Wednesday, March 28, 2007
By Erin QuinnTribune-Herald staff writer
BRUCEVILLE — The mile walk through the trails of Cameron Park back to the car seemed to take hours.
Omar Fagerberg’s hand was swelling up fast, and the pain was becoming unbearable.
The 17-year-old Lorena High School junior didn’t even know why his hand was swelling up as it was — to two, then three times its normal size. Soon, his arm followed — all the way up his forearm, past his elbow and then up to his bicep.
Something was seriously wrong.
Allergic reaction? Thorn prick? Bug bite?
He knew he needed to get to the hospital. Fast.
“I didn’t know what was going on,” he said. “The pain was so intense. I was way past the point of tears.”
