Within days Matthew Small and his family members began feeling ill, but they recovered. His fight was much harder.
The Levittown man who spent weeks in an Ireland ICU and nearly died from sepsis is finally back home.
"Besides the fact that I lost a lot of weight due to the fact I was bedridden, I feel pretty close to normal," he said. "It's nice to be back in a place where I know where everything is, I know my routine." Within days Small and other family members began feeling ill, but they recovered. His fight was much harder.At one point, the family said a doctor in Ireland said Small was classified as, "the sickest person in all of Ireland."
He was diagnosed with strep, Influenza A, and pneumonia. Those three infections combined led to sepsis, which then led to multi-organ failure.
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