Parenting Tips: Young Dad Podcast
Jul 13, 2026 · 57 min · 10 segments
Sepsis is fast, deadly, and often misdiagnosed — and when hospitals don’t listen, parents pay the price.In this powerful episode, Risa shares her family’s real-life nightmare after her son, Nicholas…
And I think a lot of the elements, like one of the key things I think to touch on here, and we'll touch on a bunch of things, but I think the first and foremost, right, is when we're told by medical professionals, like, oh, yeah, it's just a virus.
Like, he'll be fine kind of thing.
Like, we trust that.
Like 90 plus percent.
Right.
So it's like, OK, they took their test.
They did their things.
Probably fine.
It's interesting, though, because if you go back and you research and you look up about septic shock, if they would have done the urine test, they could have caught it.
Well, it would have
shown up in the urinary tract.
At least it can show up there.
Sure.
Probably about after Nicholas probably had four or five surgeries and we're on about day 11.
I asked somebody, I said, I need you to tell me what happened.
48 hours before we came here, they told us it was a virus.
And one of the doctors pulled me aside and started showing me those records from the I who am not a doctor could tell that the EKG was, he should have had a cardio consult.
He was already having cardiac issues.
Because it said on there, consider, you know, these things.
His bilirubin was already high.
His kidney function, he was in stage three kidney failure.
She chose to ignore those.
His blood pressure was low.
His heart rate was high.
His blood pressure was low.
And I think a lot of the elements, like one of the key things I think to touch on here, and we'll touch on a bunch of things, but I think the first and foremost, right, is when we're told by medical professionals, like, oh, yeah, it's just a virus.
Like, he'll be fine kind of thing.
Like, we trust that.
Like 90 plus percent.
Right.
So it's like, OK, they took their test.
They did their things.
Probably fine.
It's interesting, though, because if you go back and you research and you look up about septic shock, if they would have done the urine test, they could have caught it.
Well, it would have
shown up in the urinary tract.
At least it can show up there.
Sure.
Probably about after Nicholas probably had four or five surgeries and we're on about day 11.
I asked somebody, I said, I need you to tell me what happened.
48 hours before we came here, they told us it was a virus.
And one of the doctors pulled me aside and started showing me those records from the I who am not a doctor could tell that the EKG was, he should have had a cardio consult.
He was already having cardiac issues.
Because it said on there, consider, you know, these things.
His bilirubin was already high.
His kidney function, he was in stage three kidney failure.
She chose to ignore those.
His blood pressure was low.
His heart rate was high.
His blood pressure was low.
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