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Author Topic: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on  (Read 393584 times)

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Offline CMdeux

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #885 on: December 09, 2014, 03:16:14 PM »
Yes.

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

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Offline ajasfolks2

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #886 on: December 09, 2014, 04:10:07 PM »
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.

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #887 on: December 09, 2014, 04:13:24 PM »
Quote from: ajasfolks2 on December 09, 2014, 04:10:07 PM
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?
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #888 on: December 09, 2014, 05:12:31 PM »
Uhhhhh.... sure.   ;D   Ooooooohhhhhh... so that was my plan.  Good to know.  LOL!
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #889 on: December 14, 2014, 01:33:22 PM »
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?

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #890 on: December 14, 2014, 02:06:38 PM »
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.
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #891 on: December 14, 2014, 02:39:36 PM »
Oh ugh.

You should totally make that TWO Hershey's.

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #892 on: December 14, 2014, 02:43:42 PM »
And a vodka tonic.   :misspeak: 

 :grouphug:  Here's to a shorter-than-expected flight.
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #893 on: December 14, 2014, 05:41:32 PM »
Ugh Starlight, that is miserable.  Hope you can fall asleep to make the time go faster. And help you ignore the tummy rumbles.
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #894 on: December 14, 2014, 06:06:52 PM »
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.  :happydance:
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #895 on: December 17, 2014, 01:18:40 PM »
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.)  :pout:
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #896 on: December 17, 2014, 02:02:43 PM »
Wow.  That is bad.  I'm sorry.

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #897 on: December 17, 2014, 02:16:22 PM »
Quote from: CMdeux on December 17, 2014, 02:02:43 PM
Wow.  That is bad.  I'm sorry.
I should have posted that in Vent and Delete... oops.
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #898 on: December 17, 2014, 04:45:32 PM »
Quote from: spacecanada on December 17, 2014, 02:16:22 PM
Quote from: CMdeux on December 17, 2014, 02:02:43 PM
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.
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #899 on: December 17, 2014, 04:54:28 PM »
Oh wow.  Just wow. That is horrid.  :console:
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