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When i was a little girl, i always had a need to help out people who were sick, but in grade three i had a life threatening sickness that shocked everyone.
I was in my Grade three class room one afternoon, and i was fine. There was nothing wrong with me... yet! I was playing cards with Megan when i started to have a hard time breathing.
It was weird, i couldn't breath and my face started to get all blotchy and red, my lips were going over my nose. I went to ask the teacher if i could go to the washroom and she said "not right now, we are busy" So i thought, i will be okay, maybe its just because of the smell in the room. So i sat in class another ten minutes, still having a hard time breathing until i finally told my teacher i HAD to call my mom. She said "no" again without even looking at me, i couldn't talk by now because my throat was collapsing. The special needs helper was the one who FINALLY noticed i was past out on the floor. She called my mom and my grandpa came and picked me up from school. When i got home everyone thought i was over exaggerating. My mom made me have a nap and see if i felt better once i got up.
After my mom was done work, things hadn't gotten better. I had blotches all over my body and i had hives. So my mom FINALLY decided to take me to the hospital. Once i was there i had to wait for four hours. I was sitting there and i fainted for a long time, so the doctors came and took me in right away. The first night i was there, the doctors treated it like i had an allergic reaction. So they gave me 60 needles in both my arms. I was crying and crying, it hurt sooo much and the one nurse, she punctured my vein so there was blood everywhere, which made me faint AGAIN!! They told me i could go home, and i would be better in the morning. I went home and that night it was worse!!
So my mom and Aunty drove me back to the hospital again that night. This time we went to a different hospital with actual doctors who knew what they were doing. I ended up staying five nights in the hospital. The doctor told me i had an allergic reaction to a deadly virus and that it there is a one in a million chance to get this reaction. I guess that makes me pretty special.
The doctor told me that he has only seen once case like this in all his time being a doctor and has only heard of this happening three times around the world!!
If i didn't come back to the hospital that night, and slept at home, my lungs would have collapsed and i could have died! :(
I am sooo happy that my Aunty and mom took me back to the hospital and saved my life!! :)