Comments on: on top of everything else… http://kdiddy.org/2009/03/01/on-top-of-everything-else/ well-established blogger Fri, 18 May 2012 16:15:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ali http://kdiddy.org/2009/03/01/on-top-of-everything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-1798 ali Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:46:44 +0000 http://kdiddy.org/?p=1178#comment-1798 I am reading this well after the fact but thought i'd throw a potentially helpful nugget of info your way. my 4 year-old is allergic to both tree nuts and shellfish. although she's never had even a vaguely anaphylactic reaction, we carry the dreaded epi-pen as well. she gets hives, itchy mouth/throat and almost immediate vomiting. gross and sad. BUT anyway, our allergist told me to carry benedryl strips with me and they are magic. they are like little breath strips and are the fastest way to get meds into their systems. my little one is literally better w/in 10 minutes of taking one. i keep them in my purse, my car, school, home, my folks, etc. giant eagle used to carry them but more recently i had the pharmacy order me about ten packs. I am reading this well after the fact but thought i’d throw a potentially helpful nugget of info your way. my 4 year-old is allergic to both tree nuts and shellfish. although she’s never had even a vaguely anaphylactic reaction, we carry the dreaded epi-pen as well. she gets hives, itchy mouth/throat and almost immediate vomiting. gross and sad. BUT anyway, our allergist told me to carry benedryl strips with me and they are magic. they are like little breath strips and are the fastest way to get meds into their systems. my little one is literally better w/in 10 minutes of taking one. i keep them in my purse, my car, school, home, my folks, etc. giant eagle used to carry them but more recently i had the pharmacy order me about ten packs.

]]> By: Jade Babylon http://kdiddy.org/2009/03/01/on-top-of-everything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-1784 Jade Babylon Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:08:10 +0000 http://kdiddy.org/?p=1178#comment-1784 I am having the same problem with grad school...it is like there is a dial for education, and someone turned it to ten and walked away to go to the store. I won a full tuition scholarship, which on one hand, is effing awesome, because I can now take out loans to pay our bills instead of school (ugh, typing that hurt) but on the other, I have three classes a quarter. By the end of each term, I want to rip my eyeballs from my skull, have contracted some lame illness from stress killing immune system, and I know that outside of my teaching shift with the kids, I am a red-eyed grumpmuffin that is no fun anymore. Luckily my husband is still working on his undergrad, because he is much happier and more fun to be around, but when he complains about having to write 5 page papers or how "easy it was to get a B" I want to pour cold water on his head while he sleeps. My view on grad school is thus: it is a dark dark hole that you get thrown in for a few years, and the light at the end of the tunnel is the completed thesis. Its a Darwinian test of some sort I am sure, to protect the job interests of all people with masters degrees. Or, perhaps the people who design it are just sadists. Either way, its pretty dark in here. I am having the same problem with grad school…it is like there is a dial for education, and someone turned it to ten and walked away to go to the store. I won a full tuition scholarship, which on one hand, is effing awesome, because I can now take out loans to pay our bills instead of school (ugh, typing that hurt) but on the other, I have three classes a quarter. By the end of each term, I want to rip my eyeballs from my skull, have contracted some lame illness from stress killing immune system, and I know that outside of my teaching shift with the kids, I am a red-eyed grumpmuffin that is no fun anymore. Luckily my husband is still working on his undergrad, because he is much happier and more fun to be around, but when he complains about having to write 5 page papers or how “easy it was to get a B” I want to pour cold water on his head while he sleeps.

My view on grad school is thus: it is a dark dark hole that you get thrown in for a few years, and the light at the end of the tunnel is the completed thesis. Its a Darwinian test of some sort I am sure, to protect the job interests of all people with masters degrees. Or, perhaps the people who design it are just sadists. Either way, its pretty dark in here.

]]> By: kdiddy http://kdiddy.org/2009/03/01/on-top-of-everything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-1783 kdiddy Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:26:10 +0000 http://kdiddy.org/?p=1178#comment-1783 <a href="#comment-1776" rel="nofollow">@Kizz</a>, thanks, lady! @Kizz, thanks, lady!

]]> By: Kim S. http://kdiddy.org/2009/03/01/on-top-of-everything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-1778 Kim S. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:28:43 +0000 http://kdiddy.org/?p=1178#comment-1778 Any allergic episode is scary! We just found out a month ago that our 21-month-old twins are allergic to tree nuts when we had to call 911 and one of them almost stopped breathing. It was awful. I'm glad your son is okay. Sending you positive thoughts and deep breaths. Any allergic episode is scary! We just found out a month ago that our 21-month-old twins are allergic to tree nuts when we had to call 911 and one of them almost stopped breathing. It was awful.

I’m glad your son is okay. Sending you positive thoughts and deep breaths.

]]> By: Rachel http://kdiddy.org/2009/03/01/on-top-of-everything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-1777 Rachel Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:12:34 +0000 http://kdiddy.org/?p=1178#comment-1777 I'm glad the kid's ok! I worked with a Pulmonary attending doc who had a tree nut allergy... the other attending's wife had made cookies with nuts, and he somehow misheard her, so when the Tree Nut Allergy Doc asked if they were ok, he said yeah. We nearly had to intubate him in the ICU, he was so quickly unable to breathe, we threw him in a bed and luckily were able to give him stat respiratory treatments, etc. The other doc with the nut cookies, this little older Indian fella, was nearly in tears, saying, "I almost killed my friend! I almost killed my friend!!" His wife came in and bitched him out for giving his coworker the cookies, she was like, "I TOLD you: DON'T give them to Mud!!" Luckily he was fine, because he was an ICU doc IN the ICU... I can't imagine the fear of having a child with an allergy! I hope swollen lips are all he ever gets! I’m glad the kid’s ok!

I worked with a Pulmonary attending doc who had a tree nut allergy… the other attending’s wife had made cookies with nuts, and he somehow misheard her, so when the Tree Nut Allergy Doc asked if they were ok, he said yeah.

We nearly had to intubate him in the ICU, he was so quickly unable to breathe, we threw him in a bed and luckily were able to give him stat respiratory treatments, etc. The other doc with the nut cookies, this little older Indian fella, was nearly in tears, saying, “I almost killed my friend! I almost killed my friend!!” His wife came in and bitched him out for giving his coworker the cookies, she was like, “I TOLD you: DON’T give them to Mud!!”

Luckily he was fine, because he was an ICU doc IN the ICU… I can’t imagine the fear of having a child with an allergy! I hope swollen lips are all he ever gets!

]]> By: Kizz http://kdiddy.org/2009/03/01/on-top-of-everything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-1776 Kizz Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:32:22 +0000 http://kdiddy.org/?p=1178#comment-1776 Glad he's OK. Thinking stress-free thoughts for you. Glad he’s OK. Thinking stress-free thoughts for you.

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