Mr. Conor Callaghan:

I had it in March. I was in hospital for 12 weeks and I got out around the start of June. I am still struggling mentally to this day. I still cannot believe it happened. I was so fit that I had been training for a marathon just before it happened and I had no underlying conditions. I went into the accident and emergency department on that day and I asked them if it could be sepsis. They turned around and told me that I was too fit and well aware, so probably not. They said I would be okay and that I would be at home that night and on antibiotics. I had a seizure that night and things went rapidly downhill from there. The aftermath of it was probably worse than my time in hospital. I am still struggling day to day. I am only back to work full-time this week. It has been a mental battle more than a physical battle, even though I have had open-heart surgery twice. That was probably one of the easier parts of the past seven months that I have gone through.