[DonQ]

I can give a little story of my own, which goes back to Miami circa 1973. My father was mowing in the yard and ran the mower into a crocus shrub, whose poisonous sap splashed into his face. He has an immediate allergic reaction and staggered back in the house. My mother tried calling the official local poison control hotline, which was run by Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital. Guess what, that day/hour, the ONLY people in the poison control office spoke ONLY Spanish. My mother started to panic and started calling other emergency services and like that. (I was away at college at the time). My father finally got treated at a doctor's office about two blocks from home and recovered completely. Evidently my mother wasn't the only one with this experience; the Miami Herald published several similar complaints about the same poison control number.

[Brownie74]

I am glad your father recovered OK. Things are getting almost that way here in Texas.