A Winnipeg sepsis survivor says he wants to see Manitoba follow Nova Scotia's lead and change how it treats the condition that almost killed him nine years ago.
"I came out of this in many ways a better person, but it was at a huge cost to me and my family for a period of time," Mac Horsburgh told CBC News.
Horsburgh collapsed after a cyst on his finger was misdiagnosed as an inflammation and left untreated for days. The infection got into his bloodstream, weakened a vessel and created an aneurysm that ruptured.
At the time he was experiencing the most severe stage of sepsis — an extreme physical response to an infection that can cause organ failure, tissue damage and death.
Horsburgh’s doctors told his family they were not optimistic he would live. But after surgery, 10 days in a coma, three weeks in an intensive care unit and more than a week in a recovery unit, Horsburgh was discharged.
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