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tiarna_bronach

La Vie

Mar 25, 2009 09:29

( Life is being Itself, though rather more than usual )

uncharacteristic optimism, the jeep, life, car troubles, unusually long posts

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kilerkki March 25 2009, 16:03:47 UTC

Wow, I'm really grateful Alun and everyone involved in teh accident are okay! I hope things work out well for the both of you. One concern, though; has Alun ever blacked out like this before? If this is a problem that has previous occurred and of which he was aware, he may be liable. If, however, it was a sudden illness of which he had no warning, you're probably good.

*hugs and wishes well*

tiarna_bronach March 25 2009, 16:26:13 UTC

Thanks for the well-wishes. ^_^ Your concern is pretty much what we're trying to figure out right now; just before he passed out he was having stomach pain, which has happened before--not for years now, but sometimes the scar tissue from the appendectomy he had when he was three will act up. He's never blacked out from it before though, which is the part that might help our case (?) but nevertheless makes all of us a little nervous. Even if we do end up being liable I think we'll be fine, and since they'll pay to get him in to see a doctor, either way we'll get to figure out if there's anything else wrong. Which, to me at least, is the important part.

kilerkki March 25 2009, 16:33:12 UTC

Something like that should be okay. The cases I've read with similar fact-patterns to this have involved people with epilepsy; if you've never had an epileptic attack before, or had one ten years ago and believe it's controlled by medication which you're taking faithfully, and you suffer an attack that causes an accident, you're not even being negligent because you didn't know and had no reason to know that there would be a problem. Thus, if Alun's never blacked out before and had no reason to know that he would black out, he should be okay.

tiarna_bronach March 25 2009, 16:38:12 UTC

Good to know. And thank you--the lawyer perspective is very, very much appreciated. ^___^

chibidrunksanzo March 26 2009, 05:27:04 UTC

This may have absolutely nothing to do with Alun's problem, but I've had stomach pain cause me to almost black out before. As in, vision narrowing, ears ringing almost black out. On the other hand, I've had stomach pain worse than that without the blacking out feeling. Bodies are weird, what can I say. (For me it's IBS that causes it. I can mostly control that with diet.)

Edit: And I totally hit post before I remembered to say I'm so glad everyone's alright! I hope you guys can get the blacking out figured out soon.

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