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The year, 1998.    My daughter is one year's old.    I'm a first time mom of 37 with a bad case of laryngitis on the day of this segment. I was still reeling from having nearly lost my child to a danger I never realized existed until my child walked into the kitchen, pointed to her mouth, her eyes rolled back in her head, she fell to the floor and stopped breathing. This video is about the day (one of them) everything changed.

Okay, didn't write this myself, however a subject near and dear to my heart.   New state law will require schools to stock EpiPens for students with allergies Orange County schools are gearing up to supply the  epinephrine  auto-injectors used to treat anaphylaxis . BY DEEPA BHARATH  / STAFF WRITER  Published: Dec. 16, 2014 Updated: 7:47 p.m. Juliet Larsen was only 15 months old when she took one bite of peanut butter. In less than two minutes, her heart stopped beating. “We took her to the hospital,” Louise Larsen, her mother, said about that day in 1997. “We almost lost our daughter.” Louise Larsen has been one of the most vocal advocates on social media and through her blog,  parentsofkidswithaseverepeanutallergy.blogspot.com , to make EpiPens mandatory in public schools. The devices are essentially auto-injectors that use epinephrine to quickly treat anaphylaxis, a severe, whole-body allergic reaction to allergens such as food, drugs or insect bite

Reporter: Christine Peddie at christine@allergicliving.com  Senior editor, Gwen Smith, at gwen@ allergicliving.com.   If this article made a difference to you, do share your thoughts with these two from Allergic Living Magazine as they were the ones thoughtful enough to share our story with their readers!   -- Thank you!  -- Louise Larsen

Thank you Asami Photography for shooting me for Zooey Magazine . I am beyond excited to have my story featured in the next edition of Zooey about having a child with a life-threatening allergy to peanuts . Juliet and I had an amazing shoot today at our very humble abode from under, as you can see here, very blue skies.

I'm one of those rare folks who actually find it interesting to see how many others were either pro or con, and just why. For whatever it's worth, my posts are #22, #23, #72 & #113 For the record, I kept adding comments on the LAT site, but didn't see them. so, for some inexplicable reason started using another name to get see it that would work. Not quite sure why 'Enid Blatsby' was the best I felt I could do at the time. 1. Ah Joel Stein, you work so hard to make yourself so ignorant. I refuse to read you anymore, but I think I'll start urging the times to give you the axe. Submitted by: Shane 5:10 PM PST, January 9, 2009 2. love it...this article couldn't be truer. yes peanut allergies are bad and can be fatal but for god sakes its quite rare. I grew up not long ago in the 80's/90's when no one ever worried about what particular food they were allergic to and we all survived. To ban peanuts from school because a tiny percentage are allergic

So, I just came across an Op-Ed piece by Joel Stein in today's Los Angeles Times: Nut allergies -- a Yuppie invention span">Some kids really do have food allergies. But most just have bad reactions to their parents' mass hysteria. Oh, really ??? Well, below is my full response to Mr. Stein's Op-Ed piece, which I tried (unsuccessfully) posting on the LA Times website. Unfortunately, at the time I kept getting an error message stating that it was "too long." Of course, I did have to fight the image of Mr. Stein sitting on the other side of the computer screen shooting down angry responses like rubber ducks at the county fair. I even began "testing" the Los Angeles Times Comment Page by posting far shorter "messages" like: "Dear Mr. Stein, You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch." But even that came back with an error message. However, since none of these visualizations helped my blood pressure, I decided to

So, I won't go into all the things that made today so uniquely un-fun, but I will tell you that I freakin' found two dead birds in my backyard, one of which t he county just confirmed died from West Nile Virus. Say what?! As if that's not gross enough, but, hello? I found another little dead guy this weekend which I put in a cardboard box for the vector mafia to pick up only to discover: Like all good organized crime (fighters) they do NOT work weekends. So, I did what any good citizen should do: I posted this on the local news website in the area. Click on link to find out what you can do if you find a string of young, dead birds in your backyard. I don't meant to complain, but as if my family doesn't have enough weird health issues to stress about, but West Nile Virus in my backyard, too? Wow. I'm serious, today ended up being just plain a whole bunch of "badly timed personal news." Recent Bad News: Un-fun personal issue #1

Here's a strong piece about how deathly food allergies can be. I would like to see an american group carry on the wonderful awareness project here in our country. Sometimes it seems that Canada and the UK are light years ahead of America in warning people about the dangers of these deadly reactions. (I'm sure it has nothing to do with Peanuts being a major US export.)

to finish the statement in this blog title: ...is very nerve-wracking. My roots need touching up, to say the least, but my daughter is home, now, safe and sound. Thank God. I have some photos sent up to the school site from her teacher of her trip to the San Bernadinos last week in the snow. I have all sorts of thoughts, opinions and advice for others who may have a peanut allergic child going away for a week. But, in order to not repeat myself on various blogs, I'm going to add the link to all my postings on THIS particular subject here: http://www.peanutallergy.com/boards/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/253221/fpart/1