Diseases that have now become trendy

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

I thought that was just normal for women?   

this!!!^^^^^  god yes

[lee n. field]

People have figured out the claiming "i have a DESEASE!" gets them away with a whole slew of behaviors that would otherwise be unacceptable.

Been there, done that.

If I had to guess, and armchair psycholgize, it's a way of exerting control on the world around them.  The social world around them (what remains of it that isn't driven away) revolves around them and their needs and limitations.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/hsfb/2011/09/07/update-on-riverbend-player-who-collapsed-last-weekend/

[sanglant]

the reason schools go apeshit over peanut allergies is that some cases walking into a room contaminated with peanuts causes the one with the allergy to go into shock. from where i'm sitting that means the kids should in in "no-penuts school", not making 500+ kids suffer. same as getting rid of the handicapped classes*. the ones hurt hte most are the kids that needed 'em. mainly because there's no way in hell there going to catch every peanut in a normal school, and the kid is going to end in the ER/die.

*something that seemed popular back in the 80's, might have just been the one school.

[Tallpine]

I'm 57 years old,
my back, hips, legs, and knees hurt,
and I'm tired all the time.

Is there a trendy name for that 

 

[MrsSmith]

I'm 57 years old,
my back, hips, legs, and knees hurt,
and I'm tired all the time.

Is there a trendy name for that 

 

Ah, never mind.

[sanglant]

OFS

[MrsSmith]

Thanks Sanglant. That's what I was going to say. But hard to overcome all that "respect your elders" stuff...

 

[Tallpine]

Thanks Sanglant. That's what I was going to say. But hard to overcome all that "respect your elders" stuff...

 

That's right, all you young whippersnappers! 

[sanglant]

Thanks Sanglant. That's what I was going to say. But hard to overcome all that "respect your elders" stuff...

 

heh, i don't worry about it. being that i have it already.

[RevDisk]

I'm apparently allergic to coffee.  So I don't drink it.  Have been accidentally poisoned with it, with humorous results.  Ah, AD might recognize the term "SLUDGEM".   Yea, it sucks.  Oddly, smoking helps.  Nicotine must do something weird with acetylcholine receptors? 

[Pharmacology]

I'm apparently allergic to coffee.  So I don't drink it.  Have been accidentally poisoned with it, with humorous results.  Ah, AD might recognize the term "SLUDGEM".   Yea, it sucks.  Oddly, smoking helps.  Nicotine must do something weird with acetylcholine receptors? 

Well, it activates the nicotinic receptors, which is, for all intents and purposes, one of the receptors that acetylcholine targets.

So yeah, it does.

[CNYCacher]

I'm apparently allergic to coffee.  So I don't drink it.  Have been accidentally poisoned with it, with humorous results.  Ah, AD might recognize the term "SLUDGEM".   Yea, it sucks.  Oddly, smoking helps.  Nicotine must do something weird with acetylcholine receptors?  

Interesting

[Terpsichore]

Because it allows a 30-something woman to exert control over you, and that makes her feel better about herself.One of the boys my daughter went to school with was supposedly allergic to peanuts.  He stole Nutter Butters from the other kids lunches.  (he wasn't the one that was sick, it was his mother who was sick in the head)

A parent of a boy in my daughter's class wouldn't let him eat anything that wasn't made by her.  If it was another student's turn to bring class snack, he couldn't eat it, always brought his own.  Met the mom once during parent/teacher conferences....had to feel sorry for the kiddo.  Mom was, well, overprotective seems a little too gentle of a word to describe her.

[Iain]

the reason schools go ape*expletive deleted* over peanut allergies is that some cases walking into a room contaminated with peanuts causes the one with the allergy to go into shock. from where i'm sitting that means the kids should in in "no-penuts school", not making 500+ kids suffer.

How's the sitting in bizarro-land?

Cry freedom and let slip the peanut butter of doom!

[sanglant]

Breathing the peanut protein - Reaction usually occurs in the nose, and eyes.

never said it was common, which is why schools shouldn't be trying to remove peanuts.

[Iain]

And what's the alternative where there is a kid with a known, severe peanut allergy? Aside from segregating him/her in some 'special school'.

[sanglant]

exactly, the only way to keep them away from peanuts. why should the rest of the normal school kids have to deal with trying to eliminate something as common as peanuts? not like there going to let the kid carry his on epi, and if a teacher uses one on 'em that's going to be a lawsuit.

[Iain]

Is it extremely difficult not to bring peanuts to school? No peanut butter sandwiches, no Snickers, no Reese's Pieces. Sounds really complicated and very infringing on PB+J-based rights. Best bus the 'abnormal' kid half-way across the state.

[sanglant]

do you really believe that's the list off foods that contain peanuts?

[Iain]

And with awareness of the potentially, um, fatal consequences, you really think canteen suppliers aren't geared up for it? Or that other parents really feel that put out by it? Especially when everything that is made in a factory that has ever had one single nut in it is labeled as such?

A peanut-free school seems relatively easy to maintain, aside from the odd accidental slip-up, thoughtlessness and of course utter lack of consideration for others. So actually not that easy, but still the right thing to do.

[sanglant]

oh and, it wouldn't require busing, i know someone that can't go to the school so they're sending a teacher home to teach her. it wouldn't be any harder to make the school safe for her then the peanut allergy suffers.

as to how hard it is, very. it means no cooking with peanuts in anything you're going to cook food to send to school even for you're own kid/s. no peanuts in anything going to be used to carry food/anything else to school. no eating peanuts in the cloths you're wearing to school. etc., and remember we're not talking about someone that gets a rash, and that's the end of it.

[Balog]

Nothing like turning an allergy into a crippling segregation. "Oh, your body over reacts to certain chemicals? Better not leave the house then freak, you'll inconvenience all the normals."

[CNYCacher]

A peanut-free school seems relatively easy to maintain

ROFL

At the VERY least it means zero outside food.  No snacks, no birthday party treats, no kids allowed to bring their lunch.  All snacks and lunches must be provided by the school and in a strictly-controlled way.

Of course, this assumes that we really are talking about the VERY VERY rare case that a child actually does have a dangerous peanut allergy.  The VAST majority of people who claim (or whose parents claim) they have a dangerous peanut allergy do not.

[sanglant]

Nothing like turning an allergy into a crippling segregation. "Oh, your body over reacts to certain chemicals? Better not leave the house then freak, you'll inconvenience all the normals."

where did that come from? my goddaughter gets out plenty, just can't go to school. and no it's not peanuts.