Allergies

read D's update in Fb and she says lil princess S is allergic to milk, egg, peanuts, soya, wheat....


Remembered a story and so Im blogging about it. Many years ago, I did a flight to Manchester... was entrusted to a boy under "Unaccompanied minor" (basically means damn young boy traveling alone) He has SEVERE allergies to nuts and the whole aircraft had to be disinfect and all nuts by products was to be removed. All our satay, peanuts, snacks were changed to other stuffs.

I was assigned to him, so did the usual stuffs to ensure that he is safe and comfortable. The list came and was highlighted as "must pay attention" by the ground staff. So did my small chat with him and asked him how serious was his nut allergy and if there are medicine if he gets a whiff of the nuts dust. He told me no medicine as his next attack of allergy is death. I was like blur... he further explained that he escaped death when he was young and that ever since then, his whole town, his school, his neighboring town basically a radius of 20km do not sell, serve, eat nuts. I was bewildered .... the parents, doctors all worked together to inform everyone in his town of his peculiar and serious allergy. So everyone do not have contact with nuts in fear of bringing it back to the home town and even the neighboring town decided to join forces too.

It was at this moment I have so much respect for the british and their love. The sacrifices they did for a child :)

I swear that flight was way stressful as all the crew panicked as it was death of a child due to our negligence. Announcements was made sooooo many times, we walked around and checked if anyone was to open a packet of snacks. Particularly reminding the passengers around him,  I had one passenger who stopped me to ask me why the seriousness this flight, I explained the situation and she passed me some titbits and requested that I throw it away before she makes a mistake by opening them. <3

At the end of the flight, we handed him over and reminded so much to the round staff. Each gave him a hug, told him to look after himself and grow up healthy. It was from this incident, I knew the severity of  allergies.