Getting Pepper Sprayed is no bueno.

I thought I had left most of the dangerous occupational hazards behind when I left the ambulance. And I certainly didn't think that I would encounter these hazards in graduate school. Yet, yesterday I was pepper sprayed by one of my clients. It wasn't a direct hit, nor was it fully intentional. It was a middle school aged kid making some very bad decisions. I have no doubt that there was not malicious intent. Another student brought a canister of pepper spray to school disguised as a pen, and he thought it would be funny to discharge it about 5 feet away from me in my direction. Almost immediately everyone in the room, including myself started coughing. We evacuated the room, but my asthma was already severely flared up. 1 ambulance ride, CPAP, Continuous A&A, solumedrol, and sub Q epi later... I finally got to come home and rest. What a day.