s10vsb said:I have 'War wounds' too!! I've taken photos of my bruises. My GP and A and E saw them and made notes....I also pulled muscles in my voice box through screaming and as a waitress you have to call tables away and shout across the kitchen. My GP told me that after a week without my voice, if I didn't have my voice back within the next wk, I'd have to have a sick note!!!! A proper black and blue bruise on the base of my spine due to being hand cuffed behind my back...why? I wasn't aggressive or abusive. The Sergeant confirmed that was unnecessary. I had big bruises on my thigh and knee and a cut on my knee due to 'Falling' out of the back of the police van. If you had high heels on, a fitted dress and your hands strapped behind your back would you have been able to get out of the van? Bear in mind, there were 3 police officers that took me to the station who obviously didn't help!!! No, I'm not over weight, my BMI is 24.Elc1112 said:I had similar problems when I started on Levemir - my sugars would rise/fall a lot during the day and I just couldn't get the balance right. I started splitting the dose, based on advice from my GP, and it has been much better since.
It must be a pain if you don't recognise high blood sugars. Not sure if there is anything that you can do to improve this but I do know that hypo awareness is more likely to return as you stop having so many hypos - wondering whether it's the same for high readings? Anybody know?
Anyway, I lived in Durham for a few years when I was in my early 20s. I seem to remember them having a pretty low tolerance towards anybody who was a little worse for wear. With regards to your experience, it might be worth highlighting the fact that you were worried about what would have happened if your sugars dropped while you were in the cell. Not sure if it will make much of a difference but at least you'll feel like you have done something to stop others being in the same situation. As for taking it to the press, I'm not sure they'd be too interested if I am completely honest. Don't take this the wrong way, but it would be more exciting to a newspaper if you did hypo and if treatment was withheld and, as a result, you ended up in hospital. It's the drama/scandal that sells papers!
I'm sure that most people on this forum have done or said something stupid when they've been drunk in the past. I know I have! You were unlucky in that you got arrested and it's a tough lesson to learn but at least you've come away from it without any war wounds. Learn from it and move on. That's all you can do
Em
s10vsb said:
AMBrennan said:
JConnor said:
Police did not follow procedure, thus a complaint is warranted.
Which changes nothing about the fact that police didn't follow procedure.
They will find that BS was not checked "first thing" in violation of procedure.
A police officer's job requires taking personal risks to ensure the safety of other people - both by confronting armed criminals and by making sure "nutters" don't harm themselves and are fit to be detained. If you don't want to do that then police officer is not the right job for you.
That is immaterial - question is whether a) police followed procedure AND b) if police procedures are adequate to guarantee the safety. OP has a case if either of them is false.
That is immaterial - do you want to wait with educating the officers in question about correct procedure until someone actually dies in their custody as a result of them not following procedure?
Ah yes, because there she could have been treated worse it follows that police not following procedure is totally fine.
I routinely plan on getting arrested and carry several days worth of medication just in case.
AMBrennan said:
Close - mathematician.
I don't dispute that, and I never said that her behavior was helpful or acceptable or that she should not have been arrested, and she will get an appropriate punishment as decided by the courts.
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