CONCORD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WOIO) - A third grader at Parkside Elementary School had a near-death experience.
The child’s mom is thanking the school nurse who made a life-saving discovery.
Her mother, Kassie Machado, now advocates for schools to have nurses.
She believes they are a must.
“I really can’t express this enough... I wish every school would have a school nurse because if she hadn’t been here, it would not have been caught and I could have lost my little girl,” said Machado.
Rachel Ocampo, the school’s licensed nurse, told Machado she needed to get her daughter, Mia, to the doctor right away.
She believed she was anemic.
The doctor confirmed she was.
“I took her up to Senders Pediatrics and they took one look at her and said she needs to go to the ER now. I took her up. They drew her blood. They came back with her hemoglobin at a level three. They told me she could have not just woken up if we had not brought her in,” said Machado.
“When she came in, I took one look at her and said, ‘lie down.’ She had no blood vessels underneath her eyes... No redness. Her fingers - there was no cap refill,” described Ocampo.
With her knowledge and expertise, Ocampo was quickly able to identify the signs of anemia.
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