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Permalink Reply by christy on September 10, 2011 at 5:40pm

Thanks. I'm hoping if I am picked by that time I will have been on the Lantus long enough to get my dosage stabalized. It is going a lot better and the lows are not as frequent like they were being. I've had to split my dosage cause 24 u of the Lantus was way to much and I'd be super low in the AM, but not enough for the rest of the day. I've now got it down to where Im taking 20 of Lantus at night and up to 6 now in the AM and it is working a lot better. THANKFULLY. I guess I wouldnt be so stressed about it if it hadn't come up RIGHT as I was changing my medications around. Hard enough somedays, then when your changing meds all around trying to find what works...grrrr just makes it a bit more stressful.

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Permalink Reply by Donna H on September 11, 2011 at 7:14pm

You won't have a problem taking in your meter or some food. Courts differ -- some even allow cell phones and smart phones. Many now allow computers. But even the stricter courts allow insulin pumps and meters.

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Permalink Reply by jbowler on September 11, 2011 at 7:54pm

I didn't have any problems, but the prosecutor dropped me. (In Oregon the prosecutor is allowed to drop a certain number of jury members without justification: the prosecutor was right; based on a later conversation with a jury member who didn't get dumped no way would she have got a guilty verdict had I been on that jury.)

There are no rules about carrying electronics here; the only rules I recall are that you aren't meant to carry guns and that you are meant to switch your cellphone off. The judge gets really annoyed if your cellphone goes off and, presumably if you pull a gun, although I've haven't seen the latter yet.

You need the BG meter. I need the BG meter. All of us need the BG meter. The US justice system doesn't need some hypo or hyper glycaemic individual making decisions that affect many peoples' lives.

You don't need or require an exemption: you have an absolute right and an absolute duty to be there *with* your BG meter, your CGM, your pump, whatever is required. Do they bounce people with pacemakers? Do they bounce people in wheelchairs? (Oh, ok, in certain backward States in this land of the not-quite-so-free they might carry people in wheelchairs in just to make a point by humiliating them, but not in Oregon.)

Oh, and on the bathroom break thing (which, I admit, concerned me) Oregonians just wave happily at the judge. It is suggested, though, that one carries candies that don't make obnoxious sucking noises when consumed.

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Permalink Reply by mistressbinky on September 13, 2011 at 1:29pm

"If I'm selected do I have permission to test and eat during trial?" When judge said, "Nooo." I asked,, "What do judges and lawyers w/ diabetes do?" He had no answer and dismissed me. The lawyers told me to reconsider because I seem well rounded with an interesting perspective on life.

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Permalink Reply by latvianchick on September 13, 2011 at 2:57pm

Well, you were dismissed, so you cannot change your mind! Doh, didn't the lawyers realise that you had been dismissed? I think I would quite like to be on jury duty, diabetic or not - just that in the UK unemployed people are not asked to do so. Bit sillly really since we have all the time in the world!

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Permalink Reply by christy on September 13, 2011 at 6:23pm

Wow, thats interesting. Here if your registered to vote, it makes you eligible to be called for jury duty. Wow, I agree, I think it would be easier for people who are unemployed, I mean really, lol what's that got to do with anything.

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Permalink Reply by jbowler on September 14, 2011 at 10:36pm

I think you got that the wrong way round:

United States: you have to be a US citizen to be a juror; you do *not* have to have registered to vote.

United Kingdom: you have to have registered to vote to be a juror; you do *not* have to be a UK citizen.

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