* If your name is Barack, you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.

* If you graduate from Harvard law School, you are unstable.
* If you attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you’re very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.
* If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

Okay, much clearer now, Sarah/McCain represent TRUE Americanism
My friend who is a junior in college actually did write this. She is an african-american liberal. I am a conservative. I was just checking, calm down.

In Bahrain , a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.

(Do they look different reversed?)

Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers. The sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times.

(A brick?)

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

(Much worse than “going blind!”)

There are men in Guam whose full- time job is to travel the countryside
And deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time. The reason? Under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry.

(Let’s just think for a minute; is there any job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to this?)

In Hong Kong , a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband’s illicit lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.

(Ah! Justice!)

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool , England – but only in tropical fish stores.

(But of course!)

In Cali , Colombia , a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens, her mother must be in the room to witness the act.

(Makes one shudder at the thought.)

In Santa Cruz , Bolivia , it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.

(I presume this was a big enough problem that they had to pass this law?)

In Maryland , it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: Prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only “in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises.”

(Is this a great country or what? Well, not as great as Guam!)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Who volunteers for this stuff?)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)

The ant can lift 50 times it’s own weight, can pull 30 times it’s own weight and always falls over on it’s right side when intoxicated.

(From drinking little bottles of??? Did the government pay for this research??)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Ah, geez.)

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)

Starfish don’t have brains.

(I know some people like that, too.)

And, the best for last? Turtles can breathe through their butts.

(And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!)

THE ENQUIRER also has exclusive details about Track’s use of other drugs, including cocaine, and his involvement in a notorious local vandalism incident.

“I’ve partied with him (Track) for years,” a source disclosed. “I’ve seen him snort cocaine, snort and smoke OxyContin, drink booze and smoke weed.”

The source also divulged the girls would do anything for Track and he’d use his local celebrity to manipulate other guys “to get them to steal things he wanted.”

“He finally did what a lot of troubled kids here do,” the source divulged. “You join the military.”

And as Gov. Palin has billed the state of Alaska for various expenses related to her children, as reported by The Washington Post, The ENQUIRER’s investigation reveals that she was so incensed by 17-year-old Bristol’s pregnancy that she banished her daughter from the house.

Another family friend revealed pre-prego Bristol was as much of a hard partier as Track was.

“Bristol was a huge stoner and drinker. I’ve seen her smoke pot and get drunk and make out with so many guys. All the guys would brag that the just made out with Bristol.”

When Sarah found out the teen was pregnant by high schooler Levi Johnston, she was actually banished from the house. As part of the cover-up, Palin quickly transferred Bristol to another high school and made her move in with Sarah’s sister Heather 25 miles away!
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Never can tell. They were right about Edwards even after constant denials.

But in tis matter, from the begining, however, despite the hype, there was something about her — she just didn’t seem the wholesome mother. Soon thereafter, she left little doubt that she didn’t have much power or influence over her kids, and little doubt but that she was/is a good liar.

Today I will be writing about an evil old lady based on true stories also presently happening as you read.. Her name is Gwan Yuk Lan. No, I do not know the meaning of her name. Mrs. Lan is 80 years old and very healthy. She has all her teeth, she can run fast, jog, perfect vision, great hearing and memory. Mrs. Lan has 5 daughters and 2 sons. 4 daughters in Ottawa, 2 sons in Ottawa and 1 daughter that chose to stay in China. Mrs. Lan is my grandma, my evil grandma. I am the youngest child in my family of 5 one older sister at 24 and one older brother at 25r. Mrs. Lan has lived with our family of 5 since all three of us were born!

1. Mrs.Lan use to be the one to bring us to the bus stop for school and pick us up from the bus stop from school just like every other granny’s would do. She was normal until we all hit our teenage years. So, who was the one who first noticed about Mrs. Lan’s evilness? Yes, indeed it was me! How? Let me tell you.. When I was about 14 years young I started catching Mrs. Lan doing all these annoying daily, evening routines that were absolutely pointless. I would also catch her do nasty things that would harm another human being. Not any other human being but blood family members including myself.

