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Close call

By MC - 14/05/2009 14:11 - Canada

Today, while working at a children's day camp, one of the kids who is allergic to peanuts went into anaphylactic shock. I ran and grabbed the boy's Epipen. I was holding it backwards so the injection went into my hand, causing me to pass out, and both of us to be rushed to hospital. FML

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Thursday 14 May 2009 20:24

Not panicking is a good thing. Also, paying attention during the first aid training. And it's "epi pen", for the record.

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Too bad you can't spell anything else....

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moosehead2 0

Monday 15 June 2009 4:25

awww i can totally understand, when your in a state of panick it would be easy to make that mistake

Andy_King 0

Saturday 16 May 2009 0:59

the person didn't try to inject it, when I reread the article I think the person grabbed it backwards and it injected him/her on the spot, not that the person tried to do it backwards

Andy_King 0

Saturday 16 May 2009 1:06

lol i love how everyone things the person pushed a button against the kid's leg if you touch the wrong end it shoots you and i know a lot of you have picked up a normal pen and pushed the wrong end against a piece of paper now imagine if you're just chilling there as a camp counselor, maybe as a summer job or something, and some kid runs up to you and says a kid passed out, you aren't going to take the time to make sure everything is perfect

laur20091 0

Friday 3 July 2009 16:32

I understand how this could happen. I know I would get really anxious if this happened to me and I wouldn't notice which way the needle was. hope you two were ok!

Doc_J65 0

Thursday 9 July 2009 19:08

there's an arrow the side that points to where the needle comes out. ydi

trulyinsane 0

Tuesday 28 July 2009 5:59

did it ever occur to you that not all epi pens are exactly the same?

Doc_J65 0

Thursday 9 July 2009 19:13

howeve, if you ever need to inject someone again, hopefully you'll remember this and do it right. ps: hold the pen by the barrel, not one of the end caps