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by Jayce Schneider, English 7, Mrs. Didrikson

Third Grade ER Visit

I was in third grade (just before the Christmas of 2014) when I started developing a peculiar, red, rash on my legs, on top of that, my knees and my ankles were getting swollen. My legs and ankles would get worse over the course of the school day until they looked like giant baseballs. I went to the school nurse early that day, and she decided to wrap my ankles in Ace Tape to compress the swollen parts. The swollenness moved up my legs. It was so hard to walk, my mom had to carry me part of the way out to the car.

We went...