2. One day my family was out shopping and I decided to stay home while my grandma was downstairs. I got hungry and started to crave for milk so I went downstairs. As I was walking towards the kitchen Mrs. Lan did not hear me walk in and you would never believe what I seen. You know when you boil water you will pour it into those jugs to keep the water to stay hot? Well those.. So she got the water thing out and poured herself a glass of hot burning water. Right when she drank it near the end she poured back the rest of her leftovers back into the “thing”. That is very nasty. WHY? because we all drink from that, its like her telling us silently without anyone knowing to drink her saliva! Ewww.. like is she serious? On top of that how do we know how long she’s done that for. So now we gave her, her own personal water thing.

3. Many years back Mrs. Lan went to China to visit her oldest daughter. Thats when we realized that not only she was evil but her 5 daughters are worse. You would never believe what Mrs. Lan told her oldest daughter to do. So.. one day the family was eating dinner at home and next thing you know there was a phone call for my mother. Who was the other person on the other line? Yes, Mrs Lans oldest daughter. We never even met this lady that we call our aunt. anyways back to the point. So my mother is on the phone now asking who are you about 10 times. And the lady goes “your husband does’nt like you, he’s with “so and so”. You guys will divorce soon my brother told me so. My mom obviously don’t believe bullshit that she doesn’t see with her own eyes. So she told her I don’t believe what you say, I know who you are and don’t call back and hung up. Its obvious that Mrs. Lan has told her to do that or else how would she get our house number? I means its not in the phone book! I don’t know what it is with my grandma, or what she has against our family but whatever it is.. is not right at all..

Lest’s get straight to the point.. Why do I dislike her? what has she ever done to me?

Alot! not only what she does to me, shes the one who causes all the commotion in this house my parents put over her head. Shes the one whos trying to get my parents to have a divorce. Shes the one who makes my loving mother a life of a living hell. Nobody hurts my mother!! So let me tell you about the annoying things she does to me. I never use to have allergies until one day I thought allergies grown in me haha. One morning out of no-where I started to have very teary eyes, and I would keep on sneezing until I got my bum out of the bed to blow my nose because if I didn’t I would just keep sneezing with druling boogers down my nostril. I found out that it wasn’t allergies infact it was my grandmothers shedded skin I’ve been breathing in every night for the past 2 years. It became severe! How do I know its her shedded skin? Me and my grandma Mrs. Lan share rooms together and one day I snook into my room to see what she does. Mrs. Lan is a very sneaky person and you never know what she does so don’t blame me for being a curious young lady haha. Okay, So before I go on… You now how they say the older you are the more dry your skin is, so the more dry your skin is.. the more you get itchy.. so the more your itchy the more you shed? Well its true and whats worse is Mrs. Lan does not use lotion eaither. Mrs. Lan coming straight out of China she probably still don’t even know what lostion is and its 2009! anyways… So I sneak up the stairs and looked into my room and I catch her taking off her sweater, her shirt, her pants.. and basically each piece of clothing that she takes of she would shake the clothes over my bed where my pillow area is. Then she would take her pajama pants and wipe down her bed then take the pants and shake the pants over my bed again. Right now I got real mad but some how I needed evidence. So what did I do? I took my cellphone out and put it on record and got the evidence to show my parents. For the past 2 years I’ve been sniffing up all her dead skin cells including the extra dust tat was put onto my bed. That is just dusgusting!! 2 months ago I told my father that I will buy a lock to my room and lock my room up everytime I am out if she does that one more time. And of course.. 1st strike…2nd strike.. 3rd strike.. No.. I didn’t end up buying no lock because A. I didn’t know how to screw one on and B. My dad would object me from doing so. So what did I do.. I made my own.. I made my own by taking the entire door-nob OFF and now I am using the door-nob as a key to open the door! It’s not my fault! We gave her many warnings to stop but she wouldnt’ so she asked for that herself. Its not like we want to you know? Yes we feel sorry for her but really in truly I do not want to have that feeling of the so called allergies I had for 2 years. I know its her. and I know it was that because right after I made my own lock thing. I never even had a runny nose every again. IM happy! We are a chinese family, my parents and all the old generations believe in spirits, Buddha etc. So in my living room there is a stand with Mrs. Lans husbands picture on the stand because he’s passed away many years ago. And its there so she can pray to him. Its very hard to explain but you can ask the chinese about that and maybe they can define it better than I can. So anyways A couple days ago Jan/31/08. She was caught talking to the picture of her husband telling him to help her and to listen to her. And this is what she had said in Cantonese “You listen to me now, Their mother do not respect me at all.. Help me get them. I hope you get them. I hope they get hit by a car when they walk out of this house and die. I hope they get hit by a car and die!” ARE YOU SERIOUS? Does she not notice the things that she does is totally wrong? we tell her what mistakes she does what did we do wrong. Ya we know shes old but that doesnt mean we can let he do all those stupid nasty things right? Everything in her mind is normal how hard is it to just stop? Why only to this house? When she sleeps over its like different grandmother overcomes her body. To her other family she would show care.. she would call them by their names.. she would bring their shoes to them.. jackets.. whatever! To us? She never even said our names once.. does nothing but try to kill us.. I don’t get it!! Soo many other things on the list I want to write about but unfortunately there are too many.. I will stop now and keep looking out for more serious issues. Too Be Continued!

