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Ask any doctor what a "rescue inhaler" is and they'll repond "albuterol inhaler." Anyone with moderate to severe asthma will carry one with them. They are bulky and sometimes you will forget. Believe me, you will seek out a buddy when you need one and can't find your own.

As much as I have lawsuits, I think this is time to sue the school district and the nurse. Asthma is common enough that any school will have a few asthmatic students. Why didn't they have a rescue inhaler available? If she was having an attack, why didn't the nurse call an ambulance? An attack can be a life-threatening event. How did the nurse make her "diagnosis?" Did she use a pulse-ox device? Did she use a breath meter to determine the amount of airflow?

Sue them and chances are, they will back down.

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Make that "hate" lawsuits

[Stinkerbell]

agreed....if that was my daughter that the nurse was ignoring I would be sueing to say the least. That nurses arrogance put the girls life in danger. She should be brought up on charges, she's incompetent and a danger to all students.

[Braak]

Worse, was she even an RN? Or was she an LPN? She sure wasn't a nurse practicioner who would have done the same thing. Twenty-Two years ago, when I was a young sprout, I had a freind who keeled over from a pretty bad attack in the middle of recess, I didn't have asthma, but two of my freinds did, and they gave him their inhalers until the base EMS arrived. As for me, I just held his hand and screamed at him to focus on me. (this was in Rota, Spain). Did we get suspended, no, our third grade teacher commended us and paid for milk and cookies out of her own pocket, godbless.

This school board has it's head up it's 4th point of contact for SURE!