Tag:food allergies
Cake Season
It’s cake season at our house. For most normal families, September means back to school, the beginning of fall, winding down from summer. At my house, it means: CAKES! I always said that I would never be “that mom”—that one that made birthday cakes and Halloween costumes. I learned a valuable lesson there. Don’t say …
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My Son is Allergic to ALMOST Everything
When Yoshi was a bitty baby, everyone agreed that he was allergic to everything. It was easy. (Ha! Believe me.) As he got older the doctors stopped agreeing on anything and everything was difficult. The battles between the who, what, where, and why are for another day. Eventually, we ended up at Johns Hopkins University Hospital …
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My Son is Allergic to Everything
Food allergies don’t normally count as special needs. I understand this. But Yoshi was an especially tricky customer so I always lump this part of our lives in the with the rest. And even though we knew that it all started as allergies, even though we fought like mad to fit it all into that …
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How Very Wrong She Was
We ran into each other at swim lessons. I hadn’t seen her in a while, maybe a couple of years. We used to be quite close, but life gets in the way sometimes and people drift apart. We had a lot to catch up on. Her youngest, her son, was just diagnosed with autism and …
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