Audrey Leishman was the picture of perfect health until a sickness almost ten years ago nearly ended it all.
“I just assumed it was the flu, and I would lay in bed for a couple of days,” she explained.
She was 31 and a mom of two young children at the time. Her husband, professional golfer Marc Leishman, was out of town. Audrey developed a 102° fever, severe pain, and trouble breathing. The worried family finally convinced her to go to urgent care. That’s when a nurse sounded the alarm.
“She pushed her chair back away from me, put a mask on, and said, you are very sick,” she recalled.
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Nurses put Audrey in an ambulance and rushed her to the hospital. She went straight into intensive care, where doctors hurried to figure out what was making her so sick.
“They had to place me in a medically induced coma so that I could breathe,” she said.