Parents fight for diabetic kids’ rights

December 8, 2008

Her diabetic son wasn’t allowed to prick his finger in school to test his blood sugar, and some days the nurse wasn’t available, so Kari Christiansen would drive there every two hours to make sure he didn’t suffer a serious reaction.

Christiansen had to shuttle the then-kindergartner’s blood-testing device back and forth from Westchester Primary School. It was banned from the bus because administrators considered the tiny lancet a weapon.

When she learned that Carter, nearly unconscious, had fallen in the school hallway, Christiansen and her husband took steps to end their “nightmare.” They got a lawyer to fight for his rights.

“They refused to train anybody in the building about diabetes,” Christiansen said, recalling that officials were worried about spilled blood. “Somebody could come upon him unconscious, and nobody would know what to do.”

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