I’m sorry I am not a moderator so I was blocked from responding to the original post, but since I have something to say about this, I opened another thread here.
And the AICD was where? In the back of a locker in the school that’s a few miles away? And the operator of the equipment (if there is one) was maybe home watching a good TV program? And since when is CPR a substitute for an AICD?
It’s bad enough that we lose kids who have never been diagnosed with HCM – how can we still find doctors who will authorize competitive sports for HCM patients – and what kind of parents would allow there (now dead) child to play any competitive sport in the first place? Do you think they will ever realize that they contributed greatly to their own child’s death? (Well, it was only a mild case – and now he is only a little dead.)
It’s enough to make a grown man weep.
Burt
And the AICD was where? In the back of a locker in the school that’s a few miles away? And the operator of the equipment (if there is one) was maybe home watching a good TV program? And since when is CPR a substitute for an AICD?
It’s bad enough that we lose kids who have never been diagnosed with HCM – how can we still find doctors who will authorize competitive sports for HCM patients – and what kind of parents would allow there (now dead) child to play any competitive sport in the first place? Do you think they will ever realize that they contributed greatly to their own child’s death? (Well, it was only a mild case – and now he is only a little dead.)
It’s enough to make a grown man weep.
Burt
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