Today I will be writing about an evil old lady based on true stories also presently happening as you read.. Her name is Gwan Yuk Lan. No, I do not know the meaning of her name. Mrs. Lan is 80 years old and very healthy. She has all her teeth, she can run fast, jog, perfect vision, great hearing and memory. Mrs. Lan has 5 daughters and 2 sons. 4 daughters in Ottawa, 2 sons in Ottawa and 1 daughter that chose to stay in China. Mrs. Lan is my grandma, my evil grandma. I am the youngest child in my family of 5 one older sister at 24 and one older brother at 25r. Mrs. Lan has lived with our family of 5 since all three of us were born!

1. Mrs.Lan use to be the one to bring us to the bus stop for school and pick us up from the bus stop from school just like every other granny’s would do. She was normal until we all hit our teenage years. So, who was the one who first noticed about Mrs. Lan’s evilness? Yes, indeed it was me! How? Let me tell you.. When I was about 14 years young I started catching Mrs. Lan doing all these annoying daily, evening routines that were absolutely pointless. I would also catch her do nasty things that would harm another human being. Not any other human being but blood family members including myself.

2. One day my family was out shopping and I decided to stay home while my grandma was downstairs. I got hungry and started to crave for milk so I went downstairs. As I was walking towards the kitchen Mrs. Lan did not hear me walk in and you would never believe what I seen. You know when you boil water you will pour it into those jugs to keep the water to stay hot? Well those.. So she got the water thing out and poured herself a glass of hot burning water. Right when she drank it near the end she poured back the rest of her leftovers back into the “thing”. That is very nasty. WHY? because we all drink from that, its like her telling us silently without anyone knowing to drink her saliva! Ewww.. like is she serious? On top of that how do we know how long she’s done that for. So now we gave her, her own personal water thing.

3. Many years back Mrs. Lan went to China to visit her oldest daughter. Thats when we realized that not only she was evil but her 5 daughters are worse. You would never believe what Mrs. Lan told her oldest daughter to do. So.. one day the family was eating dinner at home and next thing you know there was a phone call for my mother. Who was the other person on the other line? Yes, Mrs Lans oldest daughter. We never even met this lady that we call our aunt. anyways back to the point. So my mother is on the phone now asking who are you about 10 times. And the lady goes “your husband does’nt like you, he’s with “so and so”. You guys will divorce soon my brother told me so. My mom obviously don’t believe bullshit that she doesn’t see with her own eyes. So she told her I don’t believe what you say, I know who you are and don’t call back and hung up. Its obvious that Mrs. Lan has told her to do that or else how would she get our house number? I means its not in the phone book! I don’t know what it is with my grandma, or what she has against our family but whatever it is.. is not right at all..

Lest’s get straight to the point.. Why do I dislike her? what has she ever done to me?

