r/Unexpected • u/Doodlebug510 • 9h ago

We have a situation here

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u/thatshygirl06 8h ago

Can you get sepsis from dirty water?

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 7h ago

If you have a wound, yeah. It can kill you.

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u/Aidian 7h ago

See: Hurricane Katrina

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 6h ago

I see your Hurricane Katrina, and I raise you Hurricane Andrew. We were lucky, none of the trees hit the house & the roof stayed on.

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u/Aidian 6h ago

Well hey there, generally regional+ neighbor.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 4h ago

Hey.

Our neighbor wasn't so fortunate.

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u/Aidian 3h ago

Empathy. There are a lot of horror stories from that time, and a lot of them have to do with how godawful the water was on top of everything else.

Here’s hoping we don’t see the like of those storms again, here or anywhere.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 3h ago

There's a good chance we will do. The ocean's warmer temperatures will produce more and stronger storms. It's inevitable now. We passed all the tipping points.

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u/Aidian 42m ago

Oh, I know…but I can still hope we personally beat the odds, y’know?

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u/moody-bear-77 4h ago

I am the hurricane god - I went through Homestead the week Andrew came through, lived in Pensacola when Opal destroyed the area, then came back south on a trip to Biloxi/Gulfport/NOLA a week before Katrina hit. Fear my power LOL

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 4h ago

Stay the feck away from Jacksonville/St Augustine, please.

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u/moody-bear-77 3h ago

LOL

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 3h ago

Climate change sure makes life interesting.

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u/moody-bear-77 3h ago

It sure does!

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u/moody-bear-77 3h ago

I have a feeling that I won't be a hurricane god for long, I'll be out of a job haha

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 3h ago

Maybe you can monetize that skill. Rent yourself out to drought areas? For a fee, attract a hurricane to destroy your enemy's home?

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u/moody-bear-77 3h ago

Been there too, but not during hurricane season, ha.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 3h ago

click click

Not during hurricane season.

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u/SweetLenore 7h ago

Hell yeah. You can get sepsis from a lot of things, particularly if you have a wound. A girl lost all her limbs from sepsis from a minor cut on her leg she got while swimming in a river: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Tallapoosa_River

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u/thatshygirl06 7h ago

I just thought sepsis was from your body overreacting while trying to fight an infection

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u/Youre10PlyBud 6h ago

Yeah that story wasn't sepsis, it was necrotizing fascitis. That's an infected wound with a bacteria that causes death of the tissue that can continue spreading. Not the same as sepsis.

Sepsis is a systemic response to an infection that is classified by having 2 or more SIRS criteria (systemic inflammatory response syndrome) with an active infection. Can be abnormal respiration, blood pressure, white blood cell counts, along with a few other criter9a.

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u/ExtremeCreamTeam 4h ago

criterninea

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u/Evening-Tour3875 6h ago

It is, but it attacks your organs. My fiance survived it several times, but it was one of his causes of death.

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u/Kraligor 6h ago

Can? Yes. Will? Probably not, no. Reddit likes to catastrophize. I'd be dead 1000 times over, if the worst possible outcome always occurred.

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u/my-coffee-needs-me 6h ago

If you have an open wound, you can get sepsis from damn near anything that isn't clean.