Dolomite lime just about killed me when I was a teen. I reached in to scoop some and took a big cloud in the face and I got so much in my lungs I couldn’t breathe. I ended up getting pneumonia from it.
The funny part was when mom called the ER to ask about it before I went in, at first they were treating it as a poison control issue, not a congestion issue. They were saying “she breathed what? Lime powder? Like the fruit? Like you make lemonade with? We don’t find anything to indicate that would be poisonous. “No - lime stone” - like they make sheet rock out of” “And how did she breathe that?” “She was putting it in a horse stall” “We’re not finding limestone in the poison database either”. “Did she eat it?”
Anyway, I remember the conversation because it was such a complete cluster_____.... They had no idea what it was. We just went in, my chest hurt so bad I felt like I was having a heart attack.
Sounds about right. Probably wouldn’t be much better now in these ER’s around here.
My 2 childhood ER memories are from drinking bleach (I was undernourished like a football) and landing on my elbows in hot coals from a grill after being told not to go near it. Not much has changed from that either. I’ll still drink or eat abt anything and do anything I get told not to.