Caroline Flynn’s summer season of worrying sick is over.
Her 4-year-old boy doesn’t have HIV or hepatitis after being pricked within the foot by a discarded, soiled hypodermic needle, she advised the Herald Wednesday night.
“The blood tests came back negative today. That’s a relief,” she stated. “And that’s after he wasn’t able to tolerate the anti-HIV preventative medicine.”
She even despatched alongside a photograph of the place her son was pricked just under his massive toe on his left foot. He nonetheless should go one ultimate check in October, however for now, she will calm down.
“It took a big weight off my shoulders. Getting those negative tests back felt good,” the Southie mother stated. “He’s more cautious now and tells kids, ‘Keep your shoes on.’ But now we can talk about him going to school in September.”
He likes his Nike sneakers and backpack, as any child would.
Her boy was pricked by the tossed needle on July 11 in a South Boston park close to their residence for a party, because the Herald first reported. Since then, she has confronted the relentless spillover from the Mass and Cass opioid-addled wasteland.
“We were sitting down at McDonald’s and he looked out the window and said, ‘Look Mom, zombies!’”
The boy, whose title is being withheld by the Herald, watched as drug addicts pushed out into the neighborhoods stumbled alongside — with some capturing up in plain sight. Others push rusty wheelchairs, previous procuring carts, or may be seen driving on metropolis rental bikes.
The dope sellers are often those with backpacks peddling a bit sooner, Mass and Cass observers have advised the Herald.
Caroline Flynn, her 1-year-old cooing in her arms as she spoke, stated, “Something needs to be done.”
She recommended arresting anybody who shoots up in public, if simply to get them assist.
“To openly welcome this is too much. I’ve seen a guy shooting up right into his leg. It’s everywhere.”
South Boston state Sen. Nick Collins, who has been combating to dam Boston from being the habit go-to vacation spot, stated youngsters are actually being harmed.
“This is another example of the collateral damage caused by the ongoing crisis at Mass and Cass,” he stated. “Nobody should have to worry about stepping on a needle in a public park. But with over 15,000 overdoses in Boston since 2022, we clearly need to reform our public health policies and protocols on civil interventions as well as discharge policy.”
Collins added we “owe it to the boy” and others to behave.
Because the Herald has reported, the opioid epidemic, fueled by the artificial killer fentanyl, is actually altering the panorama of Boston. Companies are compelled to erect safety gates whereas owners pay for extra safety.
The town’s Sharp Group scours the sidewalks and parks trying to find discarded needles, however the litter from a lifetime of medicine simply retains coming.
Requires “needle cleanup” fill town’s 311 alert app. “Whole bunch” on Nashua Road, an intersection “full of drug addicts openly shooting heroin” at Lenox and Reed, a “needle near a community garden,” needles in Roxbury, odor of pot, human feces, and in all caps: “DISTURBED, DISGUSTED, DISAPPOINTED” by human waste in Dorchester.
“A bio-hazard,” the 311 submit provides, “can’t say you care about your citizens.”
That 311 submit stays “open” as of Wednesday night time.
A name to town’s press workplace on discarded needles went unanswered by press time.
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