BA TRAINING

[Alan J]

Mate, CFS pretty much let anyone do anything,

No they don't.

There was a small sniff of asthma on my medical form & I was
barred from reaccrediting.

[rescue5271]

Alan, if you have not had a major problem then you should be able to seek further advice on that as a number of members  staff and volunteer from around the state have done so and been able to do the course...

[6739264]

Mate, CFS pretty much let anyone do anything,

No they don't.

There was a small sniff of asthma on my medical form & I was
barred from reaccrediting.

Ah but you can be the most incompetent person in the world, someone who really should be in supervised care and you can still pass courses :roll:

[jaff]

Mate, CFS pretty much let anyone do anything,

No they don't.

There was a small sniff of asthma on my medical form & I was
barred from reaccrediting.

Ah but you can be the most incompetent person in the world, someone who really should be in supervised care and you can still pass courses :roll:

How is the care going for you now numbers? Hope you received that day rug we sent you! :-D

[6739264]

Mate, CFS pretty much let anyone do anything,

No they don't.

There was a small sniff of asthma on my medical form & I was
barred from reaccrediting.

Ah but you can be the most incompetent person in the world, someone who really should be in supervised care and you can still pass courses :roll:

How is the care going for you now numbers? Hope you received that day rug we sent you! :-D

I don't leave the station now without my blankey. Thanks Jaffy!

[Alan J]

Alan, if you have not had a major problem then you should be able to seek further advice on that as a number of members  staff and volunteer from around the state have done so and been able to do the course...

I approached the medical officer directly (can't remember his name & no longer care -
he also acts/acted as MO to the Aust swimming team, several of whom have both asthma
and gold medals.)

Wouldn't budge, despite me never, ever having had an "attack". The fact that I have
been prescribed a preventer & reliever (which I regularly throw away unused)
officially precludes any CABA use. Have to go 5 years without a prescription to be
reinstated. That isn't 5 years without using a preventer/reliever by the way.
That's 5 years without a prescription being issued.

So we briefly discussed s*x & travel, & I re-grew a beard & became an officer instead.
Officering beats the stuffing out of working, although that Ashes fella got a snap of
me with a knapsack at Brownhill... I was just showing him how they work.  Honest !!

Hint. If you have EVER had an asthma prescription & want CABA accredit/reaccredit,
take the medical form for CABA operator to a medical practice which you have never
been to before & lie outrageously. Blinky, I think you'll find that's the way it was
done.

cheers

[6739264]

...Assma...

You sure you got the right info? According to the current CABA medical:


  Bronchial asthma with any significance clinical exacerbations in the last two years requiring
hospitalisation, oral steroids or high dose inhaled cortico steroid (≥ 1600mg Budesonide daily
equivalent dose or 800mg if in combination with LABA)

  Exercise or stress induced asthma in the last 3 years

These are the only references to asthma under the "Absolute Restriction" part of the document.

What inhalers were you on? I have been on/use Pulmicort/Bricanyl/Symbicort, they proved no issue with the medical, or I forgot to mention them, I forget which. ;)

[Alan J]

You sure you got the right info? According to the current CABA medical:


  Bronchial asthma with any significance clinical exacerbations in the last two years requiring
hospitalisation, oral steroids or high dose inhaled cortico steroid (≥ 1600mg Budesonide daily
equivalent dose or 800mg if in combination with LABA)

  Exercise or stress induced asthma in the last 3 years

These are the only references to asthma under the "Absolute Restriction" part of the document.

What inhalers were you on? I have been on/use Pulmicort/Bricanyl/Symbicort, they proved no issue with the medical, or I forgot to mention them, I forget which. ;)

Ahhhhh... It's been changed again then.  Pulmicort & Symbicort are both cortico-steroids.  My medical form said "... prescribed any steroids or preventer or
reliever in last 5 years..."  Got a good doc, but the wording was so tight there
was no way of wiggling around it at the time (low dose pulmicort & never needed a
reliever).  Maybe they woke up that they were about to destroy the CFS' ability to
respond with MFS super-hero recruiting rules.

Might have to enquire... not sure now that I'd even want to reaccredit & have to
dry out those wretched masks again.

cheers