Hidden ingredients can be painful. Literally. Joe
and I took the kids to a local Mexican restaurant for a late lunch. I asked the waitress if there was any
flour or sugars in the things we were ordering. She assured me there wasn’t. We ordered the corn tortilla chips with house made guacamole
for an appetizer. The kids and Joe
got various meat tacos with corn shells.
I ordered the steak with home made refried beans. I didn’t touch the rice. After eating the chips and guacamole I
started to feel a slight tinge in my chest. Nothing that bad, but it was there. We finished our meals and headed to
Petco to make a return. When I got
in the car, the pain was a lot more noticeable. I told Joe I think I’m having a food allergy reaction. I’m allergic to eggs and carry an
epipen. My body doesn’t digest egg
yolks. I can eat Egg Beaters, but
a regular egg sends me to the hospital with massive chest pain. The pain is a 10 on the pain scale. It literally feels like a 200 lb person
is standing on my chest and stabbing me through the chest with a giant serrated
knife. I haven’t had a reaction in
quite a few years. I’m usually
really careful about it and avoid things that I know have whole egg like fried
rice, etc….
I’m driving to Petco, which is only 2 minutes away from the
restaurant and the pain was getting a lot worse. I went into Petco to use the bathroom as Molly did her
return. The pain only grew
exponentially and I knew right then and there that this was the egg allergy
rearing it’s ugly head. I couldn’t
imagine what the heck had egg in it.
By the time I got back to the car, I knew I needed help asap. Luckily there was a walk-in clinic in
the same plaza. I’m terrified of
giving myself a shot. We got to
the clinic and they got me to a room immediately. I gave them my epipen and the nurse tried injecting me 3
times! The thing didn’t
work!!!! They gave me a shot in
the arm instead. Within minutes my
chest pain started to subside.
Within an hour we were on our way home.
But, here’s the scary thing. The clinic called the restaurant to ask them about all the
ingredients in my food and there was no egg in anything! What the freak?! I can’t explain it. It’s the only known food allergy I
have. They gave me the number to
the local allergist. I’ll be
calling him Tuesday to get in for new testing. The doctor at the clinic said you can develop a food allergy
at any point. The one common
ingredient was onions and they were in the guacamole, the beans and the steak.
The other scary thing is the epipen didn’t work because the
nurse didn’t take the safety out!
What the heck??????? Next
time, I’ll just stab myself. You’d
think a trained nurse would know to take the safety off! Seriously!
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No workout this morning. It’s my rest day J
8 a.m. breakfast:
1 cara cara orange, 4 oz. steak, 2 egg beaters cooked with a tab of
butter, organic sugar free salsa. 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
12 p.m. snack:
apple
1:15 p.m. snack:
banana
****We took the kids to see the Sponge Bob movie. Worst MOVIE ever! I wanted to walk out half way through
it. None of us got anything to
eat. It was rather torturous to
smell all that buttery movie popcorn.
Joe was about to gnaw on his hand.
Movie popcorn is definitely off limits for all of us because of 1.) the
fat content, and 2.) the corn itself.
3.) money (we were going out to lunch and I budget every penny and
spending additional money on food wasn’t in the budget. especially for
overpriced popcorn.)
3:30 p.m.
Lunch: Mexican
restaurant: corn tortilla chips,
guacamole, ½ cup refried beans, ½ of a flank steak. I gave the other half to Joe because I was full. Water to drink
Not hungry tonight.
The epinephrine killed my appetite and I’m absolutely exhausted.
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