Tim
How about labeling your bottles of meds you carry with you?
Millie
----- Original Message -----
From: TIMOTHY BALDWIN
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Epilepsy, Alzheimer's priorities to Dewitt police
Steve,
This is really good,I've had problems a few of the times when a police officer was the first to respond after having a seizure. After having being unconscious during a seizure I was asked a few questions that required verbal-memory to answer, like:
Can you name the current and past presidents? I can usually think of just a president, Kennedy.
Then they usually think its alcohol or drug abuse. No smell of alcohol, then they pat me down for a drug and find my medicine that not in a labeled bottle. Then they arrest me for possession of drugs, when behind bars in police custody and when I ask for water to take medicine.
I've been told that the drugs you had are in police evidence and you can't touch that. No doctor is on premises to evaluate it.
This prevent breaking federal law ADA title II due to me not having medicine which requires water to it with.
If a paramedic asks any questions, they only require a yes or no answer. Thats if questions are asked, and they should every time a seizure takes place but allot of time they don't, just to take you to hospital; like:
Do you have diabetes? No, meaning to them it probably not an emergency.
If it was Yes, very low blood sugar probably caused the seizure which could be deadly.
Have you been diagnosed with epilepsy? Yes, meaning to them its not to the first time and probably isn't an emergency.
But, if the seizure lasts more then 5mins. of if another starts right afterward it requires a hospital.
If No,a doctor needs to evaluate anyone having a first seizure.
If Yes,but the seizure lasts more than 5mins or another starts just afterward this one.
Baldwinsville Police might need to know whatever is possible.
Timothy Baldwin
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From: Steve <stephenpales@
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Sent: Fri, December 25, 2009 8:08:11 PM
Subject: [epilepsy] Epilepsy, Alzheimer's priorities to Dewitt police
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