"Four days of hell in the hospital" - Kearns on her miscarriage

Breaking news from the field. 'Four days of hell in hospital' - Kearns on miscarriage Image source: Getty Images Image caption: Missy Bo Kearns made 11 appearances for Aston Villa in the Women's Super League this season By Bobbie Jackson, sports journalist Published 14 minutes ago England international Missy Bo Kearns says she spent "four days of hell in hospital" after suffering a miscarriage and contracting sepsis. Aston Villa midfielder Kearns and her partner Liam Walsh, who plays for Luton, announced her pregnancy on March 1, but she lost the baby later that month. Speaking to ITV News, Kearns said she felt unwell at Villa’s Bodymoor Heath training ground on March 18 and sought advice from Jodie Blackadder-Weinstein, the club’s sports doctor.

"It was one of the biggest shocks of my life," Kearns said. "I thought it was just a typical pregnancy symptom, and the doctor came in and checked my temperature... I was 42 degrees, but I was shaking.

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"We went to the hospital, and that’s when we found out right away that we had lost the baby and that I had sepsis. So, it was a shock, because I’d literally been doing Pilates and working out at the gym just an hour before, and my whole life just changed like that." Liam Walsh thanks supporters after losing baby Published April 8 'Missy told me how proud she was' Published April 13 'They probably saved my life' Kearns said she was grateful to Dr. Blackadder-Weinstein for urging her to go to the hospital.

Sepsis, which can be life-threatening and is difficult to detect, is a severe immune response to infection where the immune system overreacts and damages tissues and organs. "We had to go through about three or four days of hell in the hospital, the two of us, up in Birmingham, and I don’t think we realized how much we went through until now," Kearns said. "I’m so thankful to the doctors here at Villa, because if I’d been at home that day—and I probably would have called my mom saying, ‘Oh, I feel a bit like I have flu-like symptoms’—everyone would have just told me to ‘get some rest’ or something like that, but Jodie made me go to the hospital.

"I didn’t want to go, because there’s nothing worse than going to the hospital, obviously, but they probably saved my life because I had sepsis, and while I was going through that, I wasn’t even thinking about the sepsis. It was: I’ve lost my child—and Liam was probably thinking the same. " Kearns has visited Villa’s training ground to see her teammates and work on rebuilding her fitness, but said she is still dealing with the mental trauma.

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"I wouldn’t say I’m fully coping," Kearns said. "There are days like today where I feel good—I’ve been around the girls and doing my bike workouts, I’ve done my testing, and I’m ready to get back to it. "But yesterday, I was upset all day because I received some news about the things we need to sort out, and it just comes and goes in waves.

" Kearns acknowledges that everyone deals with grief differently but emphasized the importance of not "suffering in silence."

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