My life has felt a little bit like the weather lately. On August 25th, I suffered a severe allergic attack at work that was a borderline anaphylactic attack and would have been if I didn't think along with the hives and swelling face that I was having an asthma attack and used my inhaler. It took several shots to get all the swelling down.
The prognosis: Peanut Allergy.
I have since been to the allergist and had all the testing to find out that it is not only peanuts and peanut oil that it is also tree nuts(pecans, walnuts, almonds, etc). Needless to say it has limited my diet and I now carry an extra accessory at all times, the Epi-Pen.
My hope thru being very careful is that this will not happen again, fingers and toes crossed, becaue the attack that brought all of this on scared me witless.
In addition to all of that my grandfather was in the hospital for about a week and a half in August for pnuemonia as well as his disease which Progressive Nuclear Disorder, a degenerative brain disease. Luckily he came home and continued physical therapy at home and has done well with the exception of 2 falls. Well he had a really good day yesterday but in the middle of the night he went to get up but was too weak. My grandmother called an ambulance because in the past when he's gotten like this he has generally fallen, well my dad tore his hamstring Sunday playing flag football and she knew he wouldn't be able to come over and help get him up. The EMT's got there and helped him to the bathroom and took his tempature and he had one so as a precaution they took him on to Skyline. At this point we hope it's just dehydration but they are running more test to rule on pneumonia since he recently had it. I ask that you please keep him in your prayers. We take it day by day with him and are really not ready to put him in a nursing home just yet.
Jordan
1 comment:
I didn't know it was nuts! Girl, that really limits the diet. I hope you are doing well.
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