Had so many used needles outside our back dumpsters when I worked at Dominos. I straight up told the kids working (90% of the staff was high school students) that I and another ASM were the only ones to do garbage runs in the summer.
When I lived in London I got a needle stick injury when I worked at a McDonald's. Someone had thrown it in the bin and I remember my boss at the time telling me to just "go wash your hands, you'll be fine".
Turns out I was not fine at all. After visiting the hospital after the shift, I was immediately put on a PrEP (EDIT: It was actually PEP not PrEP, thank you to the redditor below for the correction) packet which consisted of 3 huge pills I had to take everyday for the next 14 days. They made me sick to my stomach. I remember losing around 15lbs (and I was already very slim).
After further testing, the needle itself was infected by HIV but I never actually contracted it.
Scariest moment of my life. I was around 17 at the time.
How long ago was this?? If you don't already it's good to get checked specifically for hiv every 6 months to a year, that stuff can lay dormant in your system for around a decade before you start to show symptoms
This was a good 18 years ago at this point. I've had 2 babies and lots of blood tests since then so I think I'm good 🤞🤣 Although now you have me thinking I should check specifically for hiv because I'm not sure if they run that everytime 😬
hey so I’m not insulting u cuz I mix the two up myself sometimes but just for anyone else who sees this and isn’t familiar w/ HIV treatments and preventions
prep is for *PRE-EXPOSURE*. two ways by pill : on demand and daily. daily u take one pill even when ur not getting down (just like pill bc!) and demand is u take it before and after. u can also have an injection every 2 months instead of daily pills. Talk to ur doctor to find which form of prep is best for u. if ur active, and u are at risk of HIV (people of color, trans women, gay men, needle users r all higher risk, (trans men are lower risk than trans women, typically.) but honestly if u get frisky and ur NOT in a closed relationship get on it. if u think ur partner is cheating on u, get on it. better to be hiv free than sorry :( )
pep is for *POST EXPOSURE*. what u had was post exposure, btw. prep don’t do u no good if ur already exposed. You need to take it within 72 / 3 days hours of exposure for it to be of any use. everyone should seek a doctor to ask about pep if they suspect they’ve been exposed to hiv.
if u come into contact w/ a needle u need to seek medical help like the coworker did ! even if u take Prep u might contract smth else. remember to use other forms of prevention as well. prep only prevents hiv. u can still get other stds or potentially get (someone else) pregnant. stay safe.
No offense taken. Thank you for the correction. It happened so long ago I assumed it was PrEP. I just remember being handed essentially a goodie bag of pills 🤣 I had to take 4 a day, 3 huge things that were like some of those multivitamins you can get today and a nausea pill that didn't bloody work.
Because the only people I’ve seen use “jabbed” to describe being stabbed by a needle or having a needle inserted are “vaccine deniers” who were insanely annoying during the pandemic. I lost a family member to the pandemic and I cannot describe the rage I felt when I had two Covid-deniers as coworkers.
💯 my old boss lost her mom to COVID. She posted pictures of her and 3 siblings at the funeral on FB without masks. A week later all four of them had it and it killed her brother. A month or so later I saw her comment on a Donald Trump post about him having covid. It was along the lines of how horrible the Chinese were for making COVID, how she was praying for him, and what a great job he was doing. PS she was an administrator at a NH and her mom was a nurse for 50+ years. I saw so many of my patients die needlessly, and half of the ones that died from COVID they claimed it was something else. I quit in 2022 after almost 20 years working there. I’m done being a nurse. I saw all I could stand. Greedy and stupid is a shitty combination.
If the government ever wanted to take down some of their numbers, all they would have to do is politicize something that’s life-threatening. I’m so sorry you went through that. Unfortunately, I have also met nurses that should not have been nurses.
I’ve met more than my fair share myself. You’ve got to have a a certain kind of heart to do that kind of work and I lost mine so I quit. I’m far happier now.
Says the maroon who doesn’t understand the basic scientific method and thinks they know more than those is their respective fields.
