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yendiElayna and her friend are in the kitchen talking, and Elayna's friend recounts the misreported story about the peanut-allergic girl in Quebec who suffocated when her boyfriend kissed her after eating a PB&J sandwich.
Elayna's response: "That's the problem with having a boyfriend. You die!"
Elayna's response: "That's the problem with having a boyfriend. You die!"
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Date: 2007-05-01 10:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-01 10:54 pm (UTC)So, it's not all *that* urban legendy. :P
And that is, indeed, one of the primary problems with having a boyfriend.
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Date: 2007-05-02 01:09 am (UTC)I kind of have a problem with the term "urban legend" there - as it wasn't - it was a mis-reported case.
Urban legends by definition are always "friend of a friend" or "know someone who knows this guy who" - not major news agencies reporting something incorrectly.
That said - as the mom of a daughter with a DEADLY peanut allergy - and sister to a brother who has survived many an ER trip due to the same - in that particular case, it's more that it didn't happen to her, not that it couldn't happen.
I say this, because I know for a fact that a kiss from someone who had eaten peanut butter HAS in fact, sent my older brother to the ER after use of an epi-pen - and that he could've died from it.
Granted, not 9 hour later, but within an hour from the time she ingested it.
Would you please do me a personal favor and edit that phrase?
Rather than "urban legend" use something like "misreported story" - because honestly? I face enough of an uphill battle trying to get people to understand that yes, Kira's peanut allergy is severe enough that having even trace amounts ingested can kill her without having people think that just because it turned out *not* to be the case in the story you're talking about, it means it can't happen.
It can.
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Date: 2007-05-02 01:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-02 01:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-02 04:47 am (UTC)Because if you hit post, and then wish to edit in say, the first couple of minutes, it's usually due to an error in your thinking or writing.
But the ability to edit past that leaves open the whole horror of debate-threads wherein someone says X, someone replies not-X, and the original poster edits first comment to Y and posts "I didn't say X - I said Y!"
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Date: 2007-05-02 12:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-02 01:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-02 04:54 am (UTC)I'm probably a touch oversensitive about it right now - because when we were touring preschools last week, I had one "director" who the following conversation took place with:
Me: what's your nut/peanut policy - because my daughter has a deadly allergy to peanuts
Her: oh, we don't really have a policy - but we seldom have peanut butter here - and if we did, we just wouldn't give it to her
Me: um, no - her allergy is a bit more severe than that...
Her: [interrupting] Oh well it won't really be an issue, we almost never have peanut butter here - and we'd take her picture and put it up in the kitchen and if the other kids had peanut butter, we just wouldn't give it to her...
Me: Let me put this bluntly - if another child has peanut butter and my daughter *touches* that child - she will end up in the ER at the least, possibly dead at the worst. It isn't just a matter of not giving it to her.
Her: Oh well... like I said, we almost never have it here - so I'm sure she'd be fine.
At which point I gave up and we walked out - given that it seemed pointless to explain to her that eating a chocolate chip cookie a friend gave her at school a couple of weeks ago - which must've had trace amounts of peanuts (read the back of a Nestle Tollhouse package nowadays) gave her hives on her chest, back and thighs that required round the clock Benadryl, steroidal cream, oatmeal baths, and kept her home for 2 days and out of school until the next Monday.
It's seriously terrifying. And yet, public awareness of the reality of the allergy is seriously lacking. :(
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Date: 2007-05-02 12:56 pm (UTC)We've only had very minor worries (Elayna's allergic to milk, but it's not an anaphylactic reaction), but any place that doesn't take this stuff seriously and is supposed to be in the child care business isn't going to stay in the business for very long.
I still remember learning about peanut allergies when someone died after eating chili at an NYC restaurant when I was growing up; they'd simply never assumed that chili could have peanut butter in it. Nowadays, at least most processed foods are good about putting warnings on their labels, and a lot of restaurants do it as well.
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Date: 2007-05-02 03:02 pm (UTC)Hence the sudden upsurge in "processed on machinery that processes" warnings and the like.
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Date: 2007-05-02 06:31 am (UTC)Or, apparantly, date. :)
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Date: 2007-05-02 12:57 pm (UTC)Ha! Love that song.
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