Our personal health is just that—personal. But I feel the need to share a personal health event hoping others will benefit. Recently, I was hospitalized for three weeks with a severe case of the total body infection sepsis. Later, hospital nurses told me sepsis infections are fairly common, and separately, several friends shared stories of middle-aged people dying of sepsis. If treated in time, that should not have happened. My sepsis symptoms were not specific, but going to the emergency room a day or two earlier, might have prevented this life-threatening event. Don’t suffer in silence. Sepsis can and does kill. Share your symptoms with someone close to you. In my case, my wife, Judy, gets credit for me being here to tell my story.