Sez the mean girl is out in force tonight
Genuine question from me - are pistachios nuts? I’m thinking that was an ok comment about not taking that concoction with pistachios to school because of nut allergies?
As an anaphylaxis mum… Pistachios are actually in the cashew and almond category as ‘seeds’. Or drupes.
Peanuts aren’t true nuts either! They’re legumes - they grow in the ground. Also seeds.
All are classified as nuts for the purpose of highly dangerous and deadly anaphylaxis. Which is deadly in a physical, immune response, but also leads to something else that is deadly. Bullying. Depression. Crippling anxiety.
Suicide.
Anaphylaxis is not a joke. It’s
bleeping terrifying and either as the young adult or parent or both, it is a horrible fear and torturous to constantly second guess if something is about to potentially turn your body into a self imploding killing machine or not. Every single time you leave the house you think of it. Every time you buy anything to eat aside from fresh produce and water you think of it.
Now imagine sending your kid to school knowing that somebody doesn’t care if another kid has that life threatening allergy. That person’s kid had a Nutella sandwich for lunch and didn’t wash their sticky hands. They grab a pencil from the shared container and put it back. The kid with anaphylaxis grabs it and gets it on his hands. He gets an itchy nose and there’s traces of his DEADLY allergen on the opening to his airways. He starts itching, eventually growing into a full blown anaphylaxis episode needing epinephrine and hospitalisation. Little Timmy who had the Nutella sandwich witnesses the whole thing and knows that he had the Nutella sandwich but is too scared to say anything because he knows nuts are banned but mummy sends him with a Nutella sandwich anyway. Kids get traumatised, parents lose sleep and trust and faith in other people to keep their anaphylactic kid safe. It also has a chance of making the kids next allergic reaction even more severe. The teacher becomes a nervous wreck too.
Don’t even get me started on the
bleeping class birthday cakes and parties. The exclusion is heart breaking.
My kid is 15. He isn’t a prick but he only got invited to 3 birthday parties in primary school. It still gets him down now when his siblings get party invites.
There is SO MUCH to the life of allergy families that people don’t understand. I wish people would take the time to hear our stories and they wouldn’t be so quick to make jokes.
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Polite of you. I’ve got other terms I’d use
why share that reply though? Just exposing what a nasty and petty person you are.
riiiigghhhhtttt
