Dad's Sepsis Battle: From Death's Door to Marathon

0:00On March 31, a 37-year-old dad from North London named David Ross thought he just had the world's worst chesty cough after a word trip to. India, last March. Turns out it was sepsis from pneumonia in both lungs, hitting him with septic shock right after his flight home. Docs gave him only a 20% shot at survival, but he beat the odds. His partner was 37 weeks pregnant when he started coughing a blood and peeing blood, too, finally dragging himself to the Whittington. Hospital just 10 minutes from home. His brother-in-law, an NHS doctor, knew it was dire and rushed him straight to emergency care. Medics were stunned by how fast he crashed, lungs down to 20% function, hooked to a ventilator overnight as his condition tanked. Family got the brutal news, 50-50 he'd make it through the night, and if he did, recovery would be rough with a baby on the way. Weeks later, after pulling through intensive care and a long hospital stay, David walked back into the same hospital for his son Ari's birth.

1:01Nurses who treated him couldn't believe he was alive, let alone mobile so soon. Now, a year on, he's training for the London Marathon at the end of April to raise cash for the Whittington Health Charity that saved him. It's his way of turning trauma into triumph, showing his 11-month-old boy how to flip bad and to good, and the hospital chief calls his comeback, deeply inspiring.