{"id":1808,"date":"2007-03-12T07:17:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T07:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/tough-call\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T07:17:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T07:17:28","slug":"tough-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/tough-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having been trained as a police officer — this is a really tough call.<\/p>\n

First, let’s be honest, the police officers and other responders do have the right to make it through their shift uninjured.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what their options are.  Are the responders comfortable with waiting until the woman passes out and then treat her?  A review and perhaps policy change is in order.<\/p>\n

The woman, who went into diabetic shock and lost control in her home Saturday night, claims police used excessive force when an officer used a stun gun to make her stop struggling. She said she is afraid to call 911 again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: KATU – Portland, Oregon<\/a> <\/p>\n

Of course, the best solution is to find a way to keep the hypoglymicia from happening.  Easy for to say when I’m a Type 2 and I have been able to prevent this sort of thing from happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having been trained as a police officer — this is a really tough call. First, let’s be honest, the police officers and other responders do have the right to make it through their shift uninjured. I’m not sure what their options are.  Are the responders comfortable with waiting until the woman passes out and then treat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}