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southie · 07-01-2007, 01:57 PM

I have an Epileptologist - a Level 4 Epi Center.
They have already been alerted, notified, etc.
They know about this Pursuit.

The problem is - I'm not able to get a hold of
them because their telephone equipment is
malfunctioning, it's cutting off halfway and I
don't think they're aware of it.

Secondly, I can't go anywhere as my car's in
the impound as evidence.

And yes, the Hospital knew what the whole
issue was, but it was a little confusion going
on, I later found out there had been misunderstanding
as a Deputy talked with my son while I was asleep
(FINALLY!) and apparently they thought "I was driving
and fleeing from the police and had seizures", and
later when the Deputies attempted to get the reports
it was then when the ER Doctors realized they got it
all "wrong", I wasn't fleeing from anyone, my son and
I were the victims, and we were the "end" of the
pursuit. We should have been in the Trauma Room and
not in the "Non-Urgent" room way in the back.

I did not deny any care at all, they refused to give me
my medications as I'm on a schedule, my son begged
them to provide it to me, the first one that was due.
And when the last main dosage of the day was due,
they were telling me they didn't have it except for the
generic. My Epi does not want me on generic, he wants
me on BRAND NAME ONLY and according to them they
did not have any and I would have to bring it from home.
And I never heard of a Hospital not having this.

I've been in 24 car accidents - none ever being my fault,
ever! So I have experience up in my sleeves, and some
of those Deputies KNOWS this.

And WHY the hospital kept me in my cold, wet, dirty, grass,
mud, clothes and never changing me into something dry is
beyond me. I had spent hours shivering being cold even
though they must had given me 5-6 blankets to keep warm.

YES - the impact triggered seizures, but before the impact,
I was seizure-free, but that was because the side of my
head hit the window and window frame of the car. I suffered
the greater impact as the fleeing felon hit me on my end.

And the interesting part is, his car was a 70s' Camero, and
my car was my son's 2002 Daewoo, which I took it away from
him after he totaled my brand new car which he took without
my permission over a year ago (DUI), so my car (I call it a
plastic toy) is really an expensive stereo equipment that runs
on 4 wheels and gas as my son put a lot of money into the
sound system (boom box, etc). The puzzling factor is, why
the air bags never went off, and the Cops have checked
and the system IS turned on and IS not disabled. However,
the whole front driver's front side almost to my door is totaled
and destroyed, insomuch the frame and chassis has been
snapped. My car had no chance against a lean mean piece
of metal (one reason why my son and I love old cars, because
of the metal).

YES - both my son and I wore seat belts, so that played a
major IMPORTANCE right there. Deputies saw it, Witnesses
saw it - so they all knew we wore our seat belts, but the
airbags should have been deployed.

It's been really frustrating for me, I still take my AED's. And
while according to my son and Deputies and Doctors and Nurses,
I did sustain seizures, but I have absolutely no memory of having
any. I can't even remember much of the accident except for the
first part of the impact, but anything else after that I don't
remember or know, I didn't even know which hospital I was in,
or why I we were there. I assumed my son told them to take us
there, but he said I said. See my point? He also said that I was
seizing and fighting the Deputies, Fire Dept, Paramedics and
they had to wait to treat me, but I have no memory of it, as
I was going in and out of it so quickly.

It's frustrating! But as the time went on, the seizures subsided.

NOW as for the hospital issue, they only performed a quickie
C-Scan. It is virtually unknown if they ever contacted or even
attempted to make any contacts with my Level 4 Epi.

However, when another Deputy arrived, and corrected the
ER Doctors about what had happened, I had already missed one
of my AED and was late for my major AED's and they wanted to
admit me.

We were tired, hungry, soaking wet, cold, in pain, etc - and
unhappy the way we were treated - we just wanted to go
HOME and I wanted my MEDS! I didn't want anymore seizures
or put myself at risk for any. I found it very hard to believe that
the Hospital didn't have any of my meds - another reason why
we chose to head home.

They knew all about the neck pain, back pain, head injury,
etc. They knew about the "gong" like sound in my head, but
didn't seem to care.

NOW that we know we were placed in an "Non-Urgent" Room,
way in the back, we feel more insulted. And my son feels hurt
by the way they treated his mom. He told me he kept telling
them, but they seemed to ignore him. (He's almost 23 years old
so this isn't a kid you're talking about, and besides, he's HUGE,
and he looks like a linebacker for a Pro Football Team).

In a lot of ways - I feel like I've been betrayed, having been
in 24 accidents, a lot of them, I didn't have to go to the hospital,
but those that I did, I was treated far better than this, only
accident #18 was the worst one of them all and that one was
the one we had a solid lawsuit case (the ONLY one that I ever
had a lawsuit that went nowhere).

Just so that people don't get the wrong idea, not all the accidents
I was the driver, 2 of them I was the cyclist (riding the bike),
and couple of them I was the passenger, and majority of them
were rear-end collisions where people weren't paying attention.

But this was my first time involving a Cop Pursuit.

I think I now been through them all, except being over a bridge,
and I don't want to experience that part.

Lord have mercy!