Anaphylaxis, grade 3

Food Allergy Anaphylaxis is real. Us parents of allergy children are NOT over-reacting.

Some parents think that their own kids' rights are being revoked for not being able to bring Peanut Butter sandwiches to school. If putting another child's life in morbid danger is your child's right, I do have a problem with that.

Some kids DO react violently to foods they are allergic to. For C, his allergies are on the borderline of life-threatening. These reactions tend to get aggravated to higher grades of reactions with more exposure to the offending allergen. This picture was taken after he had stablized. Initially he complained of his throat hurting, his lips itching and finally he started crying and repetitively vomiting. It's VERY scary...It's real.

This reaction was to Sunflower seed butter, I've put his normal photos next to them to show you the difference. This is mild compared to some other people's reactions. For some, their entire body swells up because all their body fluids are suddenly leaking into the swellings and they die of aphyxia from the swelling in the lungs+brochial tube & or sudden blood pressure drop/cardiac arrest. It's a horrible way to go.

Kindergarten Prep aka Vaccinations

We debated over whether or not we should continue giving C his vaccinations. We ended up doing it, but I do regret it now. C took all 5 shots and a finger prick bravely, just a whimper. He was fine the first day.... then he started getting very itchy and rashy then next day. On the third day, he started out fine, then he ate his breakfast, then started throwing up! His lower lip started swelling and we just couldn't figure out what caused it! We took him to the ER, then realized he had stablized even as I filled in the sign-in papers. Good thing too, because the Hospital had no receptionist accepting the new forms, it was packed too. We just prayed for him and sang Praise songs and watched him in the car for about 20 mins, then drove home. Later that day, we went to see our Nutritionist, and he checked out all the foods that C had eaten that way with Muscle Testing to see if any of it was an allergen to him. All the foods were fine. Then the Dr. started testing heavy metals on him. He had dozens of viles with different metals in each vile. He tested them all and discovered it was Mercury poisening that caused the mess C was in. He told us that the vaccines contain small amounts of Mercury in them as preservatives! Can you believe that?!?! I've heard kids becoming Austistic from vaccines, and that makes sense now. I'm thankful to the Lord for C not reacting more severely. Never again am I going to have C go through that again! (He's due for another round of shots when he's 11, but I won't allow it)

After much thought and prayer, we decided to enroll C in public school. We've thought about keeping him in Private School and even Homeschooling, but in the end we decided that we as Christians need to be the salt of the earth. And if we shelter our children too much, then would be too shocked when they enter the real world once they reach High School or College. Yes, C will encounter experiences that won't be dealt with in private school or esp homeschool, but these are educational opportunities in our opinion as well. We will of course teach him Biblical priciples at home and pray that he will make the right choices in his daily decisions and selection of friends. He being an only child was one of the reasons we decided not to homeschool him, as he thrives off of companionship of other children.

Late Easter posting

This is C's school Easter Egg Hunt, listening to teacher for directions

waiting for his turn

Ooh! I found one!

Checking out his goodies

Latest Drawings

Here's a snail

a rabbit

a butterfly

and an alien and man with a space helmet on the moon (moon isn't really visible)