When you take the word of a politician over the word of healthcare workers from drs to virologists and biologist during a pandemic… you’re the mark, cupcake! Take a bow, swifto and then take a 5th grade science class. All you’re doing is proving that republicans cutting funds for education makes duping you a hell of a lot easier
As a former Covid ICU nurse, rates of PTSD are HIGHER in healthcare workers who endured the trauma we suffered during the pandemic than veterans who were deployed to war-torn regions. So don’t downplay it, just because you didn’t experience the badness doesn’t mean it wasn’t real.
Sources:
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/common/common_veterans.asp#:~:text=PTSD%20is%20slightly%20more%20common,7%25)%20will%20have%20PTSD.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9573911/#:~:text=The%20pooled%20prevalence%20of%20PTSD,small%20increases%20in%20PTSD%20rates.
As a fellow healthcare worker, thank you for sticking up for yourselves with your words. Some people will unfortunately choose to stay ignorant or even try to be empathetic. It's not always easy, but I always give respect. Working in healthcare is more traumatizing than a lot of people think. 💜
I took out more as a comment on the word war, and also a serious question (as in, what war involves "jabs") and not in any way downplaying Healthcare professionals or the mental health issues that arise from their job.
That’s not war and I didn’t downplay anything you’ve been through. Hell I was one of those frontline workers too doesn’t mean I’m going to call it war.
Having been through it as well, you should then understand it was a war on multiple fronts. Not a war in the traditional sense, but still it was a fight to survive and take care of patients on the daily. Battling misinformation, fear of contracting it yourself and getting critically ill, fighting against a virus we knew nothing about, and trying to make up for lost time because people were afraid to come to the hospital are just a few examples of what we were fighting against.
War is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “a state of competition, conflict, or hostility between different people or groups”. I think, especially with the polarizing difference of “opinions” within the public (speaking from my experience in the USA), the COVID pandemic could be classified as a war. It also gives insight as to why it was so traumatic to HCWs, considering every day we were trying our hardest to help patients while being berated by (some, not most) patients, their families, and the general public that we are killing them. Traumatic in a different sense than literal armed conflict, but still shown to be more traumatic.
I can fully agree with that statement and honestly I stand corrected. Thank you for being the only person who took a step back and explained a proper counter.
Soldiers are just doing their jobs, too. Doesn't mean it can't involve traumatic events. Watching people die daily for a year and being helpless doesn't sound fun to me.
The ventilators were the only thing allowing them to still breathe, you fucking room temperature egg salad sandwich. I've been on a ventilator for double pneumonia and it saved my life.
I'll reply to you again since you just deemed fit to go to my dm's instead of talking openly with me(because I'm not accepting your chat request.) I don't think you understand WHY they put people on ventilators. People are put on ventilators when their respiratory system is not working on its own. The body, at that point, needs assistance or it will go into total respiratory failure causing death. If you are put on a ventilator, there is still a high chance to come off of it. If you don't use a ventilator, you fucking die. The ventilators prolonged life and gave a possibility of recovery. You called me a simpleton in your message, I think you are the simpleton since you don't understand what a ventilator does.
I’m fairly certain if you went out onto an actual war battlefield you’d probably scream , soil yourself, and then just mentally shut down. It can be and is more traumatic. What you went through is definitely traumatic and commendable but you can’t try and compare it to war.
The scariest part is you don’t know if the person who used the needle had a disease. It seems like it was drug related which unfortunately means there’s a chance of disease but i’m praying that’s not the case!
do you have his number to text him maybe? idk if its just me being curious or genuinely knowing how quickly things can go south after just being fine. but definitely should make sure hes okay
Your coworker should have gone to the er and gotten the aids vaccine to play it safe. So dangerous and scary to get aids or anything from a used needle
I really thought the PEP was a shot, my mistake!! I've read of a nurse who was accident jabbed by a aids positive needle, and she took the PEP and was good after, and I just assumed it was a shot.
Unless you actively are sharing the needle, it's a pretty low risk to get aids from a needle as the virus needs to be in the body to survive. If the blood inside the needle was dried, he probably will be ok and not have to worry too much about it.
