stay in the ER because all rooms in the main hospital was filled. The Dr. called a urologist who said he could remove the kidney stone. The next morning a family member drove me to the urologist but after arriving we was told they did not take my insurance and sent me home in pain crying. All that day I began to hallucinate, hearing people talking and thinking I was going crazy.

Another family member drove me to another hospital out of town and I was feverish, shaking, hearing things and crying in tremendous pain. They immediately took me to the trauma room and took all kind of test. The kidney stone had turned into a urinary tract infection and because the stone was so big, blocking my urine, there was no way the infection could come out and it went into my bloodstream and that is how I obtained sepsis. The infection was so bad my platelets had dropped to 10,000 when the lowest supposed to be 150,000. I had to have emergency surgery and recover in ICU where they had me on one antibiotic, but it wasn’t working, and I had to keep receiving blood because the infection would not allow my platelets to rise.

Finally, they found an antibiotic that worked and started fighting off the infection and finally my life was out of danger and I was on the road to recovery. The first hospital made the mistake in not checking my blood count and not paying attention to my symptoms of fever, shaking and hallucination.

I thank GOD that I got to the other hospital in time, I was told that if I decided not to come in, I would have died that day. I am so grateful, and I pray for all the families that have suffered on account of Sepsis and it not being detected in time. Please push and push for the test to be run if you are ever in the hospital. You are worth being heard, you know your pain and you know what your body is experiencing. If one place can’t help you, find somewhere that will. 

If I would have listened to the first hospital and waited until the stone passed on it’s on, I wouldn’t be here today. 

~Cable Wray

Sepsis Survivor