Hi,
I wanted to bring to the attention of
this forum accidental needlestick injuries
and share my story with you all.
As a general practitioner, I am exposed to
needlesticks several times per day and in
my five years of practicing medicine, have
never once had an accident or recieved an
injury from a needlestick, that is until
approximately four months ago.
I was walking through a street on my day
off and decided to sit down and have a
rest. Without looking I sat down on a
bench and placed my
hand on the seat, feeling something sharp
enter my hand. Worried, I looked under
the seat to find that someone had somehow
placed a needle stick filled with blood,
so that the tip of the needle was pointing
up from under the seat.
Even with all the medical knowledge I
posses it was still an extremely difficult
and worrying time waiting for the blood
test results to return to my office.
Thankfully, I am clear of any form of
hepatits and of hiv.
I have posted this message as one of
encouragement for those of you out there
who suspect or are worried that you may
have contracted hiv or a form of
hepatitis. Don't hesitate in seeing
your doctor or if you are uncomfortable
with visitng your regular doctor see
another one.
I am unsure of the procedures in america,
but here in australia the only people who
know you are having a blood test for hiv
are the doctor who ordered the blood test
and the nurse who takes your blood.
Once the blood is taken you are assigned
an identification number. The results
are returned to the doctor's office with
an identification number. The doctor
then matches up that identification number
with the patient who had the examination.
This therfore assures anonymity.
Thanks for listening.
Dr. Thomas blake
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thomasb
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 13 Location: ,
Posted: 11-28-03 22:19pm
I apologise for the errors in my
punctuation. I did type up the message
above correctly but something happened
between the time I pressed submit and it
appearing on this forum.
Dr. Thomas blake
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Jaydensmommy
Advanced Support Team
Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 1705 Location: Wisconsin
Posted: 02-16-04 01:30am
Ive heard of ppl doing that to movie
theater seats in the us. Very very
scary. I get scared everytime I have to
go to a movie. How did things turn
out???
~sara~
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Fubajuba
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 29
Posted: 02-22-04 01:32am
I think that's an urban legend thing that
some kids made up, but aid's is still
scary. I'm not sure how it works in the
us. Anyone know?
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2ferano
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 3717
Posted: 02-22-04 06:10am
People really do the movie theatre seat
thing, but people also sleep around
unprotected knowing full well they are
infected. People are sick, be careful!
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Fubajuba
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 29
Posted: 02-22-04 07:12am
Yeah. I'd be more careful about who I
choose to sleep with rather than the seat
in the movie theater thing. I usually
check the seat first anyway, since movie
theaters are pretty disgusting in the
first place.
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2ferano
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 3717
Posted: 02-23-04 00:03am
Oh I agree totally! It is much more
likely (much more likey) to contract it
from sleeping with someone infected. But
you do have to be careful no matter what
you do.
