[Igraine]

These stories make me so mad I can't see straight. The only effect an asthma inhaler has is to open the breathing tubes back up to their normal width. Why a device that helps people breath normally is "controlled" in the first place is beyond me.

There was a case a few years ago in New Orleans when a high-school girl died because her school wouldn't let her use her asthma inhaler, which was locked in the school nurse's office. As she became more distressed, she asked someone to call an ambulance, but the officials refused because they could not reach her mother on the phone to ask her permission.

Reason #43,947 no child of mine will ever step foot in a public school.

[donmeaker]

At work a few years ago, a contractor had a stroke. It was recognizable in that his speech was slurred, he walked with a limp, and his lip drooped. I had one of our guys drive him to the hospital (we lived in a small town 30 miles from the hostpital). After I sent them off, I called our safety office to report.

I was reprimanded. I should have had him walk down to the nurses office, and wait there for the ambulance to drive 30 miles out from the hospital, and then the other 30 miles back. Of course before he would be allowed to get in the ambulance, he would be given a quck check, another 15 minutes. I visited him that weekend, and the doctor said that if I had followed the company policy, "Bill" would have had lasting damage.

Well, "Bill" got to the hospital in 20 minutes from when I told people to go. He spend a week in intensive care, with oxygen and on blood thinners. The blood clot in his head dissolved, and he came back to work two months later.

You have to be willing to do the right thing, though Hell stands against you. I would be glad to have a kid like that in my family.

Be Proud!