80 Life-or-Death Moments When Gut Feelings Became Unshakeable Lifelines
The next day at school during Library I looked up a book about snakes (pre-internet days) and there was a picture of the snake I had brought home – not the harmless water snake I had thought, but a water moccasin, aka cottonmouth. A snake that could have very easily killed a young child.
So yeah, looking back I realize how utterly stupid I had been and how easily it could have gone terribly wrong. Or maybe nothing would have happened and I’m just making a big deal of a scary dream. I don’t know, but I like to think something was watching out for me that night.
I’m not used to going to the doctor or hospital when I feel sick. 4 years ago, I had a very very bad stomach ache, no matter what position I’m in, it hurts like hell, I throw up even a gulp of water. Couldn’t sleep all night. Thought it was a food poisoning or something and kept recalling what I ate.
Called my brother early in the morning to ask him what he thinks? Does he know if there’s any tea or medicine that can calm my pain? He’s no doctor and knows nothing about medical stuff, yet he’s my big brother, I always assume he knows it all x)
He insisted that I go to the ER immediately !! As such pain isn’t normal and shouldn’t last that long (also thought it was food poisoning) ! And I listened to him ! Turns out it was appendicitis!! I had the surgery and all went well. But had I waited more, things might’ve turned out really bad.
Moral of the story: something wrong? Check a doctor!
I had sprained my ankle in the beginning of November and was diagnosed with COVID-19 at the end of November. Those two things (along with taking an oral contraceptive) led to massive blood clots forming in my leg and breaking off and traveling to my lungs.
Before I knew about the blood clots I was experiencing major pain in my leg and had told my parents, but they both insisted it was just my sprained ankle that was causing the pain. My gut told me something more was wrong, so I ended up going to the ER. It was there that the blood clots were found, and I was treated in the hospital for three days.
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