XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur   
   From: phister@inbox.com   
      
   "Spike"  wrote in message   
   news:f0bl2kFb8tuU1@mid.individual.net...   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > --   
   > Spike   
      
   Perhaps the person with epilepsy had bitten their tongue, supposed to put a   
   rubber guard in the mouth.   
      
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