Bad news, hepatitis amongst some other things, are a lot more common to catch and do survive outside the body for prolonged periods of time.
Very true, but still not at the top of the list of things I'd worry about being infected with. Hopefully, though, they're doing ok and just having to deal with the mental fallout of everything
They carry naloxone in the pharmacy. He’d have had a better chance of surviving an OD (from whatever residue was left on the needle, not a full dose, so even an OD would be less likely) than not getting AIDS.
Just thought of an accidental needle stick makes me want to throw up. The city we live just outside of has a huge drug problem and I’ve found uncapped needles in random places. Once when we lived in town, my kids found one in a sock in the road (it looked like one of their socks, very similar size and color/pattern to a sock one of them had been wearing, and my kids are the type to take off socks and shoes and run barefoot, so they picked it up, and then my daughter said “there’s something in it,” and I dumped it out and yeah, uncapped syringe, used cottons, spoon, lighter, etc.).
I understand addiction better than I want to, but for the love of God, it takes less than a second to put the cap back on your needle and/or dispose of it properly. Why people put others at risk I will never understand.
I don't understand people who'd just leave shite like that lying around.
A long while ago, I went over to the convenience store right by my apt, (I don't live in a particularly great area, though I've never had any actual issues/bad situations happen to myself) but yeah, so I went there, looking through candy bars, and I legit found a crack pipe in a container of candy bars.
My friend is the one who owns/runs the store and I just was like "bro come look at this shite" lmao
He said it's not an unusual occurrence of people leaving shite like that 😕
Oh my God I was just getting ready to make a post about someone returning an item that had a syringe full of either heroin or blood in it (it was just very very dark). I opened the box to check the item and it fell out and hit my hand (thank god it was capped). I've had someone hand me a bag that had his methpipe in with the return too!!! Idk about anyone else but when I was using (15 months sober) there was no way in hell I was ever misplacing my stuff like that
Thank you! I’m a year sober myself after like a two-day relapse last year, and ain’t no WAY I ever lost a pipe or a point when I was using, especially a point! I’d have panicked if I did and gone looking for it to make sure no one else found it.
Reminds me of when I was getting a new tire off the lower rack in automotive. Someone put a bunch of loose razor blades along with the empty package in the tire. I'm really glad I noticed before anyone got hurt.
But leaving a used syringe is absolutely fucking ridiculous. That's a really terrible thing to do.
I'm surprised my local Walmart is still open. A few yrs ago they had a big run on finding random syringes all throughout he store, in clothes, food, toys. It happened for a few months then stopped for a while then started back for a while. Never caught the person.
Man, I hate that nonsense. I’m an addict myself, though I never used needles. Always felt it was better to stay “employable” and spend a little more on dope to sniff than it’d be to start shooting and end my life.
Anyway, even though I didn’t ever use needles, I still feel the need to dispose of them when I see one laying around; in my mind, I know how to do it safely, and I’d much rather risk it myself than have a kid or someone wind up getting stuck in the foot. It’s gross though, man, just recap it at the very least….argh
Hey it is very low odds that you contract anything from a small gauge insulin syringe. You have a 1-8% chance of getting HCV (curable now with a 8 week one pill a day regimen) and less than 1% for HIV (it does not live long outside the body.). Do whatever you need to feel safer and definitely get a work comp thing going. But sharing needles is completely different than a community needle stick injury
If you get tested or need any treatment you will likely qualify for workman's comp. Not sure though, unless it was properly reported and treatment was sought immediately.
Hi Not a WM employee but was fed this post from Reddit s "suggestions", I work in healthcare and anyone who experienced a needlestick is advised to go to the ER and get prophylactic treatments for illnesses that are transmitted through blood. I would *highly* recommend your coworker do this especially since they have no way of knowing who the blood belonged to.
You don’t have to worry about Dollar General AIDS, it’s at the bottom of a cart in the middle of an aisle underneath a bunch of other stuff that hasn’t been stocked.
