Sqwertz wrote:

> This is just going too far:
>
> Ingredients: Milk
>
> Allergy Warning: Contains MILK
>
> And on my jug of CostCo Cashews:
>
> "Ingredients: Cashews, Peanut Oil, Salt"
>
> On another part of the label:
> "Warning: Contents processed on equipment that also processes nuts"
>
> And on yet another part of the label:
> "Consumers should read all allergy warnings carefully"
>
> Why not just read the damn ingredients and be done with it? If they
> can't read the ingredients, then they can't read any of the warnings
> warning you to read the warnings about the ingredients.
>
> -sw

My daughter has a seafood allergy. A couple weeks back her horse
slipped in the mud and fell. His momentum rolled him most of the way
onto his back and my daughter got squashed. She was riding bareback and
Reno is a Fat ******* (1,435 pounds according to the scale at the
truckstop) and her down side leg was forward, in the groove between his
shoulder and his big, fat hay belly, which protected it from the worst
of the crushing when he went down.

But she was pinned under him, and in order to gain momentum to roll off
of her he actually rolled farther onto her first.

We were worried about the possibility of broken ribs, lacerated liver,
ruptured spleen, so we took her to the ER. They did x-rays - no new
fractures, but evidence of plenty of old ones, all in various stages of
healing. And they wanted an MRI with contrast dye to make sure the
squishy parts were okay.

Because of her seafood allergy this meant that the normal contrast could
not be used, so this meant additional delay while the alternative
formulation was located.

As it turns out, she was fine, just badly bruised. But I was alarmed to
hear that one of the techs tried to tell my daughter that the seafood
allergy/contrast dye link was an old wives tale and that they could get
this over with a lot faster if they just used the standard juice. This
is NOT NOT NOT what her allergist tells us. I'm glad my daughter held
her ground and asked the guy if she was maybe cutting into his lunch hour?