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Hi! Glad you responded so quickly. Sorry I didn’t, I had to go do chores! (Vacuuming, like, everything. Ugh!) Yes, I do talk about you a lot, I guess. I do talk to my mom a lot and since I am on this site a lot, you come up a lot. (I talk a lot about everything, if you couldn’t tell.) (But I think my mom was joking since I can barely remember a time I was around her and she wasn’t blabbing about something or another.) (One of the characters in my book, Mikey, is exactly like that, you know?) I looked up how to pronounce your name so I didn’t say it wrong. LOL. Also, that was so evil! Have you read The Hobbit? A scene like this happened with Bilbo and Gollum!

The book says, ““What have I got in my pocket?” he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. “Not fair! not fair!” he hissed. “It isn’t fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it’s got in its nassty little pocketses?” Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask stuck to his question, “What have I got in my pocket?” he said louder,” (Tolkien 76). 

I’d be very, very shocked if he did guess me anyway! LOL, I think I have annoyed Gord to the high heavens from all of the forum posts I have made on here, but I will never stop! Also that would be very funny since this is his site and not the Wizarding World! Totally check out the channel! About that lady, that is really sad! And that medicine sounds terrifying! Imagine melting through all of the layers of skin… which is a little bit of muscle, quite a bit of fat, and everything else fascia. Wow, getting infected from scratches would be so devastating! I’m sorry for his family if that was a true story. Anyway, that is really cool.

Ruchama, how do you have cousins, like, everywhere?! It’s cool how you have cousins down here, anywho. 

Yes, the cookout was tons of fun! There was actually another one going on. However, I don’t hang with my sister a lot (she’s 29, super old) so I decided to go with her and I don’t regret it at all! A toddler was there and he was so cute. I got to hold him like I was his mom or something and it was super fun. Highly recommended.

Wanna know a medical horror story? Well, it isn’t a medical horror… it’s more like a horror that happened in a hospital. Basically, a person with jet black hair and pure white skin with no eyes and nose, I think, went into the hospital in the 40s and kept saying that they were God and there was no record of them ever existing. Also, they bit a doctor and then disappeared in the night. Nothing else is recorded of that person!

Here’s an actual medical horror story. (This is the NSTI story). A woman was shaving, and from that, she got a pimple. She popped it and didn’t think anything of it until she began to feel dizzy, nauseous, have gastrointestinal distress, and all sorts of that! She even got a fever. She went to the doctor and they prescribed her incorrectly because the disease she had was so rare! It was NSTI, and you already know what that is. (#NoMoreFascia) Anyway, by the time the doctors knew she had NSTI, her skin was rotting! She had to do an emergency surgery and they took skin from her back to replace the skin on her legs because if they didn’t, it could spread to the rest of her body and at best, she’d have to get her legs amputated. Thankfully, she didn’t have to get them amputated!

A man was a lumberjack (I think) and got a pimple on his shoulder. He thought nothing of it! After he slept that night, the pimple swelled so large it took up a lot of his shoulder so he went to the doctor. The doctor incorrectly prescribed medicine for him and the next day, the man got a 103* Fahrenheit fever! He told his wife not to call the hospital, but when he fell asleep, she did. Thankfully! If she had not he surely would have died! Turned out the man has NSTI, and all of that shoulder had to be removed. Fortunately it did not spread.

Also, water intoxication! Can you believe a woman, Jennifer Strange, back in 2007, joined a water drinking competition to win a Wii for her three children? So, after the woman drank about eight bottles of water in about three hours, she began to feel headaches and other tell-tale signs of water intoxication. She then, getting second place, left the competition and headed home. A few hours later her mother found her corpse in the bathroom, as the woman had died of water intoxication. Thankfully, her husband sued the company and got $16.5 million dollars. It was still a devastating situation.

A young athlete, Vyrees Oliver, was dehydrated after practice and got stomach cramps. He decided to drink two gallons of water and then two gallons of Gaterade all within one hour! He felt terrible afterward with a horrid migraine and went home and slept. When he woke up he felt better so he did not go to the hospital, but then he suddenly fainted and had to be taken to the hospital via. helicopter. Unfortunately, he passed away from water intoxication, only a day before he would have become a high school senior.

Man! Potatoes! Once, an entire clump of villages in Korea a few decades ago got wiped out from having to eat rotten potatoes (due to famine) and what, 382+ people died! Also, in the UK, some rotten potatoes got put in the peeler and seventy or so boys got super sick, along with a few teachers. Thankfully, nobody died, but they vomited in the hallways and had hallucinations for up to two weeks into their recoveries. Also! This is the worst one. A girl’s family in a country near Russia had a root cellar with rotten potatoes in it. One day, her dad went to get some potatoes down there but he never came back up! Then, her mom went, didn’t return, so her brother went, didn’t return, and lastly, her grandmother went and did not return. Thinking it was a prank, the girl went down there too. She found her entire family dead in the really stinkly solanine odor! Her family had all either died of lack of oxygen or solanine poisoning, unfortunately. 🙁 There was no ventilation in the cellar and thus, the solanine only became more and more in there until it was all there was in the air! Thankfully, she did not die because her grandmother had left the door open, which let the nasty solanine air fan out into some good oxygen, thus diluting it and allowing the little girl to live. She was seven.

I have more, but let me remember them! Do you want to know?

 

Be blessed,
Jade