Provide Information to Keep Food Allergic Children Safe in Class
“Just tell me what I can bring and the brands and I’m happy to oblige.” That is what my closest Mom friends tell me about play dates and their kids sharing a class with Ella. It’s also been told to me that knowing a variety of specific safe snacks is helpful to keep the guess [...]
Health Challenges Teach Valuable Lessons
Elizabeth at One Spot Allergy website posted an article on a blogger not understanding the benefit of peanut free accommodations at Major League Stadiums. I responded on her blog, as did several other fans. Others have posted comments directly to the article. A few, including myself, have compared allergy disability to accommodations for other disabilities, [...]
Gaining Confidence
When is it that you’re supposed to train your food allergic child to use an Epi-pen? Like when they send you home from the hospital with your first child, there’s no guidebook to tell you this. FAAN contacted me about a month ago to see if I’d be willing to come in with Ella to [...]
Want Change? Start a Blog: School Board Presentation
“Let Us Help You, Help Us” As promised, our final presentation to Loudoun County Schools. A bit quiet on the blogging front for the last week…basic summer colds in both kids turned to asthma in Ella, requiring nebulizer inhaler treatments every few hours. Add the countdown to school, countless forms to fill out, Doctors calls, [...]
Power Is In Numbers Food Allergy Parents!
Way to go Illinois! It’s Law. Loudoun Allergy Network has made significant progress on a County level, but is this the year we could approach the State of Virginia? If Virginia considers State wide policy, then it’s feasible with the support groups and our numbers in the DC Metro area, other nearby States would follow [...]
Indecent Exposure Continues in Loudoun!
Gasp! First my pantry, now look what’s come out of the closet?! In three weeks this has to be our well oiled launch pad! The husband has this M.O. where if he has to work in his office, he has to clean something first. Something that used to really annoy me, but not overlooking the [...]
Food Allergy School Accommodations You Can Ask For Now!
Considering a ADA Section 504 plan (per Dr. Wood’s site and 504idea.org ) for your child? It’s a big decision. There’s a lot of paperwork, committee meetings that must be done to obtain eligibility and it takes approximately 60days to finalize. It’s a personal decision too, but don’t try to make it alone, involve your [...]
Open Letter to Joel Stein (psst: just say no to mangos too!)
Dear Mr. Stein, I’m sorry to hear about your son’s diagnosis of food allergies to nuts and seeds. And you’ve been warned: the delicious fruit, mango, is a 1st cousin to cashews and pistachios. Bummer. I’m sorry you had to experience an severe reaction that sounds like it ran it’s multiple organ ugly course on [...]
Want Change? Start a Blog 2.0
(Don’t read this until you’ve read this first!) LAN is extremely lucky to have such a proactive school system where they already had established a Health, Safety and Wellness Committee and the oversight of these topics were not lumped onto one Board member position. It’s incredible that they came to us and we did not [...]
Want Change? Start a blog.
Catchy name it is not, but the niche and location turned out to be just what we needed. It brought us Johns Stevens, Loudoun School Board Chairman. Loudoun Resident. Good Guy. Father. Hero. (follow on Twitter @loudounschools) This is about how the parents of Loudoun Allergy Network worked tirelessly over the last two years to [...]
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