Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on

[spacecanada]

"You cannot have any broccoli until you finish your chocolate cake."

My PTSD therapy homework involves eating chocolate cake (because chocolate cake caused my anaphylactic reaction that left me with PTSD).  I don't like chocolate cake, never have, and eating it now causes me great anxiety (which should get less the more I expose myself to safe chocolate cake), so I end up begging for broccoli, corn on the cob, apples, anything else.  My husband keeps telling me the above.  *sigh*  When did broccoli become a bargaining chip?

[CMdeux]

I can just SO identify with that logic, spacecanada...  I'm really not laughing at you-- but the situation itself is a bit surreal, isn't it?

best wishes and happy broccoli.   You can do it!!

[PurpleCat]

Funny.....last night I made a chocolate cake.  My kids ate it for dessert and I ate broccoli - cause I love it!


It's not easy after anaphylaxis.  Keep mending.

[spacecanada]

I can just SO identify with that logic, spacecanada...  I'm really not laughing at you-- but the situation itself is a bit surreal, isn't it?

That's why I had to laugh (after the fact) and post it here, because only this community would understand the irony.  Maybe tonight I'll have cake as an appetiser, followed by tomato salad, and baby carrots or applesauce for dessert.  LOL 

[CMdeux]

 

makes sense to me-- er... only then we get into the whole "life is short, eat dessert first" argument, which.... uh-- _{yeah-- maybe not the right sentiment there.} 

Let's hope that life is VERY VERY long instead, and that dessert has nothing to do with it either way ever again.   

I'm really, really proud of you, and so impressed that you've been willing to share your journey of recovery from PTSD.   

[guess]

This morning I had a training on the roll out of Narcan/naloxone and the challenges for local law enforcement agencies have faced in implementing the opioid overdose rescue med are incredibly similar to the challenges of mindsets and acceptance of epinephrine administration.  In fact, the analogy was made to "EpiPen for anaphylactic shock".  The technical assistance for Narcan is solid, when I take a closer look at the toolkit for it I'll mentally run through for applicability.

[ajasfolks2]

The teal pumpkin still sits on the porch.

It makes me smile every time I spy it.

I hope the Teal pumpkin Project becomes a permanent fixture in Halloween "celebrations" . . .

[LinksEtc]

An update - I let dd go on all the "scary" roller coasters she wanted, and she did great ... she went on things older dd & dh wouldn't go on ... she wanted to go on several more than once  .  We pretreated (for asthma) ... even with a small virus, she was fine.   

I think it won't be long before she is ready for loops.

[PurpleCat]

Sounds like she had a blast!  Great for her!

[CMdeux]

The teal pumpkin still sits on the porch.

It makes me smile every time I spy it.

I hope the Teal pumpkin Project becomes a permanent fixture in Halloween "celebrations" . . .

I only just put mine away.   It made me smile, too.   

[SilverLining]

An update - I let dd go on all the "scary" roller coasters she wanted, and she did great ... she went on things older dd & dh wouldn't go on ... she wanted to go on several more than once  .  We pretreated (for asthma) ... even with a small virus, she was fine.   

I think it won't be long before she is ready for loops.

I am so glad she enjoyed herself. 

Not allergy related, but I remember taking my niece on her first roller coasters.  We took her to Wonderland, and her mom had a list of what she could and could not do, but when she started in on it, I just held up my hand and said "I won't let her go on anything I won't let my own kids go on. She said fine.  Walking in to the park my niece, very calmly and quietly said "I guess you talked to my mom about what I'm allowed on?" And I told her what I had said to her mom. She quietly said to my boys "so are we allowed on anything fun?" As she looked hopefully toward to big-kid area of the park. My sons snickered and said "if we are tall enough we are allowed on".  I took pictures for her mom. Lol.  Come to think of it...this might be why brother and his wife don't like me. <shrug>

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Anyway, my own living with thing fir today.


I get recall noticed from the government.  Specifically I signed up for peanut and sesame recalls.  Today I got one...sesame paste contaminated with peanut.  Ya!  Not such a big concern to me.

Made me laugh.  It's what DH and I call "a double whammy".

[LinksEtc]

Oh my SL ... well, it sounds like your niece had fun 

Funny about the recall story.

I'm having a completely lazy, rocking chair type of day ...

[PurpleCat]

Yesterday I was grocery shopping and I went to buy Sunbutter.  In it's place on the shelf.......Sesame Cranberry Peanut Butter!!!!!  Seriously, I'm not making this up!  I've never heard of that before, but what a deadly combination for my kiddo!  Sesame and Peanut??  Her two worst allergens.

Apparently they are out of Sunbutter!

[Macabre]

A big bottle of Death, as we would say in our family, lol.

[CMdeux]

MMmmm... almost as good as the Thai lunch buffet for DD and I...