A woman nearly died after a cracked tooth left her fighting sepsis.
Courtney Bailey, 19, accidentally cracked her tooth after biting down on her tongue piercing while playing with her dog.
It caused an abscess, which made her vomit - spreading the infection from her gum to her throat.
Overnight, her face became "five times the size" and she was struggling to breathe.
Courtney went to hospital but was told to go to the dentist instead and was given antibiotics.
An allergic reaction to the tablets made her throat swell up more and hindered her breathing.
She rushed to hospital and was told she had sepsis and had to have an operation to remove the infection throat.
If she had come to hospital and hour and a half later she could have lost her life, she claims medics warned.
Courtney Bailey, 19, accidentally cracked her tooth after biting down on her tongue piercing while playing with her dog.
It caused an abscess, which made her vomit - spreading the infection from her gum to her throat.
Overnight, her face became "five times the size" and she was struggling to breathe.
Courtney went to hospital but was told to go to the dentist instead and was given antibiotics.
An allergic reaction to the tablets made her throat swell up more and hindered her breathing.
She rushed to hospital and was told she had sepsis and had to have an operation to remove the infection throat.
If she had come to hospital and hour and a half later she could have lost her life, she claims medics warned.
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00:00Okay, here is the long and awaited story time of what happened and how I got sepsis.
00:05So, what had happened was, um, on the Sunday last week, so the 6th of April, I had a tongue piercing, and it was a metal tongue piercing, and I have anxiety.
00:14So I was biting down on my tongue piercing, and I cracked my tooth, like, fully cracked my tooth, and my tooth went into my, like, into my gum.
00:21And I didn't think anything of it, I just thought, oh, in the morning I'll get it removed, like, because it was late at night when this happened.
00:27So I thought, right, I'll just, I'll just get it taken out in the morning.
00:31This was literally how my face went about 10-15 minutes after I'd done that to my tooth, my face swollen up instantly.
00:39So, I just took some painkillers and went back to sleep, because I was gonna get it taken out in the morning, like I said.
00:45So, the morning comes around, and my face is, like, five times the size, and severely swollen, and it was, like, it was burning to the touch.
00:54Like, you touched my face, and your fingers were very hot.
00:57I had an ice cube, actually.
00:58I put an ice cube up to it, and it melted within, like, five seconds.
01:01It was boiling hot.
01:03So, I'm panicking at this point.
01:04I'm like, whoa, like, what's going on?
01:07Because my throat, like, my tonsils, my airway was also closing because of how swollen I was getting, so I couldn't breathe properly.
01:13So, I went straight up to the hospital.
01:16Like, straight away went up to the hospital.
01:17I'm gonna have to call it Hospital A, because I cannot say any hospital names for legal reasons.
01:24If you know, you know.
01:25So, literally, within an hour, guys, my face went like that.
01:29My face, bump, it's swollen.
01:31It went, it went crazy.
01:32It went absolutely crazy.
01:34So, I go to Hospital A, and I'm like, my face is really swollen.
01:38It hurts the torch, da-da-da-da.
01:40They basically said, you're fine, you just need to go and get it taken out.
01:43So, I was like, all right, that's fine.
01:44They gave me an emergency dentist to go to.
01:46I went straight away, got booked in.
01:49I went to the dentist, and they looked at it and said, we can't do anything because you've got an infection in your mouth.
01:54We cannot, we can't operate on that because it's an infection in your mouth.
01:57So, then, the dentist proceeded to prescribe me antibiotics that I'm allergic to.
02:03I told them I was allergic to them, and they still gave me antibiotics with that allergy involved.
02:08And I'm allergic to penicillin.
02:09So, there's like a chemical inside of penicillin that's also in these tablets that I had taken, and it's the exact same.
02:14So, from that, my face, oh my gosh.
02:19This was when I took my tablets, and because I was being sick quite a lot, I got a severe infection, and I ended up getting blood poisoning, which is also known, guys, as sepsis.
