Kid asthmatics love their respiratory therapists

By Rick Frea, Health Pro Tuesday, November 25, 2008

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See the accompanying comic! Kids hate being alone and when I was a ten-year-old boy in the hospital in 1980, I was no different. Since my dad worked and my mom had to manage her time between me and my siblings, I was left all alone in a dark hospital room hooked up to an IV -- again -- becau...

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whimsy

12/ 8/08 9:10pm

I remember those stupid oxygen tents. And being all along in the hospital at night in my little plastic fishbowl. AND I remember my great RT's who sympathized with me about it all. I'm finally living my dream and starting RT school.... 20 years later.

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