Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Mike? Allison? Pecans?

We've been thinking about baby names lately. Well rethinking actually. We've had our kids names picked out (assuming everything goes according to plan . . .) since before we were engaged. The first one went perfectly. We found out she was a girl, the name fits her personality great and she even looks the part. Since that time I decided I was only having 3 kids (after being through one, I decided I wasn't up for 6 pregnancies and 6 labors. Three is my maximum. I was actually hoping this one might be twins, whatever the challenges they pose at least I wouldn't have to be pregnant again. Alas they tell me there's only one . . . but we'll find out for sure when they do the second ultrasound). Anyways, the point is . . . middle names. That's what poses the challenges for us, we still have our first names picked out but the middle is what we have a problem with. Now realizing that I'm not giving out personal information including possible baby names, and especially our last name, there's not much anyone reading this could do to help. But it is the dilemma of the day.

In other news Googie is feeling better. And neither I nor Daddy have had any symptoms or signs of catching it (which is very unusual as I seem to catch everything she does. We're always sick at the same time or one after the other. Which makes taking care of her and the house rather challenging . . .) So we're beginning to wonder if it was something she ate. She didn't eat anything bad as far as I know, we all at the same things it was Sunday, and we were together all day. So I'm pretty confident in ruling out food poisoning. I'm also pretty confident in ruling out a virus for the above reason, and also the fact that the doctor said that the throwing up should be accompanied by diarrhea (which it wasn't, though it still could be a virus even if unlikely). The last option that I can come up with is a food allergy.

The only two things that we had that were new to her were fresh pineapple, and crushed pecans in a cheesecake crust. She has had canned pineapple before so I don't think that it being fresh should make such a difference. So that leaves the pecans (if I'm right in my medical theory, and if she didn't eat something gross off the floor, and if she didn't drink enough bubble bath water to make her sick, and if . . . I don't know but I'm sure there are other possibilities). So my question is, if it was the pecans she only had a bite of cheesecake because she didn't particularly like it. So if she is allergic to only pecans and not peanuts as found in peanut butter, then is it something I need to be concerned with, could it be life threatening if she ate a whole pecan instead of just the crumbles from one? Or are there enough "ifs" to put off a trip to the doctor for allergy testing. I don't have much experience with allergies. All I know is my brother is allergic to dogs, my mom is allergic to bees, and I'm allergic to amoxicillian, all of which produce hives or severe hay fever, nothing really serious. So my question again should I be worried?

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