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@kimhimmel I did a lot of doctor visits, every 3 weeks after my BP started climbing then 2 weeks, etc. By the time I was admitted I was going twice a week to get fetal monitoring as well as the other stuff. I was also 46 at the time so they were keeping a very close eye on me.

@kimhimmel I got the preeclampsia diagnosis pretty much day 1 of the second trimester so a lot of the anxiety and my expectations of how delivery would go has been hashed out by the time they called it. But it was still a shock and of course anxiety reared it's ugly head. I was hospitalized...

@paulmalan The staph infection caused the sepsis. The body reacts to the infection, and this process causes inflammation throughout the body, unfortunately, sometimes this can cause damage to every system in the body, even things like organ failure. It's particularly hard on those that are...

@paulmalan I'm so sorry for your loss. Heparin is a blood thinner that is sometimes used as part of the treatment plan for staph infections. Some staph infections can be quite hard to treat as they are resistant to antibiotics. Neonates don't have much in the way of defenses against these kind...