Dutch Mantell had a serious health scare last month due to having both sepsis and E. coli.
On a recent episode of Story Time with Dutch Mantell, the WWE Legend spoke about his recent health issues that resulted in him being given a 50/50 chance of living.
“I was sitting at home… and I couldn’t stay awake, and I kept like, just nodding off, just going out… [My daughter] said, are you okay? And she said I kept giving her gibberish answers which made no sense,” Dutch Mantell said. “And she was looking at me funny and this continued for like an hour or two.
“Finally she said there’s something wrong. And she called 911 and they came and picked me up. And I don’t even remember that… there’s bits and pieces of this whole 26-day affair that I have no recollection of. Nothing. I found out later, not only did I have sepsis, but I had E. coli too on top of that… I must have had E. coli first. And it caused the sepsis.
“When I went to the hospital… I remember bits and pieces of that. But nothing was serious to me, because I was laughing, and I was kidding, and I don’t remember hurting, but I had a fever, and I remember [medical personnel] around me, and it was like in consciousness and out of consciousness.”
Dutch Mantell was given a 50/50 chance at survival
Mantell would go on to explain what happens to the body once sepsis takes hold.
“So I started looking it up. Hell, I scared myself reading about it because if not attended to immediately, not two days later, three days later, four, if not attended to within the first 24 hours, you’ll be dead in 72, it spreads that fast,” Dutch Mantell said. “And of course, in reading, I started reading about other things, like if one organ shuts down, the next organ is going to follow soon, because they have all this message system.
“I was given [antibiotics] every three hours. And this is what I don’t remember; I was given a blood transfusion. I said, uh, what? And I do not remember that… They said they gave me a blood transfusion. So it had to be serious. And they did give me, I think I remember, they said I had a 50/50 chance [of surviving], I think… And I didn’t much like those odds, but there’s nothing I could do about them.
“But I do thank the hospital, I mean they gave me good care, expensive as hell but they kept me alive. But when somebody looks at you and says, ‘Mr. Cowan, we’re going to be honest with you, you have a 50/50 chance of surviving this.’ And they didn’t tell me [about the] sepsis then. Cause I would have freaked out because I would have recognized the word. I know it’s not good. And if they said E. coli, I’d have jumped out the window. Oh my God. But the thing that counts right now is I’m still here.”
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