KRuD

That's the nickname I gave to my sister when we were growing up. It's her initials with a strategically placed vowel, for meaning. Couple of nights ago, Krud and her kids had dinner with me at Mom and Dad's where she spent most of the time talking about her kids medical problems. We ended up arguing about it.

I happen to think that kids generally are born healthy, and we make them sick by sterilizing their environment and activities, abusing antibiotics, and "telling" them they can't eat such and such. She passes off them as "natural victims", nearly handicapped really, by their ailments; nothing to do with environment or her overreaction. "So and so is now allergic to strawberries". So and so "crashed" the other day from hypoglycemia. On and on and on...I don't get it. Someone better explain to me how you add allergies to food every year. A kid eats strawberries for 6 years, then becomes allergic? Bullhockey. Case in point: My wife believed for years that she was allergic to cats...Until we got one. Guess what, no allergies. Her mother had just always "told" her that she was; probably the result of an unfortunate coincidence in which some unrelated rash appeared after proximal contact with a cat.

Food allergies, skin allergies, asthma, hypoglycemia, dyslexia, ADHD...these kids are screwed. Not because they are sick, but because they are labeled.