If that man won't accept medical care, I'm afraid his wife will soon be a widow. I'm very glad I paid attention to my angina symptoms, slight as they were, and went to the emergency room. My wife and I had planned a two-week August trip to the Pukaskwa shore of Lake Superior, where radio communications is spotty and you can be up to 55 miles from the nearest road access. With 90% blockage in one of my coronary arteries, I might have finished the trip okay, but there was also a strong possibility of a heart attack far from any aid. Now that I have had my quadruple bypass operation, my cardiologist says he would have no qualms about such a trip -- even this year. This issue does bring up a couple of questions, though: (1) What would the club's legal liability be if that man had had a heart attack during the event? (2) Should a club restrict participation by people with obvious health problems? Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jun 22 2005 - 10:04:48 PDT
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