Scary morning at work / myLot

United States

May 12, 2025 2:53pm CST

I was going down to use the bathroom this morning while the students were watching the video. I saw my work BFF with a student sitting in a chair and he was freaking out. I thought he was having a panic attack but nope--he was in anaphylactic shock. He was freaking out and scared. She was trying to calm him down while they waited for the nurse with the epi-pen. It took her forever to show up and then she just looked at it as if she didn't know what to do with it. My friend grabbed it from the nurse and gave it to the student. He is scared of needles and said he couldn't do it but she encouraged him and gave him a countdown. The poor kid managed to stab it into his thigh and administer it. Eventually administration showed up but there was like no sense of urgency from anyone other than my friend and the student. It was crazy. I then about went crazy because he was wheeled past my room on a gurney by the EMTs with an oxygen mask and one of the students who saw him go by started laughing. I was livid. I hope he is okay now. No one had heard any updates on him by the end of the day.

9 people like this

9 responses

Amber

@AmbiePam (98019)

• United States

10h

That is terrifying. And anyone who didn’t take that seriously is nuts.

3 people like this

snowy

@snowy22315 (189183)

• United States

10h

Let's hope everything is OK. It's really strange that a school nurse wouldn't know how to use an epi pen

3 people like this

Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (163426)

• United States

That's crazy. He should have his epi pen on him at all times. More people need to be trained. And LAUGHING at him--sheesh!!

2 people like this

@DaddyEvil (147769)

• United States

We learned Pretty couldn't give me an epi-pen shot last month... She's seen me do it but wasn't paying attention. I had to walk her through getting it ready and then she handed it to me... Edit to add: I couldn't see at the time. I hope the kid is okay and you hear about him soon. Usually, an epi-pen shot makes me sleep for the next day or so. In the hospital, the nurses kept waking me up and telling me I had to stay awake after they gave me an epi-pen shot... I prefer to stay home after that trip to the ER. The nurses obviously don't know how people react to a shot of epinephrine... Somebody needs to explain it to them but they wouldn't listen to me. On the epi-pen casing, it says to report to the ER after self-injecting...