XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur   
   From: Aero.Spike@mail.invalid   
      
   On 25/08/2017 21:34, Roger Hayter wrote:   
   > Spike  wrote:   
      
   >> Unless there's more to it or I am misunderstanding something, one has to   
   >> wonder about the wisdom of taking a vulnerable child who is prone to   
   >> epileptic episodes to a remote location with no mobile phone coverage.   
      
   > Normally there is no need to panic when someone with epilepsy has a fit.   
   > There are exceptional fits that need medical intervention, and   
   > exceptional individuals who have severe fits;  but generally a child   
   > with epilepsy can lead a normal life.   And if they have a fit they can   
   > just sleep it off.    I don't know anything about why the particular   
   > individual in the event in  question needed  medical help, or how easily   
   > this could have been predicted.   
      
   Which, of course, only strengthens the case for preparing properly,   
   rather than running about in the dark, waving a mobile phone and hoping   
   to find a signal, at a time when the situation has turned ugly.   
      
      
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   Spike   
      
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