80 Life-or-Death Moments When Gut Feelings Became Unshakeable Lifelines
Moral of the story is: get a carbon monoxide detector for every room in your house– especially bedrooms, living rooms and kitchens. Carbon monoxide is really scary, silent, and will k**l you in your sleep.
I was 14 and on holiday in Greece with family, I got ill with either sun stroke or food poisoning (same symptoms) and I spent 4 days not being able to hold down any food or water whilst being very sick, even a tea spoon of water would result in me throwing up 10x that amount but of bile.
And that morning my parents said they wanted to take me hospital but I felt fine, just couldn’t hold down food/water and really didn’t want to go so I said if I’m still sick tomorrow i would go then.
So they left for the beach and I stayed behind at the apartment, but as my dad got to the bottom of the stairs to our apartment he had a “strange” feeling that things didn’t feel right so he came back up with my mum and they took me to hospital which I was angry about.
We waited roughly a hour in the waiting room then got seen, we explained the situation and the nurses checked my veins then asked me if I had any pains/aching coming from my organs, which I did. After this they started rushing round really quick to get me on a IV drip. It took 12 attempts to get the IV in and after i was hooked up for a hour and they knew I was safe they explained that my veins had collapsed (why it took 12 attempts to get iv in) and that the aching feeling from my organs was them starting to shut down and if I had arrived hospital a couple hours later I would have died.
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