food allergies, and more life stuff (not much related to CF)

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Hi,

Carob's a good idea!!! Don't know why I didn't think of it, since I eat it

a lot myself (and it's not even so expensive anymore). I bet Kailin would

love a bunch of carob covered peanuts to keep at school for special snack

times! And I know what you mean about reading with a magnifying glass. I

always check for whey and caisin, and of course the obvious stuff like milk

or cream, but last week some lactic acid slipped by me in the soy sauce when

we had a stir fry. Never even thought to check a SOY SAUCE label for milk

products! Kailin was curled up on the couch for an hour with abdominal pain

after dinner. I felt like a real jerk when I read the soy sauce label and

realized I'd " poisoned " her. I've also accidentally given her Italian

dressing with cheese in it in the past, as well as breadcrumbs with

parmesean (to coat her baked chicken), and Ken's given her waffles with whey

in them. We've got a good non-dairy cookbook with no-milk pancake, waffle,

and french toast recipies that I'm going to try soon! (She loves that

stuff, and has really missed it). Thank goodness for all the soy and rice

based ice creams they have out now, not to mention almond cheese (which she

likes better than soy cheese).

I went to college in upstate NY, by the way, so I know what winters are like

there. (Pretty much like they are here in Madison, WI.) Let's all curl up

under a nice warm blankie and come out in the spring!!!

MICHELLE A., weren't you concerned a while ago that one of your daughters

might have food allergies? Did you ever figure out what wasn't agreeing

with her? I wish it hadn't taken us 6 years to figure out Kailin's allergic

to milk products. Oh well, live 'n learn.... How'w Levi doing, by the way?

Hopefully sailing past all the winter colds!

Gotta add another non-CF-related note here. Kailin was sharpening a pencil

tonight, and afterwards she was sort of bouncing the eraser against the

kitchen wall. She tripped on a pile of boots which was drying on the " mud

mat " , and plunged the point of the pencil completely into the palm of her

right hand. I saw the entire thing happen, and I was the one to pull the

pencil out of her hand. I've never heard her shriek like that before, even

when she broke her wrist last summer. Amidst the chaos I put in a call to

acute care, and verified that pencils are now graphite, NOT lead, so there's

no poisoning risk. As for the small sliver left under the skin, the nurse

said to soak it every day, put antibiotic ointment on it, and it should work

its way out. Kailin cried for over an hour tonight. Ken turned really

pale, and tried to make her feel better by telling her stories about

disgusting things that happened to him and his brother as kids, which of

course made her more hysterical. Then he picked up her hand and squeezed

around the puncture site to try to ease the sliver out, which sent her into

a blind fury. She wouldn't let him near her for a long time after that, and

he retreated to go be queezy up in the bedroom (he doesn't do childhood

injuries too well, that tends to be my department-- he does the vomit, which

I can't stand cleanig up!). I've gotta tell you, though, for some reason

even I was grossed out by this little stabbing. UCK!!!

bye,

, mom of Meagan wcf and asthma, and Kailin (allergy kid!) w. asthma

and a REALLY sore hand