Edit: 9-27
Sometimes no news is good news… not this time. We had an incident with Julie and some peanut contaminated food this week, I think it scared me more than it scared her. Julie has a slow onset with her allergy, so when she started reacting within 5-10 minutes, I was understandably worried. After visiting her doc on Friday, we found out that the diarrhea she had been having was directly related to the anaphilaxis. NOT fun. The Doc put her on steroids (more than she has ever had before) and then he dropped the bomb.
He told me that the next reaction she has will likely be catastrophic because she reacted so quickly this last time. He told me not to be at all afraid to use her EpiPen and to “jab and gab.” Meaning that he wants me to use the Epi and call 911 immediately, not to bother with the benadryl, unless it is handy. Scary stuff!
