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Heavy perfume in medical facilities, or anywhere, really

Lung Health | Last Active: Aug 11 12:17pm | Replies (78)

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@windwalker

@peggyj4411 Hi Peggy! I hear ya! I went to a lung transplantee meeting two months at the Mayo clinic in Jacksonville that was held in a smallish meeting room. That particular day, they combined heart transplant people in that meeting as well. (not normally) Anyway, a women came with her husband who had had a heart transplant, reeked badly of extremely strong perfume. I was mortified that no one asked her to leave. I, and the woman next to me started to cough and get a bad headache. I finally approached the woman and kindly asked her to leave the room explaining to her that the people in there with lung issues cannot tolerate it. I was not happy to be the one to approach this woman; the moderator there should have been on top of it. I mean, nobody in there could have missed the strong perfume. I left there with a borderline migraine because of it, and it spoiled our plans that we had for the rest of the day. I feel like a poster saying NO PERFUMES ALLOWED IN THIS ROOM needs to be posted on the conference room door, if not everywhere in the hospital.

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@windwalker, That had to have been a disappointing meeting! I hope that this was not a common occurrence at a transplant meeting. As a transplant recipient, I would like to believe that this was somehow an oversight for that particular meeting.
I want to share your experience with @lisalucier so that she can pass it on and help to get a solution.
Rosemary