brogusblue-would that be our local gp or the one nearest to the respite house?(its 25-30 miles away).
bowlingbun- the out of hours service is co-ordinated at our local hospital and all they could suggest was for the respite staff to put DD in their car and take her to the hospital 25-30 miles away to have this 12 second injection(it's simple, like an epipen,) late at night,leaving the one other staff member to get every other caree off to bed.She didn't quite comprehend why I thought that was somewhat unhelpful,and got huffy.
If i got ill, DD would be in trouble
They did send a doctor to do it that time, but won't do it again.The doctor phoned me when she got to the respite house and was rather short with me too(,after asking how to give the injection.)
the respite staff aren't allowed to give any sort of injection, but can receive training from District Nurses . I'm not allowed to show the staff -but I'll have to go and give the DN's training in how to do it .It 'ain't difficult. I was shown in 5 mins.(but I can follow instructions

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We've been waiting since june last year for a training session to be arranged with me , DN's and respite staff.Tried various times since, but no luck.
Fairymagic, apologies for gatecrashing your thread pet.
Flossie, i was just wondering, as our lasses have the same condition, is your lass not able to manage self-administering the injection? I know some don't feel comfortable with it but if it is like an epipen and the jab is just sc (under the skin)then could she do it herself with staff just observing she has dialled up the right amount on the pen?
Of course, a lot depends on what the injection is and if your dd is willing to do it! Rachael had 3 injections of rapid acting insulin, 1 of long term insulin and 1 of growth hormone every day, I was quite lucky as she was able to do this herself(even though she did ask me often, too lazy to do it herself sometimes!)
This rigmarole that you are having to go through is ludicrous..if she had a serious allergy, Im sure someone would be trained to use an epipen, even if they weren't medically qualified. Surely someone at the respite place could learn how to do it!
Perhaps dd's care manager/social worker can sort something out so one person can be trained..kind of defeats the purpose of the respite otherwise!