When our child was diagnosed with food allergies, we were absorbed into a new way of life, learning the folkways of keeping our baby safe. We labeled every jar and can in our pantry and fridge so that anyone who visited could see at a glance what was safe (green) or unsafe (red). Like Curtis Sittenfeld, who […]
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How my food-allergy community “flips the clinic”
May 10-16, 2015, is Food Allergy Awareness Week. I am grateful to the women (and a few men) who help me care for my child with food allergies. I’ve never met most of them in person, but they are there for me, 24×7, answering questions and sharing resources.
Thank you, Sean Parker
I have a new essay up on Medium: Thank you, Sean Parker. I tell why I’m so grateful to him for his gift to food-allergy research and l share a little bit about why I don’t read comments on food-allergy stories. Also: please check out more cartoons by Tiffany Glass Ferreira — she is awesome:
The Teal Pumpkin Project
I live (mostly) by Michael Pollan’s advice to “eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.” But Halloween is an exception. We live in a Sesame Street-like townhouse neighborhood in Washington, DC, so my kids can easily hit 100 houses while trick-or-treating. The candy haul is epic. My food-allergic child has […]
Food Allergy 101: hold the blah-blah-blah
UPDATE: FARE has created an excellent 15-minute online class: How to Save a Life: Recognizing and Responding to Anaphylaxis Original post: In a fit of housecleaning last spring, I recycled all my old food-allergy training files since they were 5+ years old. I figured it wouldn’t be very hard to find a good one-pager on […]
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Food Allergy Awareness Week is May 11-17. I decided to honor it by writing my first public post about being a food-allergy mom. Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, aka @SeattleMamaDoc, is generously hosting it on her blog, where I hope it will reach many, many people. I’d love to hear what you think — about being […]
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