Teacher Saves Boy’s Life

This is an amazing story. The teacher – the hero, is my (pseudo) cousin. In fact, some of you may remember her because she used to post on here as Jess&Wes. You can watch the video of the news segment by clicking on the “source” link at the bottom of the post.

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL — “I’ve got legos at home”. At home, it’s playtime for three year-old Joey. But at school this week he learned an important lesson. His teacher, Jessica Parr, at Saint Juliana Catholic School saved his life.

On Wednesday, Joey and his classmates were outside. “We were on the playground and I noticed that Joey had popped something into his mouth, when I went over to ask him he showed me one of the seeds”. Parr was able to get one of the seeds she found and take it to the school’s health clinic to see if it was from a poisonous plant. Her suspicions were confirmed. She saw it on the list as a seed from a poisonous plant.

Parr says, “I saw it was the rosary seed and that’s when I called Poison Control and informed them what the seed was and they questioned whether he had chewed it or swallowed because it’s worse when he chews it”.

Joey was rushed to the hospital and remained there for eight hours for observation. Doctors say Joey will be fine. But if untreated, it could have been fatal. “I am lucky because I have 19 kids in my class, so thank God I happened to be standing close by”. Joey’s mother says Parr is his guardian angel. “In the middle of the night I woke up two or three times and just kissed him and gave him a big hug”.

Coincidentally, today was teacher appreciation day. Joey gave his guardian angel her own angel to watch over her. “You don’t know how precious it is. I am so thankful”.

Joey’s mother says she plans to hand out information about the rosary pea seed to parents in his school.

Source.

I found this great site last night after I got her email about poisonous plants and their parts. Very scary!