E's Allergy Testing

E had allergy testing done recently, just to see if there were any changes.

His peanut allergy remains at the highest level (Level VI), and cashews, also a Level VI, are off the chart!  Pistachios are a Level VI, too.  The other tree nuts came way down, so we've scheduled an almond challenge for the end of the month.  I'm not going to get my hopes up, but I will be happy if he passes it.  When he was first diagnosed, I told Nick that if there was just one nut that he wasn't allergic to, I hoped it was almonds.  No such luck.  But that may change!

The lab didn't do the fish/shellfish testing, so we don't know where that stands.  We're just going to wait, rather than putting him through another test.  Anyone living within a hundred mile radius of the lab may have heard him while he was being tested.  It wasn't pretty...

Unfortunately, we're still trying to get a 504 Plan in effect at school.  We had a meeting at the beginning of last month, but the plan they sent us to sign was so far from what we had in mind, that I actually did the research and wrote a 504 Plan myself!  What they sent us was basically the minutes from our meeting, with a brief accommodations section at the end.

I think that the school personnel find us to be over the top, but we take this very seriously, as we should.  They eat peanuts and tree nuts in E's classroom, and we have to make sure that every precaution is in place so that he doesn't get exposed to it.

I'm all for peanut-free classrooms, although his school won't even entertain that.  What concerns me is that they can remove peanuts, but E could still die from a cashew!  There are so many kids who have life-threatening allergies to dairy, eggs, and other foods, that it's next to impossible to remove all allergenic foods from the schools.

So, we just do what we can to keep our little guy safe...and pray for a cure!

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