Seizure In Jail

Location: Colorado
I was serving a 60 day sentence in a county jail. I had never been in trouble before in my life so I didn’t know what to expect. I am a commercial pilot with a history of seizures (none since 2011). I made sure my attorneys dropped off my prescribed medications at intake the day I was processed. I was given “bottom bunk only” restrictions due to my Hx of seizures.
After about a week of back and forth written and verbal communication with the medical staff and mental health department I was still not being given my medications that I’ve been on since 2011. I saw the nurse on my 7th day there, told her I felt like I was going to have a seizure, and was visibly trembling. That night they assigned me to a top bunk in the dorm area of the jail, where I almost immediately had a grand-mal seizure (on the bunk). If another inmate didn’t support my body I would have fallen onto the cememt floor. I was then taken to the hospital where I was given a dose of my medication. When I got back to the jail a sergeant took me into a private room and accused me of “cheeking my pills” (the melatonin they had me on) and told me a guard had found a white powder under my mattress. This is impossible because A) I was not cheeking any pills, I’m not sure how one even does that..and B) I’m on the cameras spraying my bunk down with cleaning spray, then making my bed on top of a clean bunk less than an hour before I had the seizure. I hadn’t left my bed since spraying it down. Some of the guards made comments like “he’s botttom bunk only, I hope I’m not the one who assigned him the top bunk.” When I asked to see the footage (which I knew didn’t exist) I was told I couldn’t because it was in the sergeant’s office and I couldn’t go in with him.
For the remainder of my stay (42 days total) I was not given any of the medications I’ve been prescribed for all those seizure-free years and was absolutely miserable while people who definitely did not need meds were given them freely.
I’m totally aware that it’s jail; you’re there for punishment, and it’s not supposed to be like a stay at the Four Seasons..but I would hope that you’d at least get treated with a little bit of dignity by the medical/mental health staff. I had repeatedly given them the names, phone numbers, and even cell numbers of the prescribing doctors and nothing was done. I thought certainly if my lawyers dropped off the actual medication, along with the written prescriptions, then there would be no issues with the verificaiton and subsequent distribution of said medications..but apparently I was wrong.
I’ve been advised by multiple attorneys and even a friend who is a District Attorney in another state that I should consider suing the county, jail, and medical staff for negligence, pain & suffering, among other things. I was offered a side-gig flying for a small corporation, not a lot of extra income, but maybe 10-15k extra per month..which is now being reconsidered after disclosing my latest seizure.
Any advice on what to do moving forward woud be greatly appreciated.
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