Okay, DD is a few days into eating at her college cafeteria. She met with the dining director for a final double-check on how they are going to feed her safely, during her first day on campus.
She is to email the dining director every day with a time that she'll be eating her meals.
I am so impressed with this dining director --- I have met her and she's called me by phone a few times.
She was asked for a list of foods that she does not like: peas and melon (cantaloupe)
And so far, she's had meals that have been safe. Chicken, chicken, and more chicken. And apparently the kitchen staff think that melon includes squash. She said, yesterday the dining manager came rushing over to her table, WITH TWO PARAMEDICS (not sure what she meant by paramedics), to pull the squash away from her. He said, "Don't eat that! It's squash! I forgot you cannot have squash!"
She looked at him and said, "Is there butter on the squash?!"
"No --- you cannot have melon. A squash is a melon."
She explained to him that squash is NOT a melon and no, she's not allergic to squash. She doesn't eat MELON, like cantaloupe, because of an OAS reaction she gets when she eats it.
Also, during another meal, a girl in the same cafeteria DID have an anaphylactic reaction. The ambulance came "so quickly, Mom! You'll be glad to know that!" and hauled her away on a cart. I said, did she have an epipen? She didn't know. She found out after the fact that it was an anaphylactic reaction. She wonders if this girl had not told the kitchen staff of her allergy . . . I'm wondering what happened, too.
Anyway, Dd's meals so far have been safe. She's just bored of the constant chicken already. LOL
eta: DD mentioned paramedics, but I think they were health service personnel or something that way.