NORTH PROVIDENCE – So much of 2021 in North Providence was about finding some semblance of normalcy after a debilitating 2020, and slowly but surely, it happened, with children getting
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2/24/2021
Halpert raises money for sepsis research in honor of late father
Kayla Halpert, second from right, with her family, from left, her late father David, brother Zachary, and mother Melissa. Halpert is raising money to fund sepsis research following her father’s death.
CUMBERLAND – Kayla Halpert vividly remembers her dad, David, coming home from the hospital after a routine Thursday surgery and becoming feverish and delusional, passing out on the bathroom floor.
“We didn’t know the signs to look for,” she said, and by the time he developed full-blown symptoms of sepsis two days later, on Saturday, it was too late. By Sunday, March 22, 2020, her dad, age 50, had died at Rhode Island Hospital, three months before his daughter’s high school graduation. He also left his wife, Melissa, and son Zachary.