Tuesday February 22, 2005
Today sort of sucks for me. Between my cramps and my sinuses I can’t seem to get anything done. It took most of the day to get my pain under control, except for the headache, but now I am light headed. I really can not wait for Zach to get home today, I am barely coping at this point.
Interesting situation tonight. Zane was rummaging through the fridge, and since I am not feeling well I was slow to get up. He comes around the corner holding half an onion. Oh crap! Now I have to reach through my addled brain to figure out how I am going to get that away from him without touching the damn thing. I remembered that I had stashed some surgical-type gloves up in the cabinet for emergencies. He sees the gloves and wants them, so I am trying to get away from him so he doesn’t touch me with his little onion hands while putting on those awful stretchy gloves with my light headed brain. That had to have been a sight! I finally did get the onion away from him, wrap it up, and then had to grab him with my forearms under his armpits, because now I have onion on the gloves and don’t want to transfer the juice to him, which can get transferred back to me. I finally get him cleaned off and disposed of the gloves, then had to find another pair to give to him to keep him from digging in the trash. Such drama. No blisters, and he didn’t eat any so I don’t have to worry about kisses and such. I am definitely going to need to talk to Zach about storing his onions a little more securely.
are you allergic to onions? I must say, that is a very funny scene to picture LOL
Yeah, I am VERY allergic to onions. Touching them will cause blisters, eating them will cause anything from ‘flu-like’ symptoms (and lots of bathroom time) to an asthma attack, depending on if I am dealing with hayfever at the time (makes it worse) and how much it is cooked. (the more raw, the more problems). Very inconveinent allergy if you work in food service. (which I did a lot of)
It does help keep me from eating processed foods though. Take a look at the back of soup cans, meal-in-a-box (like hamburger helper), or breading of frozen foods, salad dressings, & sauces and you will discover that almost everything has onions in it. It means a lot of ‘from scratch’ cooking.
wow, I don’t think I’ve ever known anyone with that food allergy – fascinating.
Poor Jennifer Z, what an un-fun allergy! Not that most of them are a hoot, but you’re right onions are in A LOT of processed foods. Do you have a problem at restaurants as well?
yeah, restaurants can be interesting too.