02:31So, I ring 111, and I tell them my symptoms, and instantly they send me an ambulance out.
02:35But I'm like, I can make my own way up.
02:36I'm five minutes away from my nearest hospital.
02:38So, I make my own way up.
02:40My face was getting more and more swollen.
02:43Like, this here was like an infection trying to, like, push its way out of my neck.
02:49Oh my god, it's grim to think about, guys.
02:51So, yeah, I arrive at hospital number two.
02:54This was the day after, or the day, I think it was, yeah, it was the day after.
02:57I arrived at hospital two.
02:59Hospital two told me that I instantly need surgery on my throat, because, like, my airways were closing, my blood was poisoned, my blood was all delirious.
03:07Like, they quite literally said, your blood's deranged.
03:09I was like, oh, thanks.
03:12My results were absolutely, they were abominable.
03:16I do not know how I'm still alive, basically.
03:18So, I got rushed straight up to Blackburn Hospital.
03:21They saved my goddamn life.
03:22I cannot, like, I swear down.
03:26I got rushed straight up to Blackburn Hospital.
03:28I got given a bed literally within five minutes.
03:32I was seeing hospital two within ten minutes and rushed straight up.
03:35So, everything was literally, like, I was dying.
03:38I was dying.
03:39So, at this point, I can't swallow my spirit.
03:42I can't breathe properly.
03:43So, they have to instantly get me on a drip to drain whatever they could out of me, because, like, I was getting worse and worse and worse.
03:52I was deteriorating in the bed.
03:54So, eventually, they get me stable.
03:56They get everything stable.
03:57I'm calm.
03:59And then I go sleep.
04:01I wake up, and they tell me, you need your operation right now.
04:05Let's go.
04:05So, then I go and get it.
04:07So, they made an incision in my neck, and they had to drain all of the infection out of my neck.
04:14I'll, uh, show.
04:14Then they had to put a bag on my neck.
04:16So, here I am with a bag on my neck.
04:19This was collecting, like, this was my drainage.
04:22So, they'd got, like, the main part out of my operation, and then they had to drain it for a bag.
04:28They, like, basically took it off.
04:30Like, they, uh, un-velcroed it at the bottom and just drained it.
04:34But it got filled up with, like, a lot of disgusting stuff.
04:39Here I am.
04:39Still smiling, because I was so grateful to be alive.
04:42But, yeah, this is what I mean.
04:43Like, my blood had gone a very odd colour.
04:47It had gone a very odd colour.
04:48I'm going to have to try and cover this the best I can.
04:50But I basically had two tubes coming out of my neck.
04:53They were draining into the bag.
04:55I then got my bandage put on, and I was crying happiness because I survived.
04:59And this is what it currently looks like underneath this bandage.
05:02I've got, like, a little incision in my neck.
05:04Um, it's still, obviously, got the infection in.
05:07But I'm on, uh, I'm on so many meds to bring it down.
05:11My blood is stable.
05:12It's okay.
05:13My white blood cells are for it.
05:14I'm back.
05:15I survived.
05:16But that's basically what happened.
05:18So, because I was basically neglected by Hospital A and the dentistry,
05:23I am going to try and, like, do something about it.
05:25I don't know if I will yet, but I'm going to try.
05:27Like, I've got, I've got a thought of it because it was so bad what they did.
05:30They literally left me to rot.
05:32They left me to rot.
05:33Like, there's no other way about it.
05:35But thank you for everyone that came along.
05:37If you want to stick along with my TikTok, I am, like, I'm not a creator,
05:41but I'm a pretty, I'm a pretty vibey person.
05:43Like, I was in hospital, and I didn't even care that I,
05:46I cared I was in hospital, obviously.
05:48But, like, my condition, I wasn't letting it actually bring me down.
05:51I'm a really bubbly person.
05:52But stick along, guys.