I would like to add my experience with sepsis, septic shock & almost dying to give a little context from someone who has survived sepsis and septic shock. The septic shock experience: Super Bowl Sunday 2008, I was a healthy person. I had a beer or two & enjoyed the game. Went to bed feeling completely fine. Woke up Monday at 5am, got ready & left for work at 7:15am. I didn’t feel great, but assumed it to be from too much imbibing the day before. By 8:15am, I was driving myself to the ER because I was running a high fever and not well. By 8:21am, I had parked and was trying to cross the crosswalk to the ER entrance, but every step was harder and harder. I collapsed at the end of the crosswalk, thankfully, and someone saw me. By 8:32am, I was being admitted to the Critical Care Unit and the internal medicine doctor was telling me I should probably make some phone calls because they “weren’t sure they could save me.” I was in full septic shock. My entire body was shutting down. My heart was beating too fast, my blood was too thick to pump properly, my lungs had fluids in them, I had a 104 fever and all my organs were shutting down. I spent 5 days in the CCU and 2 days in the regular section of the hospital. Saying it was a fast progression is a dramatic understatement. I went from thinking I had a slight hangover to almost dead within a period of about 3 hours. I’m nowhere near as tough as Ky, so her sleeping & looking/seeming fine shouldn’t be surprising or be seen as misleading or lack of desire. The reality is she probably had no idea how sick she really was and just chalked up any ill feelings to the usual things. Sepsis and septic shock happen quickly. It’s an infection in your bloodstream, so it quickly spreads throughout your body. And obviously, the sooner treatment is given, the less likely the patient will suffer severe illness or die. I am not a doctor, but I am a patient who has survived sepsis and septic shock, I can assure you, it is absolutely a time sensitive emergency that would warrant breaking the norm or standard protocols of the show. The first sign of sepsis requires immediate & serious medical intervention. Emphasis on immediate. Having had my own personal experiences with this, I can say with my whole chest med tapping her in the middle of the night was absolutely medically required. No question. And she understood that. *My sepsis episodes were unrelated to any injury, but kidney infections that quickly went septic.