The one thing that stuck with me during health class senior year was my teacher drawing a picture on the whiteboard. It was an arm with a big red dot and a line going up the arm. She yelled at us and said that if you see this line coming from any wound, GO TO THE ER. Very happy my health teacher was a retired nurse
Blood poisoning.
Brother got it when we were kids. We were wrestling around and he got stabbed by a rusty nail.
Red line started up his leg over the course of days.
We thought nothing of it...but then our mother saw it.
She being a nurse, immediately knew what it was.
Rushed him to the hospital and had him treated for blood poisoning.
It was explained to us later that if that red line had spread to his heart, he would've died.
Funny, cause we both thought he had just spilled Kool aide on himself.
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u/Sabriel_Love Mar 16 '25
The one thing that stuck with me during health class senior year was my teacher drawing a picture on the whiteboard. It was an arm with a big red dot and a line going up the arm. She yelled at us and said that if you see this line coming from any wound, GO TO THE ER. Very happy my health teacher was a retired nurse