I have created a thread to discuss school-related dinners specifically, as I think it's a topic that will be very useful for middle school and high schoolers with food allergies and worthy of separate conversation.  I've put it in the Teens board.

School-related Dinners

This is the numero uno reason why we'd have LOVED to have a Twinject rx for DD.

Single device, two doses.  Genius.

Yep, muscle memory. One thing on my to do list as the boys get older is attending a community course for extended first aid or EMT basic to get their mind prepped that it's about readiness including their allergies. The best laid plains, eh.

FWIW, it is not so easy for all girls because girls carry purses.  Some girls do not, or prefer not to do so, and are athletes and the purses do not go to the track, or the soccer field, much like McC's ds and his situation with his speech attire and no extra items.  This has been a hurdle for dd.  she has started to carry a small cross body vera purse simple because she must to carry her epis.  I need to check now:  Where is that at track practice and meets?  I presume it is on the ground somewhere.  I need to make sure she tells an adult and some friends where it is.  She cannot wear it or carry it with tiny track shorts a sports bra and Tshirt while she runs a 100m or 200m.  She has been very good with it, but I feel a sudden panic and need to know many more details.  Her life has become suddenly so Independent of me.  7th grade has changed life a lot for us. 

I am trying to allow dd to be more in charge of her epis and allergies than the school or even me, because I find it makes her better at remembering and doing well with it.  It is better than when I would sometimes carry for her, or sometimes ask for her, etc...  And I think she knows her allergies better than any teacher or school personnel at this point.  My bigger concern with school is that they respond to or recognize her allergies appropriately, if she has a reaction.

You can be a teen without being disrespectful.  My favorite teens were the ones who were disgusted by how others treated their parents rudely.

You can experience growing pains without being a total brat about it, kwim?

She only has to carry the two epis - I will trade her in a heartbeat.  I carry 4-6 (the kids have juniors, I obviously don't), inhaler with spacer, Benadryl melts and spoons, Tums and whatever else various meds are needed.  I need a purse with rollers at this point...

If you ever find the roller purse...let me know.

I had to use a hiking style waist pack for my emergency kit at summer camp. (Yes, I know that it's a fanny pack.  But it is at least a nice one.  3-5 epis, depending on what I was doing for the day.  Albuterol and Atrovent puffers.  Battery operated neb, albuterol, atrovent, mucomyst and lidocaine for the neb.  Syringes for drawing up mucomyst if necessary.  Benadryl plus a med syringe full of cough syrup.  Emergency allergy free snack just in case.

The thing must have weighed 10 pounds.

There is a horribly tragic story of a preschooler in I think New Zealand or maybe Australia where the first epi didn't work and the teacher injected the 2nd into her thumb.  I started carrying 3 after reading that one.