Yesterday began this years FAAW (Food Allergy Awareness Week). Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) presents this week to spread the word about food allergies, to increase awareness and spearhead better medical treatment and general understanding about food allergies. The FPIES Foundation has made their theme for this year’s FAAW “Awareness … Continue reading
Saturday afternoon, as I struggled to strap a screaming Zac into his carseat, I looked down to see that – oh my goodness! He got another tooth! Finally. This teething thing was getting old. So he now has 7 little teeth in his cute little head, and I’m sure the … Continue reading
Well. I know you all sit anxiously by your computers, just waiting for my latest post to arrive every Monday through Friday, so I know I’ve been letting you down for the last two weeks with my sporadic posting. <grin> There’s a good reason for my late Zac probiotic update … Continue reading
OK, seriously, y’all. I DO watch my son. I DO make Herculean efforts to keep him from eating stuff he’s not supposed to have. But Zac has an uncanny ability to locate and consume paper that I am just not fast enough to prevent. My dad has started calling him … Continue reading
Well, sort of. See, I’ve never been a terribly PC sort of person. I’m too blunt, too “tell it like it is”. It’s never my intention to hurt anyone; in fact, I view it as a sign of respect to not tip-toe around the truth with “delicate phrasing”. I … Continue reading
Sorry this is so late today; I didn’t get a chance to use the computer all weekend and today was wicked busy! SO…as I left it last week we were wondering about the corn in the probiotics and weren’t sure if Zac was handling them well or not. Monday I … Continue reading
I was woken up far too early by children who got far too little sleep. (6:45 a.m., in case you were wondering.) My normal “get up and go” routine took far too long as I stumbled around in a brain fog until I looked up at 9:00 a.m. to realize … Continue reading
Last week, I wrote an article about thriving as the parent of special needs. In it, I talked about “finding your tribe”; a group of people in the same situation as you that you can share, commiserate and celebrate with. I said they would make your life better, even if you never … Continue reading
Thursday night last week, I received a distressing phone call. My grandmother had been taken to the hospital, and my aunt was told that “it didn’t look good” and that she should “call the family in”. As it was late, the kids were asleep, and Darrel and I were both … Continue reading
On Monday I talked about Zac’s ongoing FPIES reactions, and how he’s had some “unidentifiable somethings that LOOK like they might be food, but really, I don’t know” in his diaper that were our only clue as to what might be causing his current acute/chronic reactions. And we really did … Continue reading
