How Awful!

While checking my e-mail and doing my usual addiction of net surfing, I discovered a terrible thing that just squeezed my heart into sorrow. As much information is available to darn near everyone, how could it have happened that little Laporshia Massey was allowed to die? I am seriously disgusted by this terrible thing! http://citypaper.net/article.php?Nurses-plan-vigil-for-Laporshia-Massey.-Family-ponders-lawsuit.-16553 Why wasn't that child armed with a rescue inhaler at all times, or was she and did it just cease to be effective? When that happens-you go to the E.R. pronto according to my learning. Such things do happen as I know from recent personal experience. I am very fortunate though, because my airways have never totally closed. I know well the misery that is felt as they narrow degree by degree, but luckily mine reaches a certain point and goes no farther(yet). Ha! Be calm the child was told. Yes, I practice calm deep slow breathing techniques(as deep as I can) and I know that for everyone such things are not enough. For me they are not enough. I have to get ahold of a substance that stimulates my CNS and encourages bronchial muscle relaxation. Dear God why does it have to fall to a nurse or lack of nurse on staff for the responsible parties at a school to take immediate action? Is bureaucratic hierarchy and protocol so much more important than life and reality? Ordinary people need to know certain things about all illnesses. Every teacher should know what to look for in impending medical emergencies. It doesn't take a heath care professional to identify signs of imminent respiratory distress, or does it? Are people so very far from awareness these days? The death of this child indicates that this is so and it is a terrible thing. I hope every person that was around that child when she began to have distress realises that an ultimate reward for such behavior is guaranteed in the moment they face their own death and I hope that no gentle slip into death is granted these people. Let it be hard. Let it be long suffering. And most definitely, let someone be there to tell them to be calm about it.