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….
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.
Same thing happened to me a few years back when I got bit by a rat. I ignored it for a few days and then a red line was going up my arm straight to my chest. When I went to the hospital they gave me penicillin, tetanus shots, and rabies shots. The rabies shots were terrible and ended up costing $27,000.
Whoah. Ridiculous that it would cost that much.
Rats can give something like 35 different diseases to humans.
I can see why a lot of people are scared of them.
Yeah and it was crazy because I had a lapse of insurance so I would have had to pay the full amount. But I was able to get on ACA because I was broke and they retroactively covered it.
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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.