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...and those are the good qualities...

Yup

Yes - took my kid almost 7 years to get through that nonsense

You would need to have the doc write a formal letter (likely at further cost unfortunately) to reiterate that it was for a brief illness and has never in fact had any issues with asthma like symptoms before or since, as well as have your son (not you) send in an appeal letter with it. Problem...

As he should have...

Seen people stab themselves more than once with Epipens or the old atropine-oxime autoinjectors - lack of SA as to (a) direction weapon pointed and (b) that safeties were out...

We had a scary one in a Base Hospital I worked in where the person had an anaphylactic reaction to a sting or food I think, then got a tad better but got worse and worse despite epinepherine...turns out they were allergic to the sulfite preservative in the epinepherine...so a wonderful cycle of...

My first job out of the military was in a small farming community 30 minutes to any hospital in any direction - I always prescribed the injectors in pairs (or used TwinJects when they were available), as it really only buys you about 20 minutes - I have evacuated people out of the woods and such...

When I was in Recruiting, the CEMS wasn't the issue, the moving target was and will continue to be about the conditions people have/had and how to view them in the occupational and operational medicine spectrums...and were a moving target even to serving members when it came to retention vs TCat...

It's still before midnight where I am...

Either way, both before photos...afters look a tad different.

A few other people beat me to it, but stuck in the back of a plane where you may or may not have the ability to land somewhere quickly to deal with an anaphylaxis beyond shooting you with your epipen is definitely a bad thing - seen many people shit the bed as it were from anaphylaxis even when...

Given how apparently entry standards are a moving target at the moment it seems, if you are applying as a skilled enrollee, they might be putting the application aside? As for how to appeal, write a letter to the Recruit Medical Officer with data from your allergist regarding the type of...

I did have some folks that were on a "Workfare" program - they collected Welfare/social assistance, but did (had to do) "x" number of volunteer hours/week/month to stay on the rolls, essentially working for their dole. Was a bit difficult admin wise, but we had a good Admin Officer to deal with...

Assuming the agencies they already work for will let them take time off - as an ex SJA Division Superintendent in a military town, I always worried about how something like this would shape our response when half my volunteers, myself included, could potentially be deployed somewhere in a...