I blogged earlier about Calif. State Sen. Carole Migden’s erratic driving, so it behooves me to offer her own explanation for what happened after she was involved in not one, not two, but three accidents in one day:
State Sen. Carole Migden, whom the CHP now says may have been involved in as many as three traffic accidents last Friday, today revealed publicly for the first time that she has been battling leukemia for the past decade and that medication she takes may have caused her to become disoriented while driving.
“My only explanation is that it is medically related in some way,” Migden, 56, said in an interview with The Chronicle.
The Democratic lawmaker who represents San Francisco and Marin County said she plans to underdo neurological tests to try to determine what may have happened.
“I owe an explanation to the public and myself, and in particular the person I hurt,” she said, referring to the driver of a Honda sedan that was slightly injured in a rear-end collision. “I don’t have a recollection of what happened. I can only conclude I had a medical event I can’t explain. It’s not an excuse; it may be an explanation.”
Certainly, Migden deserves kudos for living a highly successful life, by any objective standards, with cancer. Indeed, the article indicates that she’s far exceeded her initial life expectancy following diagnosis. Nevertheless, it’s time for Migden to make some changes in her life if either the disease process or the medication are making her a danger to others.
Filed under: Uncategorized
If her blood is being weakened, she could be having blackouts from a deficiency. One way you could not remember is if there isn’t enough blood flowing to your brain. Which is a lot more serious in a way than if it was just pain killers.
No one is above the law ,no matter how important they think and other people think they are.
Law must nail the patricians and set the example for the plebians. You know, like an income audit, on the political and hollywood rich now and then ,to keep others cowering.
This is not unlike the person prone to seizures. If you know of the condition, then don’t put yourself in a position where you can hurt others, such as driving a car – this is torts I stuff.
I’m in bar review now. What can I say?
Her statement that it’s an explanation rather than an excuse is very good. I don’t know much about her political positions, but this is certainly an excellent example of taking responsibility for one’s actions.
Since we are on the topic of medication, quess who turned 666 . . er I mean 66 this year ? Robert Allen Zimmerman,that’s right, every conservatives favorite ,Bob Dylan ! The Times They Are a – Changin rings more truer today than it did in the 60’s(need no explanation why here)
Anways ,enough Blowin in the Wind for now.
Sorry about her illness, and that’s all swell – but her initial reaction to the situation: “do you know who I am?” remains impermissable, and isn’t improved in the least by her explanation.
Under pressure her first reaction was gigantic ego and arrogance. First reactions are all-too-often telling.