I Have Young Ears

Created by Train Horns

Mace and Asthma... not a good combination

Yesterday I had a terrible asthma attack while at work. Two girls started to fight in the hall during my lunch, and a few teachers came running in to the lounge covering their faces, eyes streaming. The school cop had used mace to break up these two young "ladies" and it was wafting all throughout the building. As I had already been struggling with my asthma (gotta love an insurance company that repeatedly refuses to fill a medicine that my doctor has repeatedly informed them keeps me from hospitalization) I remained in the lounge, hoping the mace would blow out through the then opened doors. I was wrong. It came in as more and more teachers felt it necessary to see what was going on. Soon I was having a hard time breathing so I took my not eaten lunch and went quickly out the front doors, coughing and hacking as I tried not to breath (and this was in the hall on the opposite side of where the mace had been used). I think having all of the doors open created a draft that created a worse situation immediately but fixed the mess after a few minutes. I had to drive home and get my nebulizer. I coughed and felt like I was going to vomit from my lungs (does that make sense?) all the way home.

I used my portable nebulizer while driving back to work (perhaps unwise, but I had 15 minutes to get home, do a ten minute treatment, and get back to school about 8 minutes from home). I returned to class just as the second bell was ringing and started teaching.

I think that this area is killing me. The pollution is not something many people talk about, but the air quality is not very good for an asthmatic. I long to breath in air that is not tainted with the exhaust from a factory burning coal. I really love the friends I have made here (don't get me wrong) but this place is killing me.

The Best Darn Dog in the World

For the record: Rosco is the best dog in the world. You might disagree with this statement, but you would be doing so in error. Were you to meet him you would undoubtedly become a member of his growing fan club.
Gabe is the President of Rosco's fan club. They are great friends and I cannot imagine a better dog for a boy than this wonderful, loyal, obedient, and kind American Pit Bull Terrier.