Silvermonkey10 stated:
Furthermore, no, I don't expect support from everybody. I was being too hopeful. Its been quite an eye-opener to learn that so many feel we ought to be discrimated against.
You call it discrimination. I call it common sense. I have a firend who's son was diagnosed with Epilepsy at age 24 yrs. He had his licence taken from him 4 years ago. He can't get it back until he has been free from any fits for twelve months. He got to 11 months and 10 days once, then had a fit. He still has no licence. He didn't get uptight about it. He just found something else he could do which doesn't involve driving. He once said, he couldn't live with himself if he had an accident down to his Epilepsy. So his view is he is safer off the road.
Its annoying that you don't go all the way and protest against diabetics being within a five mile radius of the road in anything mechanically-propelled or otherwise.
Very emotive again. Not at all what anybody, least of all me has said ?
Why do people have issues with large vehicles and diabetes?
Well, that's what some of us have been trying to explain to you. But, as you say you don't agree. So you keep coming back with the same things. I know that you find it an emotive subject. So do I. Very. I have dealt with countless accidents involving cars and most times they are usually just damage only or minor injuries. Then there are the more serious and fatal ones, usually involving somebody doing something that they shouldn't have been doing. Speeding, dangerous, careless driving, drunk, drugs, illnesses. They all would have called themselves good, careful drivers but as they say, accidents do happen. Not really, there is usually a cause. Now with a car that isn't so bad. Change the vehicle to a fully laden LGV travelling along a Motorway and when something goes wrong there, what do we see. Multi vehicle pile ups, cars flattened by LGV's unable to stop in time. Cars compressed to a few feet in an instant. So the reason why I don't want an Insulin user behind the wheel of an LGV is prevention. Not to punish anybody, not to take their livelihood away, not to get them depressed. It is PUBLIC SAFETY. Now don't put a spin on my words. Read what I say, not imply something that I have never said. I have investigated these accidents many times. A poor car driver who is hit by an LGV has in those circumstances is running a serious risk of death.
Surely if you want to go down that road you may as well argue we are a danger in any vehicle. Presumably all those who chose the view to ban the marriage of insulin users and heavy goods drivers all rushed to the DVLA to surrender your car/motorbike licences completely when learning you were on hypo-inducing meds????
Yet again, emotive and not what anybody has said. Just what you read into things.
'Cos I too Cugila have seen the fatal results of CAR drivers who have failed to respect their diabetes.
Yes, me too over many years. I have seen things which were so horrific that I wouldn't even begin to try and describe them here. I have had the sad task of telling relatives that their son/daughter won't be coming home again. Couldn't even let them see the body, too horrific. The unfortunate fact you neglected to mention is that most LGV drivers are car drivers too. So if we are looking at poorly controlled car drivers, well, using your logic, it follows that a percentage of them are LGV drivers as well. Do they suddenly stop being poorly controled drivers, no. They just become poorly controlled LGV drivers. With the best will in the world I don't want to see that happen. As I said before, PUBLIC SAFETY is my only concern. When I joined the Police I took an oath to protect life and property. I have never forgotten those words. They stick with me to this day.
I hope the law is changed and I'm positive that it will be. I for one will be straight back behind the wheel of a bus.....complications allowing.
So, you are still a Bus Driver at heart then.......?
I have also witnessed the carnage on the roads caused by drivers who were doing everything perfectly till something goes wrong and their reactions weren't up to speed. Do you actually know what happens to someone having a Hypoglycaemic or Hyperglycaemic episode. I do. 