Welcome back to episode 16 of the Art of Allergies podcast! We hope everyone has had a great holiday break and some time to rest and recharge with your families 🙂
In this episode, we discuss fear and how it impacts food allergy life.
Fear can be a valuable tool to aid in decision making, but we don’t want to allow it to paralyze us. We share a few of our experiences and some tools that we use for dealing with fear and successfully navigating risky scenarios in daily life.
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* * NOTICE ** We will be taking a brief holiday break, so this is the last episode for this year. We will be returning on January 1st, 2020.
Welcome back to episode 15! This one is all about doctor’s appointments (and there will be many). You can check out our previous blog post about the topic here, but in this episode, we go into a bit more detail, along with some helpful tips and tricks for how we prioritize our time and make effective use of every single appointment that we have for Shaun.
Main Topic(s)
Verify ALL aspects of your appointment
Date & Time
Location (many practices have multiple offices)
Which Doctor(s) you’re seeing
Nature of the appointment (e.g. well-visit, skin test, food challenge, etc.)
Show up to the appointment prepared
The Binder
Our 1-pager with repetitive questions/answers
Bring writtenquestions/concerns for your doctor
If the appointment is for your child, bring kid things
Books
Toys
Favorite blanket/stuffed animal
Take notes and keep copies
Any Change(s) to your care plan
Answers to your questions
Prep requirements for future testing or appointments
Red-flag symptoms and what response you should take
Medication adjustment(s)
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Listener Question
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Welcome back to episode 14! We have a bit of a different format this week, in that we don’t have as curated an episode as we normally do. This is because we felt strongly that we wanted to talk about the reaction that Shaun had last week, and our experience using the auto-injector and our trip to the emergency department. We hope you can get something out of it, and maybe it can help you if/when you encounter a similar experience in your own allergy journey.
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