Alot! not only what she does to me, shes the one who causes all the commotion in this house my parents put over her head. Shes the one whos trying to get my parents to have a divorce. Shes the one who makes my loving mother a life of a living hell. Nobody hurts my mother!! So let me tell you about the annoying things she does to me. I never use to have allergies until one day I thought allergies grown in me haha. One morning out of no-where I started to have very teary eyes, and I would keep on sneezing until I got my bum out of the bed to blow my nose because if I didn’t I would just keep sneezing with druling boogers down my nostril. I found out that it wasn’t allergies infact it was my grandmothers shedded skin I’ve been breathing in every night for the past 2 years. It became severe! How do I know its her shedded skin? Me and my grandma Mrs. Lan share rooms together and one day I snook into my room to see what she does. Mrs. Lan is a very sneaky person and you never know what she does so don’t blame me for being a curious young lady haha. Okay, So before I go on… You now how they say the older you are the more dry your skin is, so the more dry your skin is.. the more you get itchy.. so the more your itchy the more you shed? Well its true and whats worse is Mrs. Lan does not use lotion eaither. Mrs. Lan coming straight out of China she probably still don’t even know what lostion is and its 2009! anyways… So I sneak up the stairs and looked into my room and I catch her taking off her sweater, her shirt, her pants.. and basically each piece of clothing that she takes of she would shake the clothes over my bed where my pillow area is. Then she would take her pajama pants and wipe down her bed then take the pants and shake the pants over my bed again. Right now I got real mad but some how I needed evidence. So what did I do? I took my cellphone out and put it on record and got the evidence to show my parents. For the past 2 years I’ve been sniffing up all her dead skin cells including the extra dust tat was put onto my bed. That is just dusgusting!! 2 months ago I told my father that I will buy a lock to my room and lock my room up everytime I am out if she does that one more time. And of course.. 1st strike…2nd strike.. 3rd strike.. No.. I didn’t end up buying no lock because A. I didn’t know how to screw one on and B. My dad would object me from doing so. So what did I do.. I made my own.. I made my own by taking the entire door-nob OFF and now I am using the door-nob as a key to open the door! It’s not my fault! We gave her many warnings to stop but she wouldnt’ so she asked for that herself. Its not like we want to you know? Yes we feel sorry for her but really in truly I do not want to have that feeling of the so called allergies I had for 2 years. I know its her. and I know it was that because right after I made my own lock thing. I never even had a runny nose every again. IM happy! We are a chinese family, my parents and all the old generations believe in spirits, Buddha etc. So in my living room there is a stand with Mrs. Lans husbands picture on the stand because he’s passed away many years ago. And its there so she can pray to him. Its very hard to explain but you can ask the chinese about that and maybe they can define it better than I can. So anyways A couple days ago Jan/31/08. She was caught talking to the picture of her husband telling him to help her and to listen to her. And this is what she had said in Cantonese “You listen to me now, Their mother do not respect me at all.. Help me get them. I hope you get them. I hope they get hit by a car when they walk out of this house and die. I hope they get hit by a car and die!” ARE YOU SERIOUS? Does she not notice the things that she does is totally wrong? we tell her what mistakes she does what did we do wrong. Ya we know shes old but that doesnt mean we can let he do all those stupid nasty things right? Everything in her mind is normal how hard is it to just stop? Why only to this house? When she sleeps over its like different grandmother overcomes her body. To her other family she would show care.. she would call them by their names.. she would bring their shoes to them.. jackets.. whatever! To us? She never even said our names once.. does nothing but try to kill us.. I don’t get it!! Soo many other things on the list I want to write about but unfortunately there are too many.. I will stop now and keep looking out for more serious issues. Too Be Continued!

Today I will be writing about an evil old lady based on true stories also presently happening as you read.. Her name is Gwan Yuk Lan. No, I do not know the meaning of her name. Mrs. Lan is 80 years old and very healthy. She has all her teeth, she can run fast, jog, perfect vision, great hearing and memory. Mrs. Lan has 5 daughters and 2 sons. 4 daughters in Ottawa, 2 sons in Ottawa and 1 daughter that chose to stay in China. Mrs. Lan is my grandma, my evil grandma. I am the youngest child in my family of 5 one older sister at 24 and one older brother at 25r. Mrs. Lan has lived with our family of 5 since all three of us were born!

1. Mrs.Lan use to be the one to bring us to the bus stop for school and pick us up from the bus stop from school just like every other granny’s would do. She was normal until we all hit our teenage years. So, who was the one who first noticed about Mrs. Lan’s evilness? Yes, indeed it was me! How? Let me tell you.. When I was about 14 years young I started catching Mrs. Lan doing all these annoying daily, evening routines that were absolutely pointless. I would also catch her do nasty things that would harm another human being. Not any other human being but blood family members including myself.

