allergic to everything

This time I'm talking about me.

I've already mentioned my poor boys each have their own food issues, well it seems they come by it honestly from their mama.

Growing up I wasn't allergic to anything. My brother was the one who couldn't have chocolate and dairy and my mom had her own list of things to avoid. But not me, nope I could have anything.

Flash forward to 2005/2006 and I react to something I ate at a restaurant. Turns out I developed a spinach allergy. What? Ya, spinach. Strange but whatever it was totally manageable.

A few years go by and Ty is born Nov 2013, shortly later I eat a chocolate with nuts and my tongue goes numb and has what appears to be hives.... And then it happens again a couple months later. So finally in June I have testing and guess who has developed a postpartum nut allergy.

Yup, this girl right here.

Tree nuts and questionably peanuts. But the spinach test looks clear this time. So I traded one for two? Not only traded but upgraded in the levels of nuisance and item popularity. Nuts are everywhere! For days I was starving because I was afraid to eat. Then I learned that Canadian law is that all foods must contain allergens in bold including anything that may have potentially been cross contained. Ok that makes it a bit easier and I start to get more comfortable.

Until last week when I took the boys to my moms. First day there we stopped at a farm and grabbed fresh strawberries, raspberries and snap peas and ate those along with hotdogs for lunch. And then we called an ambulance because I started reacting and this time in addition to my usual tongue welts I felt like my heart was racing, my stomach turning and like I was going to pass out. Luckily it resolved and no hospital trip was needed.

More testing will occur in 5 weeks to give whatever it was time to leave my system.

Tonight I'm covered in hives, they are on my left leg and knew and behind my elbow. A few are showing up on my right leg as well. They burn and itch like crazy.

What the hell is going on with me???

Seriously. How am I developing all these allergies. I'm getting more and more anxious by the day, being home all day with the kids is nerve wracking. What if I eat something and it's so bad I pass out. I'm terrified.

I took some reactine tonight and took some pictures. Aside from some candies I haven't eaten since dinner, there must be something I came in contact with that's causing this. Something in my own home....

 This is ridiculous.

summer fun

A few weeks ago I saw down and made my summer bucket list. I felt like last year we missed out on a lot of the things I wanted us to do. Time just seemed to fly.

So this year I am ready.

We have been doing a great job already at doing things. The zoo and aquarium may not happen since they are a fair distance away but I would really love to go so fingers crossed we make it happen!

So far we have been to the splash pad numerous times, berry picking and to the beach. Mav went berry picking last year and had a blast so I figured this year would be tons of fun and foolishly thought we would pick two full baskets. Well "I" picked two baskets and Mav probably ate a whole other baskets worth while I picked. Luckily they don't weigh you on your way in.                                        

                                               

The beach was tons of fun. I had no idea what to expect, I had a vision of it being a total disaster and waste of time but Mav loved it. He played in the sand and actually swam in the water. We have a puddle jumper for him and he is comfortable enough with it to try swimming on his own. Fully supervised of course. We packed a little lite lunch and then headed home after for naps. Everyone was exhausted.

  

                                              

Canada Day was also fun filled. We didn't do anything on the list but we did spent the first half of the day swimming in a family member's pool. Mav even jumped off the diving board! Only once because he quickly realized it meant his head going underwater and he is not ok with that. He did swim on his own again and jump off the side lots. We had tons of fun swimming with all the cousins, the festivities were over at nap time and spent the rest of the day/eve relaxing at home. 

                                     

This week should be filled with lots of fun adventures as well. I'm taking the boys to grandma's house for a few nights, we will be visiting friends and hopefully spending lots of time outside. 

In only a few short months I will be heading back to work, this summer is flying by already!