Teacher saves student's life with classroom lesson
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — A mother got a chance to thank her son's teacher Thursday for saving his life with a lesson plan.
Michelle Digman, a fifth-grade teacher at Pinellas Park Elementary School was showing her students how to find their pulse in class when 10-year-old Tashawn Roberts couldn't find his.
Digman tried to help.
"He says I can't find my pulse and I say let me see if I can help," Digman said. "He said, 'Well I feel something else, so we felt around his neck and there was a lump."
Digman sent Tashawn home with a life-changing assignment: to show the lump to his parents.
Tashawn was taken to All Children's Hospital, where a specialist performed an MRI and found the golf-ball-size lump was an aneurysm about to rupture. The fifth-grader underwent surgery and spent a week in the hospital before returning to school.
Tashawn's mother thanked Digman with a hug.
"Had it not been for her teaching them, God knows what would have happened," his mother said.