New York: The Noonday Press, 1997 (#). But on the other hand I believe that these stubborn, ignorant people shouldn't be pampered when they are already helping themselves to so much (#)from the tax payers through welfare. All I am saying is that he should not have worried about teaching the Hmong community a lesson on reality so much and think more about the health of the individual named Lia Lee. It might have also provoked the Lees' to anger because they didn't like to give Lia the medicine because of how the medicine made her depressed and sullen.
Nou Kou said: "I was outside and Sue came inside and she called me and said, Come in here, you come in here. Ernst did not at least try to use a nurse to administer the medication. And when the Hmong community is already draining our resources through welfare doesn't make much sense to spend more money on them. At that time I was ready to hit Sue, and I got a baseball bat right there. Ernst thought about this course of action, I can only suspect that it would have been too expensive to have a nurse visit three times a day. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. The reason is because she did not want to be separated from her parents, and the
emotional damage from the separation. The second reason the
Nou Kou and Foua did not want to give their daughter the medicine was that they believed like other Hmongs that people with epilepsy are caught by a good or bad spirit which makes them fall to the ground (the Hmong word for epilepsy translates into: the
spirit catches you and you fall down) and while their under siege they get messages from the gods. Many people in their culture with epilepsy become cultural healers or shamans.
