Yes I have been a total slacker on this blog.
Life is like that.
I still have posts to write about our dining experiences at Walt Disney World (mostly positive) and I'll get to those.
It's been crazy around here with the holidays.
Also, we think Olivia had an allergic reaction to food a few weeks ago.
Long story short: Olivia used to love the regular Krispy Kreme doughnuts (the pre-boxed doughnuts you can buy at the grocery story). The label read as if they were safe. I checked ingredients and labels online and it all seemed OK. Until about a month ago. Liv came home from ballet class feeling totally fine, ate one doughnut, and then went to bed a little bit later.
She woke up a couple hours later and had thrown up IN HER SLEEP. That's right. She threw up in her sleep. I still can't wrap my brain around that.
When she came in our room she was flushed and shaking and said she felt "weird" and dizzy. We cleaned her up, had her brush her teeth, and then she went back to bed. She was fine the next day but we kept her home from school because she was afraid of being sick again.
We have no proof that it was the doughnuts but in digging a little deeper I did discover that while Krispy Kreme says they don't knowingly add peanuts to their products they can't guarantee that the products are peanut and tree nut free because they can't guarantee that their suppliers are a peanut/tree nut free supplier and cross contact may occur.
And so...we've eliminated Krispy Kreme doughnuts from the house.
I think the episode scared Liv and she's been a bit more unsure about food lately. It makes me sad to see her stressed out about food.
Here's to an allergy safe 2016.
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