Janessa Fyfe (Video)

A Lethbridge mother is sounding the alarm after she claims her son was stuck but a discarded needle while he was playing at a public park earlier this week.

Janessa Fyfe says she was at Sequoia Park with her husband and kids when her six-year-old son Jarom was hurt by a needle left behind in the grass.

The boy was apparently crawling along the ground, following a spider when he went into the bushes and was pricked by a syringe.

 

"We took him to a doctor and, sure enough, a little mark was there," Fyfe says.

The doctor ordered a series of blood tests on the boy and has started off with some vaccine treatment to combat a possible Hepatitis C infection. But it will be some time before any results come back.

Fyfe says it's an awful feeling, seeing what her son is going through while being forced to sit and wait for results.

Michael Franklin
CTV Calgary