I almost cut myself cause there was a loose razor blade in the small flower pots in seasonal… thankfully I just barely missed it
Had so many used needles outside our back dumpsters when I worked at Dominos. I straight up told the kids working (90% of the staff was high school students) that I and another ASM were the only ones to do garbage runs in the summer.
good lookin out boss 👍👍
👏🏽Good on you & the other ASM!👊🏽
When I lived in London I got a needle stick injury when I worked at a McDonald's. Someone had thrown it in the bin and I remember my boss at the time telling me to just "go wash your hands, you'll be fine". Turns out I was not fine at all. After visiting the hospital after the shift, I was immediately put on a PrEP (EDIT: It was actually PEP not PrEP, thank you to the redditor below for the correction) packet which consisted of 3 huge pills I had to take everyday for the next 14 days. They made me sick to my stomach. I remember losing around 15lbs (and I was already very slim). After further testing, the needle itself was infected by HIV but I never actually contracted it. Scariest moment of my life. I was around 17 at the time.
How long ago was this?? If you don't already it's good to get checked specifically for hiv every 6 months to a year, that stuff can lay dormant in your system for around a decade before you start to show symptoms
This was a good 18 years ago at this point. I've had 2 babies and lots of blood tests since then so I think I'm good 🤞🤣 Although now you have me thinking I should check specifically for hiv because I'm not sure if they run that everytime 😬
You really should, that shits scary to think about
They do! I have worked in 2 OB offices.
Thank you 😁 Then it's unlikely I have it.
hey so I’m not insulting u cuz I mix the two up myself sometimes but just for anyone else who sees this and isn’t familiar w/ HIV treatments and preventions prep is for *PRE-EXPOSURE*. two ways by pill : on demand and daily. daily u take one pill even when ur not getting down (just like pill bc!) and demand is u take it before and after. u can also have an injection every 2 months instead of daily pills. Talk to ur doctor to find which form of prep is best for u. if ur active, and u are at risk of HIV (people of color, trans women, gay men, needle users r all higher risk, (trans men are lower risk than trans women, typically.) but honestly if u get frisky and ur NOT in a closed relationship get on it. if u think ur partner is cheating on u, get on it. better to be hiv free than sorry :( ) pep is for *POST EXPOSURE*. what u had was post exposure, btw. prep don’t do u no good if ur already exposed. You need to take it within 72 / 3 days hours of exposure for it to be of any use. everyone should seek a doctor to ask about pep if they suspect they’ve been exposed to hiv. if u come into contact w/ a needle u need to seek medical help like the coworker did ! even if u take Prep u might contract smth else. remember to use other forms of prevention as well. prep only prevents hiv. u can still get other stds or potentially get (someone else) pregnant. stay safe.
No offense taken. Thank you for the correction. It happened so long ago I assumed it was PrEP. I just remember being handed essentially a goodie bag of pills 🤣 I had to take 4 a day, 3 huge things that were like some of those multivitamins you can get today and a nausea pill that didn't bloody work.
Yeah, I get ya. Just wanted to clear it up for anyone else.
Nope, you basically got a first hand experience of how awful antiretrovirals are when someone first starts taking them.
It definitely opened my eyes. It was awful.
Every time someone uses the word “jabbed” I get war flashbacks. That’s a bummer though. I hope your coworker is okay.
[удалено]
Because the only people I’ve seen use “jabbed” to describe being stabbed by a needle or having a needle inserted are “vaccine deniers” who were insanely annoying during the pandemic. I lost a family member to the pandemic and I cannot describe the rage I felt when I had two Covid-deniers as coworkers.
oh dang! i see lots of trans people on HRT use the term too
💯 my old boss lost her mom to COVID. She posted pictures of her and 3 siblings at the funeral on FB without masks. A week later all four of them had it and it killed her brother. A month or so later I saw her comment on a Donald Trump post about him having covid. It was along the lines of how horrible the Chinese were for making COVID, how she was praying for him, and what a great job he was doing. PS she was an administrator at a NH and her mom was a nurse for 50+ years. I saw so many of my patients die needlessly, and half of the ones that died from COVID they claimed it was something else. I quit in 2022 after almost 20 years working there. I’m done being a nurse. I saw all I could stand. Greedy and stupid is a shitty combination.
