Diabetic 9yr old with broken arm

System

missbiggles1 wrote: »

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

no idea but if you are talking blood glucose tests then I suspect very difficult at the very least !

As an adult who does this I wouldn't fancy trying to do it with one hand!

Nicki

Even if she doesn't work unless the school is next door or she drives it could be unmanageable.

My children's school was 1.5 miles away, so each trip there was a 3 mile walk for me. Adding in two extra trips a day to administer medication makes that 12 miles per day on foot rather than 6. Leaving aisle the times you arrive to find the class teacher has forgotten and your child is off site at the library, local shops, swimming pool, etc

2 additional trips into school every day for 3-4 weeks is not manageable for a lot of parents working or otherwise.

*Twinkle*

some pretty sh*tty replies on this thread!
theres a fab facebook group called t1 children rights at school, join that, there is some brilliant advice
come September the school cannot refuse to help your child, again, look at this group, all the info is there.
my daughter is diabetic and her school cant do enough to help her, they did her injections and blood tests before she went on the pump, theyve managed her pump very well for the past year and they are now being trained to change the pump if it fails whilst at school.
you can pm me if youd like, I wont come back to this thread as some posters are very ignorant!
I hope your daughters arm heals soon and levels aren't being affected too much

System

TBH from your replies I get the impression that your definitions of a sh*tty reply is anything that doesn't put full responsibility on some official body to do something.

Nicki

My definition of a sh*tty reply is those who take pleasure in a young child's incapacity and finding ways to make life difficult for her parents, and those who use the fact that the child is sufficiently disabled to entitle the family to claim both DLA and CA as a stick to beat the family with, as to be entitled to both these benefits the level of disability is considerable.

littlesnuggy

Nicki wrote: »

I would not be at all happy with a primary school child with no experience administering any form of injection to a peer to be honest and I would be amazed at a school allowing this. Leaving aside insulin dosages, etc needle hygiene and safety would be a big concern. My husband aged late 20's proved incapable of giving me injections during IVF treatment without giving himself needlesticks!

OP I would still say speak to the local authority and the school and find a solution. You may need to be forceful and make it their problem to solve otherwise they could let it drift until the cast comes off anyway. I would start by asking pleasantly if there is a protocol and if there isn't and they aren't forthcoming with a solution voluntarily, and your daughter can't inject herself so will have to stay home, remind them of their statutory obligation to provide 8 hours per week personal home tuition to children off school will for more than 21 days and require this to be in place for your daughter from day 22. That will almost certainly cost more than someone qualified dropping in to school for 5 mins twice a day and so should focus their minds on a sensible solution.

Well quite, it would be vastly preferable for an adult to do it but apparently teachers/school staff won't do this (I do not have any children so I have no idea). What I was suggesting did not involve 'administering an injection', it only involved holding a plastic pen whilst the other child (who knows what she is doing) twiddles the dial and then holding her friend's skin for a few seconds. It is not a complicated procedure (the 9 year old could do it herself if not for the broken arm); the only complication is getting the dose right which the little girl could do herself. Admittedly though, there could be concern about the other girl being close to the sharp needle so I guess that rules out my suggestion.

thatgirlsam

It might be worth asking for a District Nurse referral. However they (in my area) only usually see housebound patients. Worth an ask at least. Bit of a tricky situation.

System

Nicki wrote: »

My definition of a sh*tty reply is those who take pleasure in a young child's incapacity and finding ways to make life difficult for her parents, and those who use the fact that the child is sufficiently disabled to entitle the family to claim both DLA and CA as a stick to beat the family with, as to be entitled to both these benefits the level of disability is considerable.

What? You mean suggesting that the family put some of the extra money awarded for the additional care required toward caring for the child in this situation is a sh*tty reply?

Vikipollard

I'm appalled. What an awful bunch of jobsworths at your daughter's school.


At the school I worked in we had a child who suffered from anaphylaxis. All the support staff volunteered to be shown how to save his life. Some of the teachers did too, but there were the hardcore who said it 'wasn't their job'. Guess what, not ours either, but we're there to support the welfare and education of the children. Must be that it's only okay for non-teachers to be sued if it goes wrong.... I'd rather know that I'd tried than stand back looking the other way.


If it's suitable for children to be shown how to inject themselves, then it's suitable for the adults to be shown too. As others have said, it's a short term measure before a 9 YEAR OLD takes over control again.


I hope your daughter gets better soon OP, and that you find someone with some decency at the school to work with you to support her.

Tigsteroonie

!!!!!! wrote: »

What? You mean suggesting that the family put some of the extra money awarded for the additional care required toward caring for the child in this situation is a sh*tty reply?

But we don't know that the OP is receiving any extra money, so that's a bit of an assumption.