Show Grandma, new classroom teacher, soccer coach, or scout leader how to use an Epi-Pen®. Use those expired pens and demonstrate (or better yet, let someone else try) how to discharge the unit in a lemon, orange or grapefruit. After carefully inserting the Epi-Pen®- needle end first- into it's storage tube, drop it off at your allergist's or family doctor's office for proper disposal.
Do a little gratitude dance that the Epi-Pen® didn't have to be used to treat an allergic reaction and pat yourself on the back for teaching someone else to use it.
4 comments:
This is exactly what we have planned! I have plans to train our new teacher with our expired epi pens and have advised she can invite any other teacher in the building to come watch. I have three, and am willing to share. Especially because the real thing is so different from the trainer!
That's a great idea! We've never had to use ours yet, so it would probably be a good idea for my husband and I to practice how to use them. Thanks!
The real thing is different from the trainer. Also, in your mind, you know the trainer is just that. It feels different holding the real thing and using it. I remember the first time being surprised by how long the needle is!
Great advice, when they expire we practice on an orange...
Linda
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