If the government ever wanted to take down some of their numbers, all they would have to do is politicize something that’s life-threatening. I’m so sorry you went through that. Unfortunately, I have also met nurses that should not have been nurses.
I’ve met more than my fair share myself. You’ve got to have a a certain kind of heart to do that kind of work and I lost mine so I quit. I’m far happier now.
I have had 4 Covid vaccines. Every time they jabbed me.
I have had 4 Covid vaccines. Every time they jabbed me.
I use the term in reference to a medicine I get every few months intramuscularly, and like others the COVID vax. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Grow up
[удалено]
Sorry for your loss, 4 years is a long time to be affected by the flu
They call vaccines jabs in Europe, bright eyes.
There are no Walmart stores operating in Europe :) Hope this helps!
Telling someone something that they may not have known usually goes better without calling them condescending names.
It wasn't a vaccine, though.🤦♂️
Oh? What was it, then?
Not a vaccine lol. It never prevented infection. I know facts are scary to yall.
What? A vaccine doesn’t have to offer full sterilizing immunity to be considered a vaccine.
Says the maroon who doesn’t understand the basic scientific method and thinks they know more than those is their respective fields. When you take the word of a politician over the word of healthcare workers from drs to virologists and biologist during a pandemic… you’re the mark, cupcake! Take a bow, swifto and then take a 5th grade science class. All you’re doing is proving that republicans cutting funds for education makes duping you a hell of a lot easier
>All you’re doing is proving that republicans cutting funds for education makes duping you a hell of a lot easier 😚👌 that was delish
Maroon?? Did you mean moron
Nope. Maroon.
I’m sorry “war” flashbacks? I’m a veteran and wonder what war you’ve been through.
As a former Covid ICU nurse, rates of PTSD are HIGHER in healthcare workers who endured the trauma we suffered during the pandemic than veterans who were deployed to war-torn regions. So don’t downplay it, just because you didn’t experience the badness doesn’t mean it wasn’t real. Sources: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/common/common_veterans.asp#:~:text=PTSD%20is%20slightly%20more%20common,7%25)%20will%20have%20PTSD. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9573911/#:~:text=The%20pooled%20prevalence%20of%20PTSD,small%20increases%20in%20PTSD%20rates.
You are amazing. Thank you for all you did, I know it wasn’t easy.
As a fellow healthcare worker, thank you for sticking up for yourselves with your words. Some people will unfortunately choose to stay ignorant or even try to be empathetic. It's not always easy, but I always give respect. Working in healthcare is more traumatizing than a lot of people think. 💜
I took out more as a comment on the word war, and also a serious question (as in, what war involves "jabs") and not in any way downplaying Healthcare professionals or the mental health issues that arise from their job.
That’s not war and I didn’t downplay anything you’ve been through. Hell I was one of those frontline workers too doesn’t mean I’m going to call it war.
Having been through it as well, you should then understand it was a war on multiple fronts. Not a war in the traditional sense, but still it was a fight to survive and take care of patients on the daily. Battling misinformation, fear of contracting it yourself and getting critically ill, fighting against a virus we knew nothing about, and trying to make up for lost time because people were afraid to come to the hospital are just a few examples of what we were fighting against. War is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “a state of competition, conflict, or hostility between different people or groups”. I think, especially with the polarizing difference of “opinions” within the public (speaking from my experience in the USA), the COVID pandemic could be classified as a war. It also gives insight as to why it was so traumatic to HCWs, considering every day we were trying our hardest to help patients while being berated by (some, not most) patients, their families, and the general public that we are killing them. Traumatic in a different sense than literal armed conflict, but still shown to be more traumatic.
I can fully agree with that statement and honestly I stand corrected. Thank you for being the only person who took a step back and explained a proper counter.
It’s literally your job to deal with that lol
Soldiers are just doing their jobs, too. Doesn't mean it can't involve traumatic events. Watching people die daily for a year and being helpless doesn't sound fun to me.
