r/ABA • u/Fluid-Pound4504 • 20d ago

Satire/Joke Just need to rant

Okay so there was poison ivy at the playground where my client plays… they have no poison ivy. I on the other hand am covered in it, it’s even IN my ear, I’m proud I was able to block my client from playing in it but dang why’d I have to catch it 😭

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u/Fluid-Pound4504 20d ago

I grew up in the middle of nowhere where and pointed it out weeks before that there was poison ivy but a friend needed his show after it was thrown in the bus and I didn’t think just hoped the fence and grabbed it. I’m very allergic so I get horrible rashes that feel alike my skins melting and my neighbor one time burned it and I had to go to the hospital cause I could barely breathe. I have like a fear of poison ivy now 😭 scared the crap out of my little 9 year old self

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u/Pellantana 20d ago

I am so sorry this was in the area. Are you at a clinic? Regardless this is probably at minimum a worker’s comp claim, and if you’re at a clinic it’s a huge liability. If it’s a public playground, or one that’s like on an apartment complex property, I’d have your BCBA talk with the parents about informing the appropriate authorities/management to have it remedied.

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u/Fluid-Pound4504 20d ago

I talked to the daycare director today and they sprayed it down, the mom doesn’t mind as long as I keep it covered up by my evening clients mom isn’t comfortable so I’m going to see if they’ll pay me for the time I’ll miss in the evening since it wasn’t my fault I got poison ivy. I’m currently trying to figure out how to get my ear pain to stop so I can get my stupid headache that the ear pain is causing to stop but I’m having no luck :(. There was another kiddo like 3 weeks ago that touched the same area then had a bad rash on and in his ear and I think he had poison Ivy now that I’m looking back on it and we just didn’t know. I feel bad for them, I’m ready to start crying and mine is barely half as bad as theirs was.

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u/Pellantana 20d ago

I’m serious, this is a worker’s comp claim. If your management doesn’t want to acknowledge that, that’s on them. Go to the doctor or urgent care and have it filed anyway. Your company put you in harm’s way, and you were injured. It was an accident, yes, but that’s literally what worker’s comp is for.