[Blindtlk] Two questions about administerring medicine.

[River Linda]

Hi,

Put a small cup near you when you pour her medicine into the spoon. Measure
medicine into spoon first, then pour spoonful into the cup.

I would never stick anyone with a needle, sighted or not. My doctor wanted
me to stick myself. i told him I would drop dead before that would happen.

It is nice the parent wants you to do this, and believes you can do it, but
everything is not for everybody.


On Thursday, May 21, 2015, Christopher-Mark Gilland via blindtlk <
blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I have two questions.  Again, now, I'm the one who probably is askking
> admittedly a very valid question, but yet a somewhat awquard question.
>
> I often have to babysit a little girl.  She's the  sweetest little thing
> at 4 years old, but blesser heart, she has two medications she has to take
> on a regular basis.  Usually, her mom gives them to her before leaving her
> for the evening in my care, but the mom has expressed that she really would
> like for me to learn to do this myself for her.  It's not a matter of her
> being lazy and not wanting to take care of her child.  Don't even go
> there!  It's just she is in her words, trying to prove to me that I can! do
> this, and that just because I am blind, doesn't mean anything in context of
> the action at hand.
>
> So, here's more specifically the deal.  She has to be given a kitchen
> spoon sized doce of liquid medicine.  I know it's usually the same
> principle as putting liquid on a spoon when cooking then putting it in your
> mixing bowl or whatever, but I cannot for the life of me find an easy way
> to do this. I'm always so frightened that I'm gonna miss and hit her eye,
> or bopper on the nose or worse when trying to get it in her mouth.  She
> usually does open up, which is a plus.  I don't think she really minds the
> taste, but it's just very hard for me, as I get really nurvous, and my
> hands start trembling.  I'm not so much scared of getting it in her mouth,
> as I am of spilling it off the spoon.  Yeah, I could pour it in a little
> cup then just have her drink it that way, but then it makes it really
> really hard to measure out the correct amount, and I'd be scared I'd give
> her too much, or too little.
>
> The other med she has to take is much, and I do mean much much much much!
> more difficult.  I do want some hints on the above, but here's the one I'm
> r'r'r'r'really! struggling with that I desperetly! could use some blind
> tips on.  She also has to take a medication which is injected as a shot.
> Poor baby!  And what makes it worse is, she's not exactly a very good sport
> about it either.  To say she's really brave is bigger than the state of
> Texas of a lie.  LOL!  Let's just say, you'd better be wearing ear plugs or
> cotton balls if you have sensitive ears, as it's ear screeching!  Anyway,
> the thing is, I don't just get scared the few times I've been asked to give
> it to her, but I just about pannick myself.  I know, one would say to me,
> there's my first problem right there!  Don't? pannick!  The first time I
> start that, I'll make it more scarey for her, plus, I'll start doing dumb
> things.  The mom has said for me to start by just taking a deep breath
> before I do it, but my biggest concern is, I can't feel  the point of the
> needle when it goes in.  Oh yeah, she screams bloody murder, which is
> usually an indication that I'm in, at which point, I push the plunger until
> it clicks, but my thing is, I can't see it go in, and being it's so sharp,
> I have naturally a really really heavy hand.  I'm scared I'll jabber!
> Actually, a few times, I have made about a half inch cut on her arm where
> she wenced back flinching in pain, and therefore my hand slipped.  I don't
> wanna grab her little arm too hard, as it's gonna hurt her already
> escrutiatingly as is, but then, you add my tight grip on top a that?  No?
> thank you!  We've tried having her lie down on her bed on her back, so that
> she can only resist but so much, but it still is very difficult.  Further,
> I'm even just as much scared that if I feel where I'm about to stick her,
> for one, it won't be staril, and for 2, I'm just as much, if not more,
> frightened that I'll wind up accidentally sticking myself.  Granted, I've
> not hit the plunger, so it's not like I'd get any of the medication, God
> forbid, but it still would hurt like a son of a gun!
>
> So, if any of you who're blind with absolutely no vision at all like
> shapes, colors, etc. have given an injection, especially even more so if it
> was to a little rugrat, how do you safely do this?  The mom is really
> insistant on, you can do this, you just need to relax, and calm down.  I
> just feel I'm always so tense, and hurky jerky when I do it.  There's gotta
> be a way!
>
> Chris.
>
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