Taiwanese singer Landy Wen has recounted her close brush with death after she suffered from septic shock in May.

The 46-year-old underwent 11 days of intensive treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU) before she was transferred to the general ward. She has since been discharged from hospital and took to social media on June 2 to update fans on her condition.

“What I initially thought was just a common cold turned into a tug-of-war with death while I was in a state of semi-consciousness, as I experienced the most harrowing ordeal of my life,” she wrote in Chinese.

“In the early hours of May 14, I felt excruciating abdominal pain which was accompanied by cold sweats and weakness. I was due to fly to Shanghai that day to prepare for a concert rehearsal, so I quickly contacted my manager to change my flight to a later one.”

Wen thought she would feel better after resting for a while, but her condition worsened rapidly.

“I discovered that I had a 2cm kidney stone after being rushed to the hospital’s emergency department for X-ray and CT scan,” she wrote. “It was encased in a pus-filled abscess that was blocking my urinary tract, causing a severe infection. The bacteria rapidly entered my bloodstream, triggering systemic sepsis, which then developed into septic shock.”

The doctor informed her family that her blood pressure had dropped to the 60s and her viral load had exceeded 300,000 after she was admitted to hospital.

“My condition was extremely critical as multiple organ functions were affected,” she wrote. &l...