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Originally Posted by Texian
Dude, you have asthma. Live with it.
The same thing has kept me out of the U.S. Military, but not from being successful at things asthmatics are not supposed to be able to do. It hasn't kept me from serving my country either. There are other equally honorable ways to serve. All you have to do is look. Not everyone can be high speed, and not everyone has to be so.
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Edited by Razor: Are you doing multiplication tables here, or just can't find the words to say 'I agree'?
I had really bad childhood asthma and was able to just stop taking my meds around 7th grade. I wanted to be a SF medic and did the Pulmonary function test but was still unable to get a waiver.
I went on to work as a civilian EMT before getting my RN. But guess what my asthma returned suddenly and I even went down on a run. We had pulled an elderly lady out of her burning house and I actually went down in the hallway of the ER 30 minutes later. I remember my "buds" arguing over who got to tube me.
I have tried to get into the Nurse Corp after 9-11 but still cannot get a waiver oven though I did another PFT that wasn't bad. I don't like it but I understand it. If I had gone down in the burning house we would all have been in a world of shit as my partner would have had to get 2 patients out.