Before I get started with today’s post, I have a small update on Zac.
When I shared the wonderful success of the egg trial, I gave a great big shout-out to the fact that we haven’t had any accidental ingestions through the whole first week.
I spoke too soon.
Yesterday afternoon Zac managed to grab a piece of bacon. Not HIS bacon, but Jed’s bacon.
(Actually, aside from the fact that accidental ingestions are horrible, it was kind of cute: I asked Jed where the bacon was and he replied “In Zac’s tummy!” Oy vey…)
Since I didn’t see it happen with my own eyes and was taking the word of my three year old on the matter, I secretly hoped he was confused (I hate to say lying, you know?) and that Zac didn’t actually eat any of the untested bacon.
Five hours later, he had his first bout of uncontrollable screaming, and by bedtime he had a lovely red diaper rash.
Thank goodness we’d already decided to pull the egg yesterday for the break! He’ll have a few days for his tummy to settle down before we restart the egg trial. Hopefully he only ate a small piece, and this will be the extent of his reaction to it.
I hate FPIES.
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On to today’s post!
If you hate FPIES, too, and would like to help FPIES families and/or FPIES charities but find that funds are a tad low for charitable donations in your budget, have I got great news for you!
I recently learned of a way to help send money to your favorite charity that costs you NOTHING.
It’s all because of Amazon.com.
Just shop the way you normally shop on Amazon.com, but first, go to AmazonSmile.
AmazonSmile is a wonderful charitable program where you simply shop for your normal Amazon goodies, but by going through the program link you will be telling Amazon to “Please, give .5% of my purchase total to my favorite charity!”
How cool is that?
No muss, no fuss, no cost to you – all you have to do is make sure to select a charity one time and from then on always begin your shopping via AmazonSmile.
Plus, you get to share your generosity on Facebook and Twitter after every qualifying purchase, making you look really awesome and bringing some name recognition to your favorite charity, too.
This could NOT be easier!
Personally, I’m supporting the FPIES Foundation, but feel free to select whatever charity you would like, of course! (As long as it’s an FPIES charity, right?)
Read more about the program here.
There’s not much else to say about this. If you shop on Amazon regularly (and who doesn’t?), you could easily send your favorite charity some moolah to help them accomplish their goals.
And doesn’t that take the sting out of clicking “buy now”?
