Allergic to birthdays?!

[ophelias_heart]

So I went to church yesterday and mawychick brought me breakfast that her husband had made. I had an egg and cheese biscuit and a biscuit with pumpkin butter. My throat started itching and my eyes started watering and I said "Mary did the pumpkin butter have sunflower seed oil, because I might be having anaphylaxis." So we called her husband and he sent a picture of the ingredient list. No sunflower seed oil, which means I am deathly allergic to something else also. We think it might be the nutmeg, which would make the most sense, since it is used with cinnamon a lot and I know I'm not allergic to cinnamon. And today I woke up with spots all over me. I don't know if it's a delayed secondary reaction or what. Patrick said nature was trying to kill me. I try to avoid the "all natural" things because they use sunflower seed oil rather than soybean oil. I actually had a mild allergic reaction just walking into the food co-op one time.
Other than that I had a good birthday. My dad and step-mom and the kids came and took us to lunch. The kids started school and they were telling me about that. Bless Jessica's heart she was so popular up in Jersey, she's having a hard time adjusting. Nathanial on the other hand has already made a hand full of friends and they only went two days last week.

Comments

[dragonheart]

oh wow! that's scary. Glad it didn't escalate into something that needed a trip to the hospital. Food allergies can be very serious!

I hope your spots go away soon!

[ophelias_heart]

I'm glad too! It might not be so bad if I owned make-up so I could at least cover the spots on my face. If they stick around, I'll post a picture.

[carolinecrane]

Next time (which there hopefully won't be, but just in case) just text me and I'll bring my makeup to work and fix you up when you get here. Then we'll keep the Epipens close and cross our fingers you aren't allergic to makeup!

[proseac]

Scary stuff! Are you going to see an allergist? Better to find out what it is in a controlled environment, so you'll know what to avoid.

[alidiabin]

Oh noes. Glad it didn't end up with a trip to A&E.

[mawychick.livejournal.com]

And cupcakes! I wasn't Only trying to kill you;)

[ophelias-heart.livejournal.com]

Yes and cupycakes. The two I've eaten have been wonderful, thanks! And now I know to avoid nutmeg. Which sucks cause I really liked that pumpkin butter, but it sure didn't like me.

[mawychick.livejournal.com]

I'll make you some without!

[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

Apple butter is my favvvvvorite. It probably has nutmeg too, though. (This is why I never feed you anything that tastes remotely 'natural' or 'healthy'. Nature really is trying to kill you!)

Poor Jessica. It's so much easier for boys to fit in at that age.

[wonderlandchick.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! I'm sorry nature is being a butthead to you. Glad your birthday was good apart from the nutmeg of death. I've been thinking about you lately since DragonCon is coming up. I know you'll be home, but it just makes me think of you!