A death certificate shows that a young race-car driver had pneumonia for “days to weeks” before complications killed him.
Kyle Busch’s untreated bacterial infection caused sepsis, leading to blood clots that choked his vital organs.
Busch then dealt with hemorrhagic shock, which caused internal and external blood loss, and his death on May 21, according to the New York Post, quoting Us Weekly.
Rumblings of problems with Busch began the week earlier, when the driver appeared unwell on May 15, following his win in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ECOSAVE 200 at Dover Motor Speedway.
He was hospitalized on May 20, with his family revealing in a statement that he was dealing with a severe illness and had to be pulled from all racing activities that weekend.
A day earlier, Busch was found unresponsive in a racing simulator.
A 911 call, obtained by The Post, requested an ambulance for the racer, who was lying on the bathroom floor “coughing up blood” the day before his death at a General Motors Charlotte Technical Center in Concord, N.C.
Oh, poor guy! Pneumonia can be quite treatable but then to let it get as far as septic shock that can be an end of the road thing right there. He was younger than me; you shouldn’t ever let your health be taken for granted.