…when I “see” food, I run! Hehe, I’m allergic to shellfish. Lobsters, crabs, shrimp and prawns are off-limits to me. Yes, I know, I know, I’m missing out. I can eat other types of seafood, however, but not crustaceans. So this evening when the whole family went to Market Broiler, I ordered myself a plate of garlic-laced linguini and clams. I passed up my usual order of Arizona tilapia to try something different.
Here’s a T616-captured image which I sent to my Mac via e-mail. It costs .40¢ to send so I’ll be glad when my bluetooth adapter for my iBook arrives. Oh yeah, check out Market Broiler’s daytime webcam!
I have the same problem, I’m allergic to seafood! That is why I carry medicine with me everywhere I go! Ha!
After the last time I was sent to the ER because of an allergy attack (yes, ’tis true!), I was prescribed medicine as well. I lost that prescription. Oh the joy of eating crab eludes me!
Keren, glad your site’s back up!
I’m also allergic to crabs, shrimp, etc. (but my post got eaten so I don’t know if you ever saw it, Daniel).
I think I blogged about the last time I had a dose of those things. Needed to get epinephrine and steroid shots just to prevent my airway from closing up.
Yay Keren!
Hey, there’re many more of us crustacean-intolerant folk out there! So Noelle, epinephrine is what it’s called, eh. I better ask my doctor for a prescription. Thanks!
Epinephrine was used to dilate my blood vessels. It’s the same hormone the body produces in the “fight-or-flight” response (adrenaline). Only to be used in the most dire of circumstances, like in an allergy attack that hits the respiratory system, or in an extreme asthma attack, like that Culkin kid in Signs (the thing Mel Gibson plunged into the kid’s leg is a hypodermic filled with epinephrine).