Well, hey there! It’s been a minute, but life has happened the last couple of months. However, you are about to be blessed with a few rapid-fire blog posts. Why? Because Food Allergy Awareness Week is upon us. Here’s a few links if you want to read a little bit more about it:
https://www.foodallergy.org/take-action/food-allergy-awareness-week
https://www.kidswithfoodallergies.org/page/food-allergy-awareness-week-month.aspx
So, from May 12-May 18, 2019 I am going to put out multiple posts in hopes to contribute to the awareness that is desperately needed. And since you have a couple of weeks before I hit you all up, this would be a great time to catch up on my story on how I entered the food allergy world along with the other posts I’ve written. And I want to remind my lovely readers of a few things…
I am not an expert. I am a mom of two kids with severe peanut allergies. I’ve seen an anaphylactic reaction. It was terrifying. And I live with the reality that food has the power to kill my children. So, nope, not an expert on paper or by education or profession, but I live this life every day.
The purpose of my blog is not to be purely informational. As in, I’m not posting literature from peer reviewed articles or flooding my posts with statistics. I might throw a random stat or number in there once in a while, but that is not the purpose here.
So, what is the purpose?
When looking up information about food allergies what I found were a combination treatment studies, cooking with food allergies, traveling with food allergies, food allergy safety and statistics. A bunch of absolutely wonderful and necessary information, but what I really had a hard time finding was the daily navigation of everyday life. And not presented in a purely factual way.
I want to put real life situations out there to try and provide support to those going through it and hopefully help invoke an “aha moment” to those who don’t quite know how to relate. The concept of food having such a power is so foreign and difficult to grasp for most people so I am doing my best to try and get people to get it. And I will likely use sarcasm and craziness along the way.
So welcome, if you are new to my page and thanks for sticking around if you’ve been here from the start.
Peanut Free Me by Kim Farley 