Infection By conor, garrett, and nathAn
One day, Suzy Mayfield was visiting her aged and decrepit and dying grandmother in the Always Springtime Retirement Home. But living conditions in this retirement home weren't up to standard and when she arrived she noticed blisters and boils on the skin of her grandmother.
As they talked, time slipped by and three hours later Suzy needed to leave for work. “Before you go,” her grandma chimed in, “give your ol’ grandma a kiss on t’cheek.” Reluctantly, she gave her grandmother a kiss on her old, withered, and blister-specked cheek. Unfortunately, the pressure of the kiss popped one of the cheek blisters. Unbeknownst to her, she had just contracted a bacteria that would lead to a Staph infection.
At school, she met with her drug dealer friend, Haji Ardashir, who called her over to the dark in which he was hiding. “Hey Suzy,” he said, “I got the new shipment.” Once the exchange was made in a brief amount of time, the opium was rushing through her veins and clogging her sinuses.
The thick hot smoke killed the hairs in her nose and dried the mucus in her nose, which were both important nonspecific defenses. (A non-specific defense is a defense that protects the body from bad cells, but has another use also, like skin.) They weren't the only defenses killed, though. Throughout her body T-cells and B-cells, two types of white blood cells that are important for teaching the body how to fight new diseases, were killed by the opium.
This means new antibodies to fight off the Staph Infection could not be made by the B-Cells because they were dead. The Staph Infection was spreading fast, but luckily Suzy’s opium addiction didn't kill one very important cell, the phagocyte. This cell devours foreign cells and eats them. Unfortunately, this one cell was not enough. She passed away the next day. The papers had a short obituary included, which read: “Suzy Mayfield, 15, is survived by her three dead cats and nonexistent pony. Amen.” It was written hurriedly by Pastor Morris.
