Another one bites the dust...

[Pale Rider]

The lawyer should not, ethically, be making remarks unless she believes them to be true.

People may sneer at the concept of lawyers and ethics, but they operate in public.

If she is 'making shoot up', she will very quickly be caught out.

There is some poetic licence, and the information may not be rigorously checked.

In other words, the defendant tells her in conference he has diabetes and it sometimes make him feel a bit odd.

She presents that in court - with a bit of topspin.

She also mentioned 'a moment of madness' which may have been her way of selling the lesser charge of careless driving to the jury.

However, the defendant still banjoed the cyclist, so the judge could have sent him away just for that.

 

[raleighnut]

The lawyer should not, ethically, be making remarks unless she believes them to be true.

People may sneer at the concept of lawyers and ethics, but they operate in public.

If she is 'making shoot up', she will very quickly be caught out.

There is some poetic licence, and the information may not be rigorously checked.

In other words, the defendant tells her in conference he has diabetes and it sometimes make him feel a bit odd.

She presents that in court - with a bit of topspin.

She also mentioned 'a moment of madness' which may have been her way of selling the lesser charge of careless driving to the jury.

However, the defendant still banjoed the cyclist, so the judge could have sent him away just for that.

It could have been an attempt by the solicitor to claim he was disabled and needed the car to get about but 1 of the main 'cures' for type II is exercise.

 

[Drago]

Some lawyers really do extract the urine. Crown court usually don't let them get away with as much as they do in mags, but some do forget their place in the food chain.

I used to love when they'd say, "I put it to your officer Drago that you're lying." No evidence of it, just desperately clutching at straws. My response was to turn to the Judge so he could see my campaign, military service and police service medals shine patriotically on my tunic, put on my best hurt and upset face, and say "Your Honour, I've just been accused of perjury. That's a very serious offence, so with your permission I'd like to step down to take legal advice."

The Judge responded by saying, "That won't be necessary officer Drago", and then giving a serious and highly embarassing tongue lashing into the solicitor. I used to relish watching them squirm and the look of daggers they'd sneak me when they thought the Judge wasn't looking. That might work with an 18 year old probationer who still lives with Mum, but not a near 30 year man in his late 40's.

 

[swansonj]

As a type 2 diabetic there is no such thing as a sugar low, type 2 is high blood sugar all the time.

I am neither medical nor do I have any experience of diabetes, so I ask this as a genuinely open question.... is it possible for the treatment for type 2 diabetes to produce low blood sugar?

 

[vickster]

I am neither medical nor do I have any experience of diabetes, so I ask this as a genuinely open question.... is it possible for the treatment for type 2 diabetes to produce low blood sugar?

My father who is Type 2 and on insulin (has been for years) certainly gets hypos if he doesn't eat (often) enough

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/complications/hypos

 

[Drago]

Type 2s become hyperglycaemic, not hypo. Mrs D suffers as a side effect of the MS, and it's one of the 2 injections I administer for her every night.

 

[tom73]

In short no other than lowering blood sugar to normal levels.

 

[HMS_Dave]

Im hoping for drivers giving me the wide berth and being the size i am should limit road rage incidents. With the Trike and myself i'd weigh in excess of 400 pounds. I mean, if im hit by a car i shall immediately and instinctively curl up in to ball and hope to do as much damage to the car as humanly possible whilst exiting the world in a ferocious, screaming lump of glory. In terms of road rage, im hoping they just think, whats the point!? and instead rant on the Daily Mail instead. I can literally live with that...

 

[Rocky]

I am neither medical nor do I have any experience of diabetes, so I ask this as a genuinely open question.... is it possible for the treatment for type 2 diabetes to produce low blood sugar?

The answer is yes.

Type 2 diabetics can get hypoglycaemia - when they take too much glucose lowering medication (for example insulin). See this paper which explains that it may be a bigger problem than originally thought.

https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/28/12/2948

 

[vickster]

In short no other than lowering blood sugar to normal levels.

No, his drops to lower than what would be normal. Like 3. Has to test levels and adjust insulin accordingly. similar to T1 requirement

 

[vickster]

Type 2s become hyperglycaemic, not hypo. Mrs D suffers as a side effect of the MS, and it's one of the 2 injections I administer for her every night.

Lantus? Or GLP-1?

 

[Drago]

Dunno, I stick it in her, not read it. I'll look tonight.

 

[JohnHughes307]

Type 2s become hyperglycaemic, not hypo. Mrs D suffers as a side effect of the MS, and it's one of the 2 injections I administer for her every night.

I'm type 2 and have had hypo moments when my prescribed gliclacide was at too high a dose (I'd lost 16kg and still on the dosage that I'd been prescribed when I was at 89kg) - really weird effects, it was as if I was totally bladdered, couldn't stand properly, couldn't talk properly... Had to grab some carbs quick and adjust my dosage.
Chappie still deserves his sentence though, you shouldn't be behind the wheel if you feel like that and there is no excuse for violence like that.

 

[Slick]

The judge told Michael Hanley: ‘‘Cyclists are entitled to share the road with drivers. Whatever got you into that state is beyond me – a complete rush of blood to the head.”

After a couple of recent events for me, I particularly liked this part of the judges comments.

 

[fossyant]

Low blood sugar would not make him aggressive - he'd be tired, very tired. High blood sugar is a different matter (got an 18 year old with T1) = rage - so the lawyer was clutching at straws.