What a great halloween this was! (Can't get any better!)

[jcsaleen]

Well after getting lost on halloween in rockville centre for 3 hours trying to get to my friends since he gave me the wrong fucking address!!! I finally made it home back to my house. I was in the seven with my friend who just ran in to dunkin donuts to get a quick treat per say. He comes out and gives me one of these half ass reeses cup things and I ate it fine. I'm driving back to my house and pull over because I notice I'm short of breath (very weird since I work and run constantly!). I regain myself and drop him off as I'm heading home I can feel my throat starting to close up and the road started to get blurry so I literally raced home barely making it, parking my car half ass on the side of the driveway. My airway is really starting to get tight so I ran in and took some benedrill. At this point I can barley breathe breath so my mom checks my throat and tells me almost all of my air path is blocked by the swelling of the roof of my mouth. I waited 10 fucking LONG minutes to wait for my slow dad get ready to drive me over, even though he drove good. I get into the E.R. and it's now 11pm, I ate what ever it was 9:30 and took the benedrill at 10. I waited in the E.R room not long because you could definetly see my face was red and I was really fighting to breathe + I grabbed a nice new silicone hose I bought for my car and was prepared to use it as a breathing pipe since it was flexible enough to go down but stiff enough to hold my throat open god for bid (My uncles and EMT so this was a little trick to staying alive). I get called in she's asking me all these questions, I'm thinking to myself WTF I can barley answer them! If you haven't noticed I'm trying to keep myself alive and breathing not trying to answer what the fuck I had to eat yesterday! I know what the fuck is wrong, it was some sort of nut in this fake ass reeces I ate. At this point all these questions are just pissing me off thus making me more tense and closing my airway up tighter. I finally said calmly as best as I could, enough. I told her listen ~ here's what I am allegeric to as of now, here's the med's I'm taking. This is obviously and allergic reaction so can I either get treatment or am I going to have stab myself with the Epi pen I have in pocket, Thanks! At that point she knew I was serious so they rushed me in and hooked an Iv up and gave me some steriods and a direct injection of something to counter the allergic reaction. When the doc came in and looked (His eye's went big) he said if I hadn't come in right away and taken the benedrill when I did I might not be here... All because of a stupid reeces! I got out of the E.r. at 4:30am after being on an Iv and hearing a 9 year old screaming for 6 hours with the same thing I had but far less serious. All I can think about is if I was stubborn about it and decided to sleep it off my airway would have snap shut like a mouse-trap when I was passed out sleeping and then I would have not been so fortunate.

Going back to sleep now ~ So friggin tired of all these meds!

BTW ~ HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

[ThatRoundHeadedKid]

Wow dude....Why'd you eat the Reeses if you new u were allergic to nuts?

Glad you're ok.

[jcsaleen]

A. I didn't know my friend bought them and gave me a peice thank god not a whole cookie.

B. I didn't know I was allergic to nuts man, I've never had a problem up till now EVER! The only thing I'm highly allergic anestsia and coconut. My doc said you can just develop allergies literally overnight so I'm guessing thats what happened.

[ThatRoundHeadedKid]

Werd.

I never used to be allergic to certain fruits

But just recently, I ate a plum. My lip started stinging and itching and swelled up. My throat had the same reaction and it felt like I had cotton throat (as opposed to cotton mouth).

Never had such an issue.

[Paul79UF]

Wow, what a story. I feel for you man.

I saw an eye opening special on food allergies on discovery health. Now when I go to the supermarket I always notice the labels on all the products that list the major allergens.