2. One day my family was out shopping and I decided to stay home while my grandma was downstairs. I got hungry and started to crave for milk so I went downstairs. As I was walking towards the kitchen Mrs. Lan did not hear me walk in and you would never believe what I seen. You know when you boil water you will pour it into those jugs to keep the water to stay hot? Well those.. So she got the water thing out and poured herself a glass of hot burning water. Right when she drank it near the end she poured back the rest of her leftovers back into the “thing”. That is very nasty. WHY? because we all drink from that, its like her telling us silently without anyone knowing to drink her saliva! Ewww.. like is she serious? On top of that how do we know how long she’s done that for. So now we gave her, her own personal water thing.

3. Many years back Mrs. Lan went to China to visit her oldest daughter. Thats when we realized that not only she was evil but her 5 daughters are worse. You would never believe what Mrs. Lan told her oldest daughter to do. So.. one day the family was eating dinner at home and next thing you know there was a phone call for my mother. Who was the other person on the other line? Yes, Mrs Lans oldest daughter. We never even met this lady that we call our aunt. anyways back to the point. So my mother is on the phone now asking who are you about 10 times. And the lady goes “your husband does’nt like you, he’s with “so and so”. You guys will divorce soon my brother told me so. My mom obviously don’t believe bullshit that she doesn’t see with her own eyes. So she told her I don’t believe what you say, I know who you are and don’t call back and hung up. Its obvious that Mrs. Lan has told her to do that or else how would she get our house number? I means its not in the phone book! I don’t know what it is with my grandma, or what she has against our family but whatever it is.. is not right at all..

Lest’s get straight to the point.. Why do I dislike her? what has she ever done to me?

Alot! not only what she does to me, shes the one who causes all the commotion in this house my parents put over her head. Shes the one whos trying to get my parents to have a divorce. Shes the one who makes my loving mother a life of a living hell. Nobody hurts my mother!! So let me tell you about the annoying things she does to me. I never use to have allergies until one day I thought allergies grown in me haha. One morning out of no-where I started to have very teary eyes, and I would keep on sneezing until I got my bum out of the bed to blow my nose because if I didn’t I would just keep sneezing with druling boogers down my nostril. I found out that it wasn’t allergies infact it was my grandmothers shedded skin I’ve been breathing in every night for the past 2 years. It became severe! How do I know its her shedded skin? Me and my grandma Mrs. Lan share rooms together and one day I snook into my room to see what she does. Mrs. Lan is a very sneaky person and you never know what she does so don’t blame me for being a curious young lady haha. Okay, So before I go on… You now how they say the older you are the more dry your skin is, so the more dry your skin is.. the more you get itchy.. so the more your itchy the more you shed? Well its true and whats worse is Mrs. Lan does not use lotion eaither. Mrs. Lan coming straight out of China she probably still don’t even know what lostion is and its 2009! anyways… So I sneak up the stairs and looked into my room and I catch her taking off her sweater, her shirt, her pants.. and basically each piece of clothing that she takes of she would shake the clothes over my bed where my pillow area is. Then she would take her pajama pants and wipe down her bed then take the pants and shake the pants over my bed again. Right now I got real mad but some how I needed evidence. So what did I do? I took my cellphone out and put it on record and got the evidence to show my parents. For the past 2 years I’ve been sniffing up all her dead skin cells including the extra dust tat was put onto my bed. That is just dusgusting!! 2 months ago I told my father that I will buy a lock to my room and lock my room up everytime I am out if she does that one more time. And of course.. 1st strike…2nd strike.. 3rd strike.. No.. I didn’t end up buying no lock because A. I didn’t know how to screw one on and B. My dad would object me from doing so. So what did I do.. I made my own.. I made my own by taking the entire door-nob OFF and now I am using the door-nob as a key to open the door! It’s not my fault! We gave her many warnings to stop but she wouldnt’ so she asked for that herself. Its not like we want to you know? Yes we feel sorry for her but really in truly I do not want to have that feeling of the so called allergies I had for 2 years. I know its her. and I know it was that because right after I made my own lock thing. I never even had a runny nose every again. IM happy! We are a chinese family, my parents and all the old generations believe in spirits, Buddha etc. So in my living room there is a stand with Mrs. Lans husbands picture on the stand because he’s passed away many years ago. And its there so she can pray to him. Its very hard to explain but you can ask the chinese about that and maybe they can define it better than I can. So anyways A couple days ago Jan/31/08. She was caught talking to the picture of her husband telling him to help her and to listen to her. And this is what she had said in Cantonese “You listen to me now, Their mother do not respect me at all.. Help me get them. I hope you get them. I hope they get hit by a car when they walk out of this house and die. I hope they get hit by a car and die!” ARE YOU SERIOUS? Does she not notice the things that she does is totally wrong? we tell her what mistakes she does what did we do wrong. Ya we know shes old but that doesnt mean we can let he do all those stupid nasty things right? Everything in her mind is normal how hard is it to just stop? Why only to this house? When she sleeps over its like different grandmother overcomes her body. To her other family she would show care.. she would call them by their names.. she would bring their shoes to them.. jackets.. whatever! To us? She never even said our names once.. does nothing but try to kill us.. I don’t get it!! Soo many other things on the list I want to write about but unfortunately there are too many.. I will stop now and keep looking out for more serious issues. Too Be Continued!

