Diabetic 9yr old with broken arm

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tom9980 wrote: »

So for £1600 a month take home + pension already doing 60 hour weeks in term time my wife is now expected to go on a course to learn to do bloods and inject insulin? When will she have the time to do this? Now during her holiday I presume? What if she makes a mistake and the child dies? Will she lose her job?

Basically get real won't happen.

Lets NOT turn this thread which is about helping a vulnerable child through a difficult time into another "hard done by teacher" discussion.

MadelinesMum

CH27 wrote: »

Why can't she be taught to inject herself before school restarts?

Because she has a broken arm.

Buzzybee90

What a tricky situation.

I can't really see a feasible answer, it's impractical for a parent to come in multiple times a day - if they're a stay at home parent, let alone working.

Teachers won't do it, even if they were allowed. It's quite a big responsibility. Though if there's someone that can be trained this is the obvious answer, not sure how likely that is though. Our teachers response to every injury was 'put a cold compress on it'!!

The poor girl can't do it herself with one arm. Is she ok with other people doing it, because that could be an issue too.

Buzzybee90

tom9980 wrote: »

The problem is yours not the schools, why should a teacher or TA be asked to do this just because it's not convenient for you?

I always thought teachers chose their profession because they wanted to help children. It's not the child's or parents fault she needs help is it, everyone needs to work together.

MadelinesMum

Thanks for some of the replies. She has been doing her own injections and testing herself but I expect she will not be able to do this. I don't mind going into the school and it will only be for a few weeks. I'm just not looking forward to all the backwards and forwards.

When she needed injections 4 years ago she was a lot younger and a TA did them for her and she could test herself.

Thanks again for the helpful replies.

Person_one

Does she have her proper cast on yet or is she still on the temporary one from A&E?

It might be that she can use her fingers quite well still and there won't be a problem, which would be ideal.

itsanne

Could someone help her with injecting herself so that she can use the 'good' hand to actually administer the injection while someone else stretches the skin (or whatever else the problem is)? Can't her insulin be given by a pen device which would be relatively easy to manage one handed? (I had a colleague who had such a thing and was very quick and discrete at injecting herself with it.)

tom9980

Buzzybee90 wrote: »

I always thought teachers chose their profession because they wanted to help children. It's not the child's or parents fault she needs help is it, everyone needs to work together.

Where does it end though? honestly too much of this is creeping into a profession where the aim is to teach children. Helping a child manage diabetes is much different from having to inject them.

My mum was a Teacher in a school for highly disabled children it was expected as part of the job to also manage their illnesses and even inject those children, those involved were highly trained as a result. It still didn't prevent one of those children dying in school.

I believe its unfair to expect the same from a normal Teacher or TA at this short a notice, the OP got lucky with the earlier TA performing the task in their place. The OP is paid with DLA to perform this role the state are stumping up the cash for her to manage the problem, but now would ideally like the state to again stump up the cash to do it, because its a hassle!!! how is that fair? it simply is not fair.

The OP states she is not impressed with how the school handles her child's diabetes after calling for an ambulance twice last year, i would love to know what untrained staff are supposed to do in such a situation given their lack of experience.

keep_flyin

Where does the OP say her daughter is getting DLA for her diabetes?

OP you should have a medical care plan agreed with the school, if the method of administration of insulin has been changed this needs to be updated.

missbiggles1

CHRISSYG wrote: »

Presumably under normal circumstances the child would be ! but with a broken arm injection herself will be impossible.

How complicated is it for her to do the injection using the non broken arm?