Test suggests wrong-way trucker wasn't sick

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  1. Cybergal

    Cybergal Road Train Member

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    Test suggests wrong-way trucker wasn't sick
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  3. rch10007

    rch10007 Medium Load Member

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    I don't think we'll ever really know what he was going through but this is crazy:

    I still maintain, HOS had nothing to do with it. :biggrin_25522:
     
  4. Cybergal

    Cybergal Road Train Member

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    I so agree, we may never know.
     
  5. bigjuniortrucker

    bigjuniortrucker Bobtail Member

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    Well you know that those anti trucker groups already "know" that it was because he was driving over his hours. Or because he is "allowed" to drive too many hours.

    But this is a shame. We probably won't know.
     
  6. Pardel

    Pardel Light Load Member

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    This is so very sad. My father died of diabetes in 1992. I grew up watching him fight this horrible diease. He had to give himself shots twice a day, he would rotate arms, legs, and even his stomach. As it progressed he lost his sight, had cornea transplants, went on dialysis, had a kidney transplant, went into diabetic comas numerous times, developed gangreen. had his leg amputated, developed gangreen again, went in to have his hand amputated and passed away during the procedure. By the end he was begging the lord to take him home. I can still remember him crying from the horror and pain of this horrible diease asking God why, to please just let him die. The only thing that was not affected by this diease was his mind. The mind stayed strong, even in the horrific pain. I would say there are probably people (me for one) that could not have stayed as strong as he in the face of such a diease. Maybe the young man just could not handle what the lord handed him and decided not to wait to be taken home.
     
  7. 25(2)+2

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    There is no way of knowing what happened, there are different scenarios with diabetes that come into play, which is why these conditions can be so difficult to live with and control.

    Blood sugar uncontrolled can swing too high and too low on any given day and cause lasting effects and it is not predictable what those will be.

    That is why the DOT is so insistent on regular medical consultations for those who have been diagnosed with diabetes, and why insulin use is so regulated; in some other countries, any history of pre-diabetes can pretty much end a driver's career.

    This young man's life ended tragically, but he didn't take others with him, it could have been much worse.
     
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