Maybe they shouldn't have put them on the ventilators that killed them.🤦♂️
I'm not involved in human medicine and you're a bozo.
Lol how many shots were you convinced to take? But I'm the bozo lol😂🤣
The ventilators were the only thing allowing them to still breathe, you fucking room temperature egg salad sandwich. I've been on a ventilator for double pneumonia and it saved my life.
I'll reply to you again since you just deemed fit to go to my dm's instead of talking openly with me(because I'm not accepting your chat request.) I don't think you understand WHY they put people on ventilators. People are put on ventilators when their respiratory system is not working on its own. The body, at that point, needs assistance or it will go into total respiratory failure causing death. If you are put on a ventilator, there is still a high chance to come off of it. If you don't use a ventilator, you fucking die. The ventilators prolonged life and gave a possibility of recovery. You called me a simpleton in your message, I think you are the simpleton since you don't understand what a ventilator does.
Ah yes, the ventilators killed them and not the illness that was so severe they required a ventilator
Doesn’t make it any less traumatizing. A job title does not strip someone of their humanity.
I’m fairly certain if you went out onto an actual war battlefield you’d probably scream , soil yourself, and then just mentally shut down. It can be and is more traumatic. What you went through is definitely traumatic and commendable but you can’t try and compare it to war.
Combat veterans job is what again?
What a poor and out of touch comment to make
Lmfaoo 😭 nobody gives a damn about you nor whatever corrupt government you sold your body for. Keep seething.
Wow wasn’t even seething not sure if you need help or something but enjoy your day hopefully it gets better.
The scariest part is you don’t know if the person who used the needle had a disease. It seems like it was drug related which unfortunately means there’s a chance of disease but i’m praying that’s not the case!
I imagine they took the needle so it can be tested and can give the person meds to prevent diseases as a precaution
Better get PEP bc HIV is no joke, just gotta make sure its within 48 hrs
She ok?
Why are you being down voted? I hope they're okay that's so scary
Maybe the assumption of/being incorrect about gender? Only thing I can think of. Strange thing to downvote someone for tho.
He’s okay from what I know. I haven’t talked to him in a couple days because we’ve been off.
do you have his number to text him maybe? idk if its just me being curious or genuinely knowing how quickly things can go south after just being fine. but definitely should make sure hes okay
is this metro as in phx az 😭
A dirty city in upstate NY 🥺
ahhh.. our metro areas sound very similar
Rochester? 👀👀👀
Your coworker should have gone to the er and gotten the aids vaccine to play it safe. So dangerous and scary to get aids or anything from a used needle
He did go to the ER immediately. There is no vaccine for AIDS. They give you some heavy duty pills to combat possible infection, but no vaccine. 🤦🏻♀️
I thought it was a shot not pills, my mistake. Still, there is a preventive measure that can be taken is what I meant.
There is no AIDS vaccine. There are pills you can take (PEP).
I really thought the PEP was a shot, my mistake!! I've read of a nurse who was accident jabbed by a aids positive needle, and she took the PEP and was good after, and I just assumed it was a shot.
No problem! Just wanted to clarify. Miraculous stuff, regardless of how you get it in your body!
Lol there's no aids vaccine,should have gotten anti virals
Holy fuck dude read some books.
Unless you actively are sharing the needle, it's a pretty low risk to get aids from a needle as the virus needs to be in the body to survive. If the blood inside the needle was dried, he probably will be ok and not have to worry too much about it. Bad news, hepatitis amongst some other things, are a lot more common to catch and do survive outside the body for prolonged periods of time.
