President Obama signs new law to put EpiPens in more Schools (pic)

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POTUS signs new law to put EpiPens in more schools keeping children w/ asthma & allergies safe in the classroom
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/11/13/president-obama-signs-new-epipen-law-protect-children-asthma-and-severe-allergies-an


link to video of the signing
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57612201/food-allergy-epinephrine-bill-reaches-obamas-desk/

[Scurrilous]

1. K & R

[ananda]

2. +

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[TransitJohn]

3. .....

[Heather MC]

11. ha ha ha

[Aristus]

4. Nanny-state over-reach! Allowing children to die from allergic reactions is a hallmark of FREEDOM!

[Skittles]

5. he is such a freaking leftie

that's a big curve he's got going there

[Jamastiene]

9. I noticed that too, in that picture.

I'm a lefty too. I tend to hold my wrist straight when I write. But, a lot of lefties sort of write with their hand curved around over the top of what they are writing like that.

[Skittles]

15. I always kind of wondered about that

I never see rightie curve

[Jamastiene]

16. I have never seen a rightie curve either.

I'm not sure why some lefties do it and others do not, but I have seen a lot of lefties do that.

[Skittles]

17. I do have a theory

they've been in situations where the setup was for righties (perhaps they only had access to right-handed desks), and they had to contort their left arm to accommodate, and got used to it

[Jamastiene]

23. That makes the most sense.

When I first started learning to write, I wrote perfect mirror writing, backwards. The teacher had to sit down with me and re-teach me how to write. She had said to go to the opposite side of the page than the hand you write with when she first taught us. I did that and then just converted everything she was writing to match backwards. After she retaught me, I could still, and can still, write backwards perfectly with no problems.

It could also be how someone was taught to write in the first place.

[Spirochete]

21. I tried to stop doing that once

because i noticed my mother, who was also left-handed, wrote with straight wrist, and her handwriting was a lot better than mine. But it looked so much worse when I did it, the teacher had me go back to the curve. LOL

[Jamastiene]

22. Maybe it just comes down to what is most comfortable for each person.

The curve does look really cool though. I am fascinated by it.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Oh thank heaven

When my older daughter was in kindergarten, we discovered that she had severe allergies to nuts. Back in the late 1980s, many school systems had no policies for dealing with this or with any potential emergencies that might arise.

At one point the school would only allow us to keep an epi-pen in the nurse's office IF my daughter was taught to use it on herself.

Now, imagine a 6-year-old having an anaphylactic reaction to nuts that someone brought into the classroom. How is this child going to run all the way to the nurse's room and get someone to find the epi-pen and hand it to her so she can use it all by herself. And do all this within the 5-minute margin before her throat closes from swelling and she starts losing consciousness?

Not only that, but she would first have to diagnose herself, and possibly need to deal with a teacher who didn't believe there was anything wrong, in order to get permission to go to the nurse.

[LittleGirl]

7. that's a horror story

I'm glad they've updated that process, right?

[Jamastiene]

8. Good.

I'm surprised that isn't already a law.

[kmlisle]

10. Am a youth Group adviser and sued to teach before I retired

The number of kids with severe allergies is almost overwhelming. Our state wide Youth Group conference (about 65 kids) a couple of weekends ago had 4 epi pens and we should have had 2 more. One kid got bitten by an ant and we dosed him with benedryl and he was ok but almost went into shock. I do not remember there being this many allergic kids in years past or maybe we are just more aware.

[ReRe]

12. K&R

EpiPens in more schools is a good thing.

[sheshe2]

13. K&R! nt

[uponit7771]

14. +1

[treestar]

18. Wow, amazed the Republicans allowed for this

If he's signing it now, the Tea Party must have let Boner pass it. Surprised they are indulging these sick children, whose parents should not have had them if they can't afford them and should be making enough money to pay for it all!

[liberal_at_heart]

19. that's great. Maybe he can sign a bill putting school nurses back in school.

[Aerows]

20. Socialism!

Communism! If God didn't intend for children to not die of asthma and allergies, there would be prayer in schools so they can pray the death away!