Allergic

This is what an allergy skin test looks like. That big huge welt in the middle..cashews. The one on the upper right shoulder...pistachios. We already knew this, but over the last year he has had several episodes, and we figured it was time to go back and get retested. It was actually Sam's idea. He would ask me every day after school if I had made him an appointment yet. He was really, really, really hoping that he had outgrown his peanut allergy. He was pretty convinced that he would be ok and allowed to start eating peanut stuff. It was a good thing that Nate prepared him for the reality that we saw today. I think it softened the disappointment a bit. No Nuts For Sam. {still} Now, the interesting thing about Sam's allergies, is that we believe he is allergic to pectin. It's the only explanation for some of the reactions he has had....like eating handfuls of raspberries, and then breaking out when he ate the jam I made just hours later. The Doctor did not have a pectin extract to do a test, and suggested that we bring some pectin in and he would make some to do a test if we wanted a difinitive answer. I think we will, just to see what it does. He also suggested that Sam would make a great Case Study if there were someone interested in publishing a paper. It seemed to me that he was pretty intrigued with Sam's whole allergy thing. I'm curious too, now. I think I'm going to do a little research.