Reply #20: When I was a kid far too many years ago, there was no school nurse [View All]

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It was weeks after I had a third degree burn to my foot, when an incident at school caused the healing scar tissue over the burned area on my foot to be pulled off. Then entire top surface of my foot began bleeding. They sat me in the school office next to a secretary and I sat there while she located my mother on the phone and told her to come get me. I remember watching my shoe fill with blood and a pool of blood collect around my feet. Oddly enough I never felt light headed or queasy.

I know there was no serious danger of me bleeding to death - there was much less danger for me than there was for the school officials that could not even be bothered to wrap a towel around the foot or to prop the foot higher than my heart. My mother was that angry I heard her lay into the people in the office as she took me out. After she took me to the doctor to get a proper bandage and antibiotics, she took me home and called the principal, a school board member and a county commissioner and laid into them.

I always felt sorry for the janitor who had to clean up the mess.