Recent content by mackeydad

explanation of my posts on "cot straps"... i wish to apologize to all whom i may have offended with my questions and responses. i gather from the feedback that some would transport me minus restraints as a better alternative than simply refusing and leaving me with no care, while others would...

i never meant to infer your responses were wrong or not legitimate. in fact, i am comforted by the responses from the last two posters. one point i wish to clarify is the interpretation of my refusal of restraint as "not being sick enough". the comment that " if you are stable and coherent...

cot straps i attempted to ask a serious question concerning ways in which a severely claustrophobic accident victim might be transported to an ER if he could not be restrained whatsoever. i have asked before just how much weight does the threat of a lawsuit have upon making treatment...

cot straps i have a legal exemption from the state of kentucky exempting me from the provisions of our seat belt law, signed by my family physician. after discussing this at length with him he provided me a statement recommending i be sedated prior to any restraint being applied to me. he...

refusing transportation i want to make it clear that this is a serious post and my claustrophobia is a real problem i have wrestled with all my life. it is not something i want nor is it something i can control. it just IS. my reality is that i CANNOT be restrained, not that i simply do not...

cot straps since i am very severely claustrophobic, i wonder if you run into any patients that cannot/will not allow the cot straps to be employed? i cannot tolerate restraint of any kind, and the equivalent of world war three would be fought at the scene to avoid this. due to my claustrophobia...