Imagine going into work, doing your job like any normal week, but one day tripping over a power cord, resulting in the need for 10 pints of blood.
Debbie Meyers, a volume control representative for a natural gas company, went to work on a Wednesday not knowing her life would change forever. As she was walking to her desk, she tripped over a temporary power cord and hit the arm of her chair as she fell. Her co-workers rushed her to a nearby hospital where she was told she had bruised ribs.
“I remember just thinking how embarrassed I was that I tripped,” Meyers said. “I kept saying to myself, ‘I can’t believe I just did that.’”
Taking a few days off to relax and recuperate, Meyers was scheduled to go back to work the following Monday. But, she woke up earlier that morning with dizziness and pain in her side and called an ambulance.
“I don’t remember a lot after that,” Meyers said. “I was rushed back to the emergency room, where I found out I had a ruptured spleen. I had been bleeding internally for five days. I had an emergency splenectomy and received 10 pints of blood during the operation.”
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