On 8-27-99 my local newspaper ran an article about peanut allergy and my 6 year old son. You can find the article on their web site at: [url="http://www.tdn.com/"]http://www.tdn.com/[/url] (The Daily News, Longview WA. "Class to be peanut free")
I initiated the interest in doing an article with my local newspaper. I thought it might be interesting to do a story about severe peanut allergy and the risks of attending first grade. My motivation to go "public" with my son's peanut allergy was to promote community awareness, to help the families of my son's first grade class understand the severity of his allergy and how important a peanut free classroom is for him, and to express my gratitude to the school staff for the measures they are willing to put into place to create a safe learning environment. So far the article has been well received.
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pWow! What a well-written article, Lorraine! You do us all a great service by educating people like this. I'll be including a copy of this newspaper article in my 504 proposal for kindergarten next year. Thanks again. It sure must have taken guts to "out" your son around this severe peanut allergy, but we all benefit. I'm glad it's being well-received./p
pNoreen/p
pHi Lorraine,/p
pThanks so much for going public and for sharing the very informative story. I went to the address that you provided and found the LETTERS page. I sent a letter to the newspaper thanking them for the great article and mentioned that our daughter was also allergic to peanut products./p
pI think that the paper might get an idea of just how many kids have this allergy to peanut products if all of us sent them a note about the article - any ideas on this?/p
pThanks, Lorraine, for helping educate the public./p
pSue in Sunny Arizona/p
pThank you for your comments and support about the news article. It has only been a few days since the article appeared in the paper and I have received many positive comments from friends and strangers. I have had strangers call me and ask questions about food allergies or to say they understand how serious this is because they or someone in their family are allergic to peanuts. This article has been good for us./p
pLorraine: I went to the website and could not find your article. I was wondering if it was possible for you to send me a copy of it? Thank you. Lynda [img]http://client.ibboards.com/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]/p
pHi I too could not find the article...maybe someoine could just hyperlink it. there did not seem to be an archive area to search for articles from a certain date. Maybe someone could help!/p
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pDitto to all of the above. I would love to see it too, but had trouble contacting the site. Thanks./p
pHi Lorraine,br /
could you please hyperlink me a copy too?br /
I'd love to read it.br /
Thanks to all of you and you valuable inforamation my husband and I had a very successful "peanut meeting" at my sons (first grade) school today! We now have a peanut free classroom...not lunchroom or school, but we're thrilled with the classroom. The faculty (about 30) were very supportive and sincerely concerned for our son.br /
I have to provide the teacher with a list of safe snacks for the parents of the my sons classmates....is there a place where I can locate this? I have a short list but would like more ideas for these families.br /
Any suggestions??br /
Again, thank you all so very much!br /
Debbiebr /
mom to 3 kids with peanut allergy./p
pHate to add to the list, but I would really like a copy of the artical too. I am currently working with a staff reporter at our community newspaper. It would really help me to have a copy./p
pDouble thanks!!!/p
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