Monday, August 3rd was a Peanut Allergy Friendly day with the Colorado Rockies! We attended a handful of Rockies games when Zax was still a babe/toddler in arms, and we had no trouble at those games. Even after his peanut allergy was diagnosed, I don’t remember having issues with the few Rockies games we attended. Read More …
21 lousy milligrams. That’s all the egg protein it took to induce an allergic reaction in my eldest son. It wasn’t anaphylactic at that level and was controlled with antihistamines, but I can’t help but shake the feeling that this is very allergic. 21 milligrams. That’s 3/1000ths of an egg, folks! Not many people know Read More …
This will be short today. As I mentioned Wednesday, Zax was hospitalized for the flu. He’s much better now, and has his normal energy level back except for bedtime. I caught the flu myself–even though everyone entering his room was required to wear masks and gloves, I was already doomed (after laying in bed with Read More …
I had half of what I thought was a really great post written for you today, and then all my plans were thrown out the window. Hubby and I had hoped to do some exciting stuff for our business too, but that also was thrown a curveball. Instead of doing the things we’d hoped, we Read More …
Did you know that the flu vaccine is incubated in chicken eggs? We learned this when Zax was 10 months old. Even before getting to the allergist, our pediatrician told us he would need to get his flu shot directly from an allergist, if at all. The allergist confirmed this, and that first year we Read More …