Overview
- Porter says a kidney stone lodged in his urethra during a hospital visit rapidly triggered urosepsis.
- He recounts being placed in a medically induced coma and says he was “three days dead.”
- Doctors connected him to an ECMO machine as his condition deteriorated.
- He reports compartment syndrome in one leg led surgeons to open both sides from knee to hip and leave the wounds open for two days to save the limb.
- Porter says he has fully recovered and reflects on missed work and earlier treatment in the U.K., including multiple antibiotic courses he now criticizes.