Two years ago when Katie Blinoff was around 30 weeks pregnant, she thought a call to her father was the last phone call she was ever going to make.
After telling her dad she loved him, she hung up the phone and was placed in an induced coma.
Just weeks away from giving birth, Ms Blinoff went to a midwife appointment as usual but was taken to emergency when she collapsed and starting having a seizure.
Ending up in ICU at Campbelltown Hospital, in Sydney’s southwest, Ms Blinoff was told she had influenza and spent the next week in intensive care recovering.
However, one week later, she returned to the hospital with an infection in her uterus.
After vomiting up blood and struggling to breathe, the heavily pregnant mum based in Thirlmere, a rural town in NSW, called for an ambulance.
“I was in septic shock. I was sitting on the shower floor with my partner, we’d called an ambulance but we live in a small country town so ambulances obviously take a little while to get here,” she said.
“My partner’s just trying to keep me calm and by this point, I’m trying not to wake my two other kids up,” Ms Blinoff said.
The mother of three was taken back to Campbelltown Hospital where she describes being in a “haze of extreme pain” and going in and out of consciousness.
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