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Weird Shit, Huh?!
Corn
Soy
Do you want to know something new I learned today? Sure you do! Did you know that there is a difference between cross-contamination and cross-contact? I didn’t! Okay, you don’t have to rub it in, not everyone is as smart as you! To tell you the truth it’s a little embarrassing to come to find out that these are two completely different food related interactions that can cause two completely different reactions in people. Especially since I have spent just about my entire life dealing with food allergies. Obviously, I’m not a scientist or a researcher or a literary scholar of any kind and have no business providing the public with potential life saving advice regarding food allergies. I’m going to leave that up to FAACT & FARE. I’ll just give you a little bit of information on what I have experienced throughout my life and what I have learned.
You might be wondering what my food allergies are. Technically I am wondering that as well, since they seem to be ever-changing and each time I go to get tested, different results are indicated for different foods. One thing that has remained a constant since I was 4 years old is my allergy to peanuts. Yup! I’m one of those! The group of kids who had a peanut allergy while in elementary school in the 1990s and eventually, though unintentionally, caused an uproar at schools, after school programs, and camps creating a need to ban all nut related products from the premises. I have also spent my life avoiding all tree nuts. Throughout the many years I have had allergy testing, my level of food allergy severity for various tree nuts has increased and decreased with age. That being said, I have been told by doctors to stay away from the whole tree nut family to avoid a potential reaction. “It’s better to be safe than sorry.”
Currently, the one additional food allergy that I am aware of is sesame. I have to be honest here and say that avoiding sesame isn’t exactly on my priorities list. I have been known to pick the seeds off of the bottom of a bagel or scrape them off the top of some sushi rice and then go about my business. (Don’t tell any of this to my Mom please! She will kill me,… unless the anaphylaxis from eating sesame does first…). I had about a four year stint of being allergic to soy and corn in my early twenties. It was seriously the most random and strange situation. As if I woke up one day and my stomach decided it was in a fight with soy and corn and would not allow it into my body. I had the oddest localized reaction to both soy and corn, which was gastrointestinal. Basically, if I ate Steak Teriyaki and Miso Soup for dinner, within an hour or two it magically looked like I was in my third trimester. Fun stuff right?! Thankfully, I was re-tested a few years later after avoiding both soy and corn and the allergy had disappeared. Needless to say Mexican and Japanese food were my alternating meals for the entire month that followed. Weird shit, huh?!
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The lesson here is that “change” , is the only thing that never changes. Keep trying and enjoy new foods that you once shunned.
Hi Shelll!
Thank you so much for your interest in my blog. I appreciate all of my readers comments and insight. I always like to see how each post is interpreted. I am intrigued by your personal take-away lesson from this post as “trying new foods” isn’t exactly something I do as an A.P.E. I value your opinion and would just like to add that an additional lesson to be learned from this post is that all things in life are unexpected and as much as we try to control our environment, life can throw a curveball at us and you can no longer eat corn on the cob. 🙂
Really interesting post.