Shayla wants to do her part whenever she can to help teach other kids about food allergies. Here is a (rediculously cute) video of her explaining what symptoms feel like, in her own words. ...
On her seventh birthday we celebrate her, and give ourselves a tiny pat on the back for keeping her mostly safe for all these years. I always go back to this blog post and re-read my words and feelings from the night we felt the...
I remember vividly, some of our first conversations while starting to think about our trip. Our first and primary concern, had nothing to do with what we do with our house while we were gone. It didn't even revolve around how to we run our...
On the night after Thanksgiving, we typically attend the annual tree lighting in downtown Middletown. This year was no exception, but as anyone with an allergy kid knows, every social event is a ticking time bomb. The beginning parts of the evening went well. Lots...
We brought her back to the allergist in October for full followup. We introduced the questions about her asthma and he gave us a full nebulizer kit to keep on hand. At this time, and the main purpose for this appointment was a full workup...
It was now the Summer of 2012 and I had booked a series of shoots in Cape Cod for a group of different families. We thought about making a mini vacation out of the time we needed to be there, but wait; what will we...
As time progressed, we learned quickly if Shayla was around dairy, she would break out in hives. We didn't know then but now just sitting in a Starbucks for more than 5 minutes makes her turn red, and begins to wheeze. So the days of...
At her 15 month pediatric appointment I explained to the doctor about her allergy diagnosis and asked if I could take her off the formula yet. The doctor responded with “Yes, of course; as long as you give her yogurt and stuff like that to...
Finally the allergist appointment had come and we might finally get some answers. They skin tested our little girl for dairy and soy, to help determine what formula she could tolerate. We learned that day she had a dairy and soy allergy and they suggested...
At Shayla's 6 month appointment; I again brought her symptoms up to the doctor and they said well maybe an allergist could give us some more answers. [caption id="attachment_593" align="alignnone" width="1800"] Hurricane Irene Portrait shoot[/caption] Well that was progress anyway. I immediately made an appointment with the...