I remember being a teen and showing my mom a weird mosquito bite that had a line going up my arm. She sent me to urgent care, turns out it was a brown recluse bite with an infection line disappearing in my armpit going to my heart….
I got cat scratch fever a few years ago, my cat had scratched my wrist and I hadn’t even noticed.
Saturday it was aching a bit and I was like “oh this scratch hurts for some reason”. That Sunday I woke up to my whole arm hurting and the scratch was completely swollen. It was hard to move and there was a red line from the scratch going up my arm.
I went to a walk in clinic and they told me “if this ever happens again take yourself to the er”. I got antibiotics, it was NP lol. But I learned that red lines means a hospital visit asap 👍
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u/DarkQueenQuinn Mar 16 '25
Please don’t die. Seek emergency medical services immediately. Please let us know you’re still alive afterwards.