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Finger Pricking stabbings in School

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Did anyone else see this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-27692645

I'd have gone ape if one of my kids did this! Imagine the worry if your child had been pricked with it after it had been gawd only knows where and into 19 other people. Awful. Dread to think if he had decided to bring in the parent's insulin pen instead!
 
I think the parents of the child must be mortified

The story doesn't tell the circumstances, whether the kid randomly attacked other children with the pricker, or if he or she was demonstrating "how mummy/daddy test their diabetes ". Not that it matters in the long run,as the consequences are the same It would be horrible if it was malicious though .

I feel for the children involved, possibly having hepatitis vaccines

Signy
 
I know. The worry of extra vaccines and testing for illnesses picked up from contaminated needles now for them all.
Like you, I wonder what way in which it was done. The child's parent will have to be even more ultra careful where they leave their kit from now on. Not that we all have to be careful anyway.
 
The child's parent will have to be even more ultra careful where they leave their kit from now on. Not that we all have to be careful anyway.
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That's not gonna work at all - if the kid is determined to stab others then he'll be able to get the means at any stationary shop/sewing shop/etc.
 
Yep I agree Alex...in my day there was a kid who used to stab us all with a compass.
 
zand said:
Yep I agree Alex...in my day there was a kid who used to stab us all with a compass.
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Wow!

Possibly currently detained at Her Majesty's pleasure !

Signy
 
lol - I think he 'turned out OK' in the end! I'm not sure I tried to stay away from him!
 
AlexMBrennan said:
That's not gonna work at all - if the kid is determined to stab others then he'll be able to get the means at any stationary shop/sewing shop/etc.
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Yeah, I know. But still, no doubt social services will have to be involved as a child was able to get access to medical supplies and inflict damage on others in school using them. Could you imagine the nightmare that would be created if schools gave a knee jerk reaction and toughened up on what kids could carry in their own bags etc regarding diabetic supplies!
 


OOH!
I hadn't thought of that! It would be terrible if they did toughen up on diabetes management stuff in schools because of this one incident. The sad thing is, it's entirely possible

Signy
 
dear god, when I was at school it was pen and ink, we use to put the nib in a straw and throw it at each other..lots of blood, oh what fun.
the old school compass inflicted some nasty wounds too
 
Heathenlass said:
OOH!
I hadn't thought of that! It would be terrible if they did toughen up on diabetes management stuff in schools because of this one incident. The sad thing is, it's entirely possible

Signy
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Yes it is unfortunately, but I bet they won't ban compasses or safety pins.
 
When I was at school my diabetic supplies were kept in the nurses office and I wasn't allowed to have them with me.
I didn't stab anybody with them but those were the rules! There was me and two others that were diabetic and none of us were allowed to carry our monitors or insulin pens around with us and had to go into her office to test and inject at lunch times which was a pain!

Indiana x


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I got in big trouble in the 1980's at school because some syringes had started to appear in the playground with needles still attached. As I was the only diabetic in the school I was hauled to the head of year and given a HUGE dressing down and threatened with expulsion. Trouble is it was absolutely nothing to do with me.
Turns out a girl in my year had a diabetic older brother and had been pinching his syringes. No one ever believed me and I took the blame for it. I think this was one of the things that started me hiding my diabetes from people as I had also been beaten up badly by one boy who taunted me for being a junkie a few months earlier. Not good times. I haven't been comfortable with the condition ever since ad don't really like people to know about it.
 
Yes Auckland Canary, I feel for you. Being wrongly accused of something is horrid, I should imagine the diabetes was plenty for you to cope with without the added stress these incidents must have caused. I quite understand why you would be uncomfortable with it ever since, but it's really not right that you were made to feel that way in the first place. I'd like to say that things are better now, but I'm not convinced that's always true.
 
No I'm afraid I have encountered way too much ignorance about the condition over the years even from my own close relatives .I just try and keep on with it every day and not make a fuss about it.
 
How awful!
 
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