shock syndrome.
I got toxic shock because I was using a super-absorbent
tampon and I probably should have just been using a junior-
sized tampon. I didn’t even know how to really use it right. I
had the applicator in there and everything.
I went through the school day, I got home from school,
and then I took the tampon out. I was itching and
scratching all over. I just felt so sick. I was telling my mom,
and my mom was like:
Mama: “She’s just faking. She not sick. She’s just
faking.”Grandma: “She got a fever though, she got a fever.”Mama: “She all right. She going to be mne. Just take
this Herbalife. ͳat’s what you need to do, just take
this Herbalife.”To this day, I hate Herbalife because of this incident. She
was making me swallow these pills, but soon as I swallowed
them, I threw them up. Anything I drank—water, juice,
whatever—I threw up.
Mama: “Oh, she acting. She acting. Stop acting like
you sick. Stop acting like you got a problem. You just
acting.”ͳen she whipped me. ͳat whipping hurt, but it also
felt so good, because my body was so itchy. Every time the