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MEDICAL ALERT I.D.'s
Wed, 11/17/2004 - 14:25HI I am wondering if anybody else has had the same problem as I am having. My Dr. has told me that I need to get some sort of Medical I.D. to wear. because as most of you know that when you have a seizure after you are unable to remember things that are important like where you are and how you got there.My problem is I have looked and look but everything I find is so exspensive. I want to register with the medical alert system which seems like the best way to go because my Dr. would be contacted right away but I can't afford a good bracelet. I don't want something cheep that I will have to replace everytime I turn around, but spending $500.00 is not something I can do.
is there anybody who can recomend a good place to buy a good medical I.D. bracelet or even just the charms?
thank you for any help.
cyndi
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Re: MEDICAL ALERT I.D.'s
Submitted by tbaldwin on Tue, 2013-03-26 - 16:37
T. Cameron,
Once in '05 I asked DC Metropolitan police for my medicine and water from behind bars. I was told, "The drugs are in police possession". Then, I said from behind bars that those are medicine! He said, "There's no doctor here and you'll need to go to a hospital to find one!" I tought; If I'm not taken there, how can I walk out of jail to a hospital? Thirteen hours after that dose later was due and another was passed. Before they took me, and a nuerologist gave me what I wanted, and told the police to release him now. Police took me back to their precinct and released me and told me to come back tomorrow for your possessions. I spent the rest of that night at work in that city where I kept a week of medicine. I went to that station at 9am the next morning, and I had a seizure. That seizure was probably due to having a reduced theraputic level of my meds because of their not giving it as ADA says. I was ambulanced back to same hospital. Doctors knew they'd just seen me, 11 hours ago. That charge was dropped. Back in '92 I'd sued both, DC metropolitan police for having assisted Amtrak police in another case. In The Washington Post, its story about Amtrak was written in '92 and was titled, "Md. Man's Nightmare Began After Seizure". Settlement came from both.
Timothy Baldwin
T. Cameron,
Once in '05 I asked DC Metropolitan police for my medicine and water from behind bars. I was told, "The drugs are in police possession". Then, I said from behind bars that those are medicine! He said, "There's no doctor here and you'll need to go to a hospital to find one!" I tought; If I'm not taken there, how can I walk out of jail to a hospital? Thirteen hours after that dose later was due and another was passed. Before they took me, and a nuerologist gave me what I wanted, and told the police to release him now. Police took me back to their precinct and released me and told me to come back tomorrow for your possessions. I spent the rest of that night at work in that city where I kept a week of medicine. I went to that station at 9am the next morning, and I had a seizure. That seizure was probably due to having a reduced theraputic level of my meds because of their not giving it as ADA says. I was ambulanced back to same hospital. Doctors knew they'd just seen me, 11 hours ago. That charge was dropped. Back in '92 I'd sued both, DC metropolitan police for having assisted Amtrak police in another case. In The Washington Post, its story about Amtrak was written in '92 and was titled, "Md. Man's Nightmare Began After Seizure". Settlement came from both.
Timothy Baldwin
Re: MEDICAL ALERT I.D.'s
Submitted by tbaldwin on Tue, 2013-03-26 - 16:36
T. Cameron,
Once in '05 I asked DC Metropolitan police for my medicine and water from behind bars. I was told, "The drugs are in police possession". Then, I said from behind bars that those are medicine! He said, "There's no doctor here and you'll need to go to a hospital to find one!" I tought; If I'm not taken there, how can I walk out of jail to a hospital? Thirteen hours after that dose later was due and another was passed. Before they took me, and a nuerologist gave me what I wanted, and told the police to release him now. Police took me back to their precinct and released me and told me to come back tomorrow for your possessions. I spent the rest of that night at work in that city where I kept a week of medicine. I went to that station at 9am the next morning, and I had a seizure. That seizure was probably due to having a reduced theraputic level of my meds because of their not giving it as ADA says. I was ambulanced back to same hospital. Doctors knew they'd just seen me, 11 hours ago. That charge was dropped. Back in '92 I'd sued both, DC metropolitan police for having assisted Amtrak police in another case. In The Washington Post, its story about Amtrak was written in '92 and was titled, "Md. Man's Nightmare Began After Seizure". Settlement came from both.
Timothy Baldwin
T. Cameron,
Once in '05 I asked DC Metropolitan police for my medicine and water from behind bars. I was told, "The drugs are in police possession". Then, I said from behind bars that those are medicine! He said, "There's no doctor here and you'll need to go to a hospital to find one!" I tought; If I'm not taken there, how can I walk out of jail to a hospital? Thirteen hours after that dose later was due and another was passed. Before they took me, and a nuerologist gave me what I wanted, and told the police to release him now. Police took me back to their precinct and released me and told me to come back tomorrow for your possessions. I spent the rest of that night at work in that city where I kept a week of medicine. I went to that station at 9am the next morning, and I had a seizure. That seizure was probably due to having a reduced theraputic level of my meds because of their not giving it as ADA says. I was ambulanced back to same hospital. Doctors knew they'd just seen me, 11 hours ago. That charge was dropped. Back in '92 I'd sued both, DC metropolitan police for having assisted Amtrak police in another case. In The Washington Post, its story about Amtrak was written in '92 and was titled, "Md. Man's Nightmare Began After Seizure". Settlement came from both.
Timothy Baldwin