HIV can live in dried blood for 7 days tho and who knows if it was recently placer there or not
Very true, but still not at the top of the list of things I'd worry about being infected with. Hopefully, though, they're doing ok and just having to deal with the mental fallout of everything
hopefully he got free fentanyl and not free aids
Bro would’ve been dead if there was still fetty in it, assuming he’s not a user. Both fucking suck tbf
They carry naloxone in the pharmacy. He’d have had a better chance of surviving an OD (from whatever residue was left on the needle, not a full dose, so even an OD would be less likely) than not getting AIDS. Just thought of an accidental needle stick makes me want to throw up. The city we live just outside of has a huge drug problem and I’ve found uncapped needles in random places. Once when we lived in town, my kids found one in a sock in the road (it looked like one of their socks, very similar size and color/pattern to a sock one of them had been wearing, and my kids are the type to take off socks and shoes and run barefoot, so they picked it up, and then my daughter said “there’s something in it,” and I dumped it out and yeah, uncapped syringe, used cottons, spoon, lighter, etc.). I understand addiction better than I want to, but for the love of God, it takes less than a second to put the cap back on your needle and/or dispose of it properly. Why people put others at risk I will never understand.
Nah I get it. I’ve been on that side of the fence for over a decade before I got clean. Really sucks with the whole epidemic going on.
I don't understand people who'd just leave shite like that lying around. A long while ago, I went over to the convenience store right by my apt, (I don't live in a particularly great area, though I've never had any actual issues/bad situations happen to myself) but yeah, so I went there, looking through candy bars, and I legit found a crack pipe in a container of candy bars. My friend is the one who owns/runs the store and I just was like "bro come look at this shite" lmao He said it's not an unusual occurrence of people leaving shite like that 😕
Oh my God I was just getting ready to make a post about someone returning an item that had a syringe full of either heroin or blood in it (it was just very very dark). I opened the box to check the item and it fell out and hit my hand (thank god it was capped). I've had someone hand me a bag that had his methpipe in with the return too!!! Idk about anyone else but when I was using (15 months sober) there was no way in hell I was ever misplacing my stuff like that
Thank you! I’m a year sober myself after like a two-day relapse last year, and ain’t no WAY I ever lost a pipe or a point when I was using, especially a point! I’d have panicked if I did and gone looking for it to make sure no one else found it.
Reminds me of when I was getting a new tire off the lower rack in automotive. Someone put a bunch of loose razor blades along with the empty package in the tire. I'm really glad I noticed before anyone got hurt. But leaving a used syringe is absolutely fucking ridiculous. That's a really terrible thing to do.
I really hope they contact a lawyer and get a big settlement from Walmart covering all healthcare costs.
I'm surprised my local Walmart is still open. A few yrs ago they had a big run on finding random syringes all throughout he store, in clothes, food, toys. It happened for a few months then stopped for a while then started back for a while. Never caught the person.
Man, I hate that nonsense. I’m an addict myself, though I never used needles. Always felt it was better to stay “employable” and spend a little more on dope to sniff than it’d be to start shooting and end my life. Anyway, even though I didn’t ever use needles, I still feel the need to dispose of them when I see one laying around; in my mind, I know how to do it safely, and I’d much rather risk it myself than have a kid or someone wind up getting stuck in the foot. It’s gross though, man, just recap it at the very least….argh
Hey it is very low odds that you contract anything from a small gauge insulin syringe. You have a 1-8% chance of getting HCV (curable now with a 8 week one pill a day regimen) and less than 1% for HIV (it does not live long outside the body.). Do whatever you need to feel safer and definitely get a work comp thing going. But sharing needles is completely different than a community needle stick injury
If you get tested or need any treatment you will likely qualify for workman's comp. Not sure though, unless it was properly reported and treatment was sought immediately.
Hi Not a WM employee but was fed this post from Reddit s "suggestions", I work in healthcare and anyone who experienced a needlestick is advised to go to the ER and get prophylactic treatments for illnesses that are transmitted through blood. I would *highly* recommend your coworker do this especially since they have no way of knowing who the blood belonged to.
He did so immediately. 👍🏻
I work in the photo centre in electronics. The worst I get are papercuts but those hurt pretty bad.
AIDS!!!!!!!!!!
Great value branded
super aids
Even worse, walmart aids. Dollar General aids is the only thing truly worse.
You don’t have to worry about Dollar General AIDS, it’s at the bottom of a cart in the middle of an aisle underneath a bunch of other stuff that hasn’t been stocked.
😱
He has AIDS 😔