SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #199

[Donna J. White]

So does this mean it was okay for her behave badly?  I am deathly allergic
to poinsettias.  Exposure to them for less than two minutes causes an
anaphylactic reaction.  I have been clinically dead twice.  Does this mean
I have the right to send someone over and burn them or spray them with
Round-Up?  NO.  I try to make sure I am in an open area if I might have to
be around them, but usually I just don't go anywhere (church, work, the
grocery store, my kid's school, the hospital, etc) during their peak
season.  If I do have to go somewhere I call in advance and ask them to
remove them until I can leave.  It's a shame, especially since it is an ADA
protected allergy.

I would never guess anyone would think it proper to behave so brutishly. 
This lady should carry with her an Epi Kit (as I do) and a filter mask (as
I do) to prevent her exposure.  There are many wonderful environmental
specialists out there who can help.  Maybe she could take shots or use
sublingual treatment.

I do not wish her any harm and only hope she is able to get the medical
treatment that is obviously so desperately needed.  I cannot see, however,
how acting (or having others act) so badly could possibly do her service.

I believe she needs to be careful, but in a gentle sort of way.  If it
bothers you, then do what you can to avoid it.  Don't impose your own
restrictions on everyone else unless you are in your own home.

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> From: Bronwynmgn at aol.com
> To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #199
> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 1997 7:54 PM
> 
> In a message dated 97-07-15 11:04:06 EDT, you write:
> 
> << Peters, Rise J. wrote:
>  > So her allergies are so bad that even the existence of unsealed fish,
out
>  > there in the local environment, being cooked for other people, even if
she
>  > isn't eating it, is enough to kill her?  Amazing.
>  
>  It is rumored (I am not a witness to this, but people I know and trust
>  were, I'm told) that a gentle was grilling a couple of those little
>  sunfish or crappies caught in Cooper's Lake at Pennsic, and that a
>  couple of burly squire types entered the camp, picked up the portable
>  grill, and dumped it into the lake, giving as their reason that the
>  smoke was bothering the lady. >>
> 
> I was personally involved in an incident in which the lady in question
opened
> the door to a hall in which there was an open can of tuna fish and
promptly
> passed out.  She eventually was taken to the hospital for treatment.
> 
> Brangwayna
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