Hi my name is Bill and i have had a "MedicAlert" around my neck since 1988 and last year the watch the membershp card was a great help last month when I went into the hospita
it had all my medictions and the dosage of each which was a great time saver for the staff
in the er and on the floor. I have had Epilepsy since 1988. My daughter wears a MedicAlert
bracelet around her wrist because of her allergics.
GOD BLESS you & keep you
----- Original Message -----
From: "neil deir" <ndeir@hcemr.
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:06:31 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [epilepsy] Re: Medical Alert ID bracelet
Please take a minute and look at www.hcemr.com.
From: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Of TIMOTHY BALDWIN
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 3:24 PM
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Re: Medical Alert ID bracelet
Melissa,
I've had a MedicAlert around my neck from '91-now, r. wrist since '96 and a
MedicAlert watch on my l. wrist for around 2 yrs., nothing keeps a paramedic
from taking me to a hospital. Even though, they should first ask, Do you
have diabetes? If you aswer Yes, it's an emergency requiring a hospital. If
No; then ask, Have you been diagnosed with epilepsy? If Yes it's not an
emergency, unless another seizure begins just after the first one. If the
answer is No, it may be an emergency and you need to be seen by a hospital
doctor. If you are taken to a hospital you recieve a bill from the Fire
Department (which he works for) for, Ambulance Service. There's isn't any
cost for their quick response in coming unless you're taken to a hospital.
Also, you'll get a bill from the Hospital and another a separate one for
Physicians Service. Even though it wasn't needed or necessary, but you were
there on that day! Police officers are different
story for me, they seem to be looking for criminals and if you didn't had
any medication in your pocket and they can't arrest you for Possession of
Drugs, they seem to be OK, and look you over for and decide that the seizure
wasn't do to alcohol or drug use and if you're responsive to their
questioning they let you leave. I've been charged with Possession of Drugs a
couple of times and enen though ADA's title II tells them that must provide
water to all people with cardiac problems, epilepsy etc. in order for them
to take their medicine with, I've never been provided my needed medicines
because they tell me. "That's now police evidence & you can't handle it".
I...
Tim Baldwin < tbb1@prodigy.
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From: "mylmy@bnin.net <mailto:mylmy%
<mailto:mylmy%
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 1:46:59 PM
Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Re: Medical Alert ID bracelet
Melissa,
That bothers me that you have an Medical ID but it doesn't do any good.
You are right-- they should know how to calm a person who is having a
sz .
I have a Medical Alert bracelet that is hollow. In it is this info:
My name, address and phone, DOSAGE, name and home/work numbers of
my 2 daughters who live in town & my Dr.'s name and phone. I made it on
the computer in small print. I make 12 at a time so I always have one
to put in -- in case it gets wet. On the top of the bracelet it says
Millie and underneath close to my skin it says epileptic. When they first
made it they had EPILEPTIC on the top. I told them I didn't want to
be reminded of EP every time I looked at my arm. So they changed it.
I got mine at the jewelry store.
There was 1 time I didn't know my name, where I lived, or if I had
children. At that time I wasn't wearing my ID necklace. The police
thought I was drunk and said so when he called my daughter. She said,
"She is not drunk she has EP". After that a policeman told me that
they would rather look on your arm than around your neck for ID.
No one has ever had to use it. I use it myself when I can't remember
my one daughter's phone number.
Millie
> I live with my fiance and this is very difficult on him. We both try to
> make sure my time alone is limited to my best days but these things cant
> always be predicted and there are times when I cant be difficult and
> unpredictable, would it be nice if these things worked on a schedule? LOL
> I do understand they had to take the IV port out it was just the way they
> handled the whole situation that upset me. Anyone should know that a
> person who is that confused for any reason, not just from a seizure should
> be reasured not threatened and be made more afraid and upset. It makes a
> person feel like there is nowhere you can turn to for help when you really
> need it. I have actually been arrested twice after/during seizures because
> I become so confused and combative. Once for public intoxication even
> though I tested clean for everything other than seizure medications and
> ofcourse the charges were dropped although I spent the night in jail and
> they refused to give me my medications there. The second time was for
> disorderly conduct in my own home. That time I spent two days in jail,
> again without medications and agian charges were dropped. I wear proper
> Identification showing I have this medical problem and carry a card
> stating the symptoms and what happens when I have a seizure but it has
> done me no good. Sometimes it feels hopeless. But on the up-side...Today I
> feel much better :-) Thanks to all who replied. I needed the support and
> good thoughts and understanding.
> Melissa
>
> --- In epilepsy@yahoogroup s.com, mylmy@... wrote:
>>
>> Melissa,
>>
>> Do you live alone? Or are you away from home or in town?
>>
>> So if you don't go to the one hospital in town-- what would you do?
>> Did they check your blood to see if you had enough meds in you?
>>
>> >
>>
>
>
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