By
Nick Tabor, New Era Senior Staff Writer
In
the last two weeks, since classes started at Crofton Elementary School,
Donna Crick has often asked the school nurse in the mornings whether she would
be at the school all day.
“She
just tells me she’s there until she hears different,” Crick recalled on Friday.
Crick’s
7-year-old daughter Kaylie was diagnosed with diabetes earlier this year. When
she thinks of Kaylie’s blood sugar dropping so low she falls over or goes into
a coma, Crick seizes up with fear. She knows it would take an ambulance a long
time to reach Crofton from Hopkinsville.
Lately
she’s had trouble sleeping.
When
facing a budget shortfall in June, the Christian County
Board of Health asked the school system to contribute more funding for nurses.
It presented two options for staffing levels based on how much the schools
would give.
