“It was feeling like somebody just stuck their hand inside my stomach and was twisting,” Tanya Garcia said. “I couldn't eat. I had no strength. I was so depressed and so scared. ‘Am I going to live like this the rest of my life, am I ever going to have a normal life? What am I going to do?’”

“In the middle of August, my stomach started swelling and getting hard as a rock, and just very, very bad cramps inside,” Tanya said. “I thought maybe I was having a heart attack because my heart was just pounding. I was literally holding on to the walls. ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.’ And that's when I went to the emergency room.”

“My cousin has had sepsis multiple times, so when I went into the emergency room, I asked them to check me for sepsis,” Tanya said. “They said, ‘Yes, you do. You're v

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