In honor of Food Allergy Awareness Week, I want to share with you some of the things I’ve learned over the past three and a half years of dealing with my son’s life-threatening food allergy. If I could get people to understand just these things, my life would be easier, my son would be
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Earlier this week, Jen blogged about her apprehension toward her son starting kindergarten—a whole eighteen months from now—due to his severe allergy to peanuts, which can trigger a life-threatening condition known as anaphylaxis. For the uninitiated, an anaphylactic reaction is a true emergency that requires immediate action to save a child’s life, due to its
“I find it kind of ironic that on the news they are discussing if teachers should be armed with guns at school to potentially save lives, yet we can’t get them armed with EpiPens to save lives.” This comment appeared in one of my food allergy (FA) support groups last night. It took me back
This article popped up in my Facebook newsfeed the other day. You should read it, but I’ll summarize it by explaining that it’s by a mother of a 13-year-old girl on the Autism spectrum, who relates the story of how, despite her daughter’s varied and meaningful educational successes, the New York State Department of Education
