Who here remembers gym and their coaches?
By palonghorn
@palonghorn (5479)
United States
March 30, 2008 10:02am CST
The reason I ask is this, I remember gym (elementary, jr high, high school) and it was gym, it was physical activity, and running was involved, and getting out of breath from running was involved. My s/o has a daughter in junior high, they were in gym and they were running, afterwards she went to the coach and said she was out of breath, hard to breath. Hmmmmm....let's see you were just running and out of breath, wow, means either you need to get more active, or take a break and your breathing will regulate (mind you she has no medical reasons). The coach told her 'maybe you need an inhaler'! So, she talked to her mom, (hypochondriac that her mom is) and she took her to the doctor and got an inhaler! What happened to coaches being coaches and telling you, you'll be fine, go play,run, etc? Have you experienced anything like this, how did you react?
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@tyc415 (5706)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I find this a tough one to call. Whether or not the mother is a hypochondriac or not the child needs to be checked out. I know all during my growing years I got winded more than others but I was never checked out. After having double pneumonia and finding out that I do have some problems and am on inhalers myself not maybe if I had been told by a teacher to go get checked out back then that I would be much better off today.
There are more and more children diagnosed with asthma now also.
I do hope for her sake that her mother took her to a pulmonary doctor.
Let me know how it goes with her.
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
31 Mar 08
There are legitimate cases like yours, however, even her father thinks this was a bit much. She has no health problems, with the exception that she thinks every little ache, pain, spot on her skin is some major medical condition....picking up from mom! She'll be fine after all she has her dad and me to counter her mom's 'medical' problems lol
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
31 Mar 08
My coaches were the same way. And I don't think there were that many of us that were that whiny in the first place. But the reason its changed nowadays is real simple. Its called CYA (cover your @ss) People don't want to be sued nowadays over something may be an oversight. So if a child comes up and complains of something, a teacher/coach is going to tell the child what they may need, thinking that the parent is smart enough to have this checked out.
Now having the hypochondriac mother was a curveball that the coach didn't see. I just hope she doesn't end up passing this on to her daughter. (I know, but there's hope yet lol.)
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
31 Mar 08
LOL yes there is hope, since she has her dad and me to counter the hypochondriac mom that is teaching her daughter to whine about every little ache, growing pain or headache.
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
23 Apr 08
Thank you for the best response. I really wasn't into thanking the ones who gave me these, but then again, I thought today that you really didn't have to give it to me. I have fourteen months of BRs to go, so let me get to it lol. Oy!
