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WITH ME, KATY GRAINGER

I am a multiple amputee because I didn’t understand the signs and symptoms of sepsis. I consider it my mission to educate people on how to know the difference between feeling like you have the flu and understanding that you’re in a medical emergency and need to get to the hospital immediately.

I am also spreading awareness about disability and limb loss through social media, speaking engagements, and articles to help normalize body differences. The more people see disability and learn and talk about it, the more they understand it and normalize it. This is why I’ve expanded into modeling and acting, hoping that my body differences can inspire others.

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I have been sharing my personal and inspiring story as a national speaker at corporations such as Microsoft, bioMerieux, T2 Biosystems and Edwards Lifesciences. My aim is to educate communities online as well as offline. With a background in sales and marketing, experience in fundraising, a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology and a love for inspiring others, I feel like my whole life has been leading me here.

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“Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection that can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and death. In other words, it’s your body’s overactive and toxic response to an infection. Like strokes or heart attacks, sepsis is a medical emergency that requires rapid diagnosis and treatment. Sepsis can lead to severe sepsis and septic shock. Your immune system usually works to fight any germs (bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites) to prevent infection. If an infection does occur, your immune system will try to fight it, although you may need help with medication such as antibiotics, antivirals, anti-fungals, and anti-parasitics. However, for reasons researchers don’t understand, sometimes the immune system stops fighting the “invaders,” and begins to turn on itself. This is the start of sepsis.”

-Sepsis Alliance

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Katy Grainger is a phenomenal woman who has overcome so many obstacles through her journey with sepsis. Katy joined the Board of Directors of the sepsis alliance before the pandemic as an advocate for sepsis awareness. She shares her story to highlight this important public health crisis. She is one of the nations leading advocates for sepsis awareness in the united states. She has made an impact in medical policy by speaking to policy makers in Washington DC and continues to educate many people around the world.

Katy is an amazing lady! I’m so blessed to have became friends with her! She is a wonderful advocate for sepsis, spreading sepsis awareness, awareness for post sepsis syndrome, and long covid by serving on the Board of Directors of the Sepsis Alliance, doing podcasts, Instagram lives by telling her story of survival and becoming an amputee. She is also a lead advocate for the Amputee Coalition. I have had the honor of presenting with her during the Amputee Conference, Enhancing Skills for Life for bilateral amputees and on World Sepsis Day! She is an amazing example to others to demonstrate that no matter what you are faced with, you fight to survive and gain your life back! My life has certainly been blessed with her knowledge and passion to save lives from this deadly syndrome that is taking lives every day! The world is a better place with Katy in it!!

They say in life we create our own paths and are joined along the way by other individuals, whether it be for just a moment or a lifetime. Sometimes we meet these people to be the educator or to be educated by them. I am definitely learning from Katy. She is one of those spectacular women that has come into my life as role model and someone I will always look up to. Although she is a below the knee amputee she can drive, swim and hike and goes about life with this incredible aura. Her go-get-it attitude is infectious and motivates myself and other people all around the world to simply live life to the fullest and never take the simple things for granted.

"Katy Grainger is a most exceptional individual. I met her through her volunteer work with the Sepsis Alliance. She is now a big part of our Board of Directors! Never have I had someone express in such vivid terms the consequences of the journey through sepsis and amputations.With her positive attitude she demonstrates how a person can come out stronger after recovering from trauma. She is one of the most remarkable individuals I have met. She has dedicated herself not only to make herself well and better in her new norm, but is inexhaustibly on a mission to help others. The things she does across many venues and platforms makes her a top request to share her story and strength to help others! Bless her Heart!"