Hi, I"m new here, my daughter is 5 and has a severe peanut allergy. I am so much in awe reading all the posts. I finally don't feel alone. No one knows unfairness like a mother who has a kid with a food allergy. I wonder if anyone will understand where we are coming from and why we feel and think the way we do about this nasty allergy. I am so paranoid of all this I am in the classroom everyday volunteering. I carry my epi pens with me at all times and go eat lunch with her also. Today an aid worker was eating a snicker bar in the classroom and had it layed on the table, after she left I washed the table down real good. I mentioned it to the teacher that this aid worker had a candy bar that had peanuts in it so I am hoping she says something to this person. Ok I know I have rattled on here but I have to complain about the cafateria. I had asked one day if I could read some cookie lables and this was in between classes so they were not busy and I did ask, anyway the main lady came back there and very rudley said if I wanted to go through her stuff that I needed to go get the priciple and that they were busy and had 500 other kids to worry about. The lady that was helping me said after the main lady left that she didnt think she was busy. Anyway when I was leaving I tried to apologize and she said again about the 500 other kids and still very rudely she says besides you have already looked at the cookie lables. I said I didn't remember if I had or not and she said very rudley again, "Well think" and I said I was thinking, I was thinking of my daugters life by wanting to read the lables. Come to find out later my husband and I hadn't read the cookie lables was why I hadn't remembered. Anyway this is some of the things my daughter and I have had to deal with. Thanks for letting me vent!
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Lynn
[This message has been edited by lynn1999_2000 (edited November 22, 2002).]
