About 15 years ago I had sepsis. It struck out of the blue. In fact, the day beforehand I was pushing a wheelchair-bound friend around a park until, from one minute to the next I couldn’t take another step. We managed to get home but that night I was wakened by severe pain in my left ankle and discovered it was swollen and blue. I called 999 and by the time I got to hospital, my organs were failing. My infected ankle was drained and I was on IV antibiotics for four weeks. The culprit was Strep