Ok, so I'm not afraid to travel with my child as such, that makes me sound like a wuss. I'm afraid to travel with my allergic child. I'm not a precious mammy with her precious child. I'm a mammy who every time she leaves the house with her child has the antihistimine, and the epipens and the spare prescription & the phone for the ambulance etc etc etc- and that's even just to go to the shop .
I recently got invited on a holiday with a mother & her 3 kids. My partner was invited too, but workwise he cant at the minute. All I could think was that there was no way I could face that by myself. I know I wouldnt be 'by myself' but there's only so much support you can ask off someone who is not the parent of a child with food allergies. We havnt even travelled much here in Ireland with him yet (he's not 3 yet), but the thoughts of a foreign country without my partner when he doesnt fully understand his allergies yet just terrifies me.
Hell, I dont even understand his allergies yet, we cant get a test for insect stings / bites etc & where I live is 30 mins from a hospital, never mind abroad where god only knows how far away one would be.
I dread (in the future) being the person who has to get the airline to make the food announcement before the flight. Or worse still, be refused a flight home due to risk of reaction like I saw on the net before.
Sorry for waffling . Maybe someone has been through this?
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Nessie100 · 22/05/2015 17:15
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