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Jean Shorts Send Woman To Hospital With Life-Threatening Wedgie
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By Dave Basner
Some people will go to great lengths for fash- ion, but one woman's choice of shorts wound up sending her to the hospital, and she shared her story on TikTok.
Her name
is Sam and in her video, the 25- year-old North Carolina native explained how she chose to wear tight
jean shorts on a full-day date with a guy she recent- ly met. She wrote on the clip that she had "a wedgie for 8 hours," but she didn't think much of it until the next day, when she woke up with a really sore butt.
As days went on, she felt more and more sick and
eventually went to a doctor, who gave her antibi- otics for a possi- ble skin infection on her rear. It did- n't help and the next day, she felt so bad that she couldn't walk because of a stabbing pain in her butt. She
went to the ER, where she is admitted into the ICU with what doctors diag- nosed as a bacte- rial skin infection called cellulitis that led to life- threatening septic shock.
During her week
in the ICU, she was told she might need the infected part of her butt cut off, but thankfully it didn't come to that, though she did have to show her tush to a bunch of physi- cians.
Some people will go to great lengths for fash- ion, but one woman's choice of shorts wound up sending her to the hospital, and she shared her
story on TikTok.
In a follow-up video, she explained that she wore boyshort under- wear that kept bunching
up beneath the jean shorts. Sam admitted in the comments to picking many wedgies during her date. It's those wedgies that caused her to chafe, and likely, she got a small cut. Bacteria then got into the cut, which led to the cellulitis and sep- sis.
In the end though, it wasn't all
bad. She explained that
she is still with the guy who she was dating when all of this hap- pened and they plan to tell the story at their wed- ding.
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