Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on

[CMdeux]

Yes.

The amount of time and energy that consumes is kind of mind-boggling for those that don't deal with FA's.

[ajasfolks2]

Yup!  And the back up plan should not be  "I've epinephrine with me so maybe I'll take this chance . . . "  (Hi HO!  Silver bullet & I should be ok?!)

So hard to get this through to kids / teens / young adults / complacent adults . . . and uneducated food allergy folks.

[Janelle205]

Yup!  And the back up plan should not be  "I've epinephrine with me so maybe I'll take this chance . . . "  (Hi HO!  Silver bullet & I should be ok?!)

Exactly.  Unfortunately, the end stage back up plan for me is that I just won't eat anything, which lots of people have a real problem with for some reason.


Ooh.  Idea.  I'm going to tell my doctor that I'm overweight to give myself a food allergy cushion for when I can't find safe food.  Totally legit, right?

[CMdeux]

Uhhhhh.... sure.      Ooooooohhhhhh... so that was my plan.  Good to know.  LOL!

[LinksEtc]

Ugh, I'm sick of sickness.

Younger one just got over a stomach bug that was going through her class.

Now older one is wiped out with some nasty probably virus that's been going through her class. 

What do you want to bet they next swap ... I'm thinking of inc younger dd's adthma meds preemptively ... this is not going to be pretty.

Next will come the note from school warning me that dd has a lot of absences.

& since there is only 1 of me, older relatives who need my help are not too happy.

What can you do?

[starlight]

I'm sitting in LAX, it's lunchtime. Gate guru app said there was a McDonald's in this terminal, so I was just going to grab some mcnuggets for lunch. Except the terminal is under construction and every other (unsafe) eatery is still up and running EXCEPT McDonald's. So my lunch got to be a king siE Hershey's. My flight is 4 hours. So pissed. So hungry. Ugh.

[Macabre]

Oh ugh.

You should totally make that TWO Hershey's.

[CMdeux]

And a vodka tonic.    

  Here's to a shorter-than-expected flight.

[GoingNuts]

Ugh Starlight, that is miserable.  Hope you can fall asleep to make the time go faster. And help you ignore the tummy rumbles.

[starlight]

Got lucky, we left a few minutes early and are arriving 20 minutes early. And I'm landing at an airport with multiple places to grab real food. 

[spacecanada]

Where I work is usually very allergy-aware...

But today is the Christmas staff meeting and potluck and they just brought nearly eighty boxes of Reeses peanut butter cups and Hershey's almond chocolates into my classroom (the general meeting place for big events like this) to hand out all staff members.   

Needless to say, I'm not going in that room for the rest of the day and will have no part in cleaning it up (which is normally my responsibility.)  I'm sitting in my office (adjoining the classroom) and not in a very happy place mentally.  Potlucks are tough enough, yet alone this.  (And to know there's a box of nutty chocolates with my name on it only makes it worse.) 

[CMdeux]

Wow.  That is bad.  I'm sorry.

[spacecanada]

Wow.  That is bad.  I'm sorry.

I should have posted that in Vent and Delete... oops.

[SilverLining]

Wow.  That is bad.  I'm sorry.

I should have posted that in Vent and Delete... oops.

It belongs where you want it.  It IS about living with allergies....and pig headed people. [spoiler]did I type that out loud?[/spoiler]

[Macabre]

Oh wow.  Just wow. That is horrid.