However, in some people, food allergies can trigger an overwhelming, instantaneous reaction. Here are some real life examples of how food allergy can affect the life of people you love.

A 15 year old girl in Quebec, Canada died after she kissed her boyfriend. Examinations revealed that the girl had developed a severe allergic reaction to the peanut butter that the boy had eaten hours ago! The medical team that arrived to help the girl could do nothing to save her life.

Joanna was a healthy woman of 28 when she gave birth to her little daughter Kylie. Up until then, Joanna knew nothing about food allergies. But, 8 months after little Kylie was born, Joanna knew everything about nasty little food allergies. During a weekend vacation, Joanna happened to feed her daughter a formula that contained cow’s milk. Within hours of taking in the formula, Kylie developed angry red rashes all over her face, head and torso. Medical tests showed that Kylie was allergic to oranges and eggs besides cow’s milk.

For 15 years, Susan baffled doctors with her mild but persistent symptoms. She developed mild ear aches, felt listless and would throw up for no reason. Then, one day a chance conversation at a restaurant about food allergies made Susan carry out a food elimination test at home. She eliminated milk, then pepper, then fish, and finally eggs. A week into her egg free diet and Susan was a new woman.

On a night out with friends, Nathan was a little drunk when they decided to order a midnight breakfast. As it turned out, Nathan who knew he was allergic to Tobasco, ordered a pizza and spread tobasco sauce on it. Minutes after biting into the pizza, he developed breathing problems. His friends took him to the pharmacy but the pharmacist refused to give him a medication without a prescription. Nathan called his doctor on the cell phone, but the doctor did not answer. In desperation, Nathan called his mother who directed him and his friends to the doctor’s house, where the doctor gave him a prescription and accompanied him to the pharmacy.

As you can see, food allergies can hamper your lifestyle, whether they trigger immediate or slow, insidious reactions. In any case, it is important to know about your allergies and to carry medications or instructions regarding medications with you so people around you can help in case of a sudden allergic reaction.

I thought she was exaggerating, but you could see the yellow dust sink to the bottom as the water heated up.  She threw it out and cooked something else that night.  I put off going to the store that night.  It was late and I didn’t think that the need for a water filtration system was that severe.  I definitely thought it was safe for the dogs. 

I went ahead and filled up their bowls and went to bed. During our morning walk, much to my dismay I found that all three of them had developed diarrhea and there was a distinctly yellow color to it, so it was pretty easy to identify the problem.

So, I went to the store and bought that water filtration system that screws on to the kitchen faucet.  After a couple of days, it started leaking.  I’m pretty handy, so I know that I installed the thing correctly.  By the end of the week, water was spraying everywhere whenever we tried to use it.  The dogs had gotten better, so we decided to give them bottled until I could do a little research and find a better quality water filtration system.

In the meantime, my daughter’s asthma got worse.  She would have several attacks every day, but only at home.  During an after hours visit to her pediatrician, I read in a health magazine that chlorine vapors trigger asthma attacks and that the effects are worst in the bathroom during a shower, but that the vapor can linger in the house throughout the day.  This added to my dilemma.  I didn’t even know that there was such a thing as a shower head water filtration system.

Through the internet, I found performance comparison charts and learned about things like certifications for the in home water filtration system.  It’s purely voluntary, but companies can have their products evaluate by independent laboratories and post the results. 

I also learned that in addition to chlorine, there are thousands of other chemicals to worry about, along with things like cysts.  I had to look it up.  It refers to the “oocyst” stage of microscopic organisms.  During that stage, they are resistant to even chlorine disinfection.  So, the stuff that was making my daughter and my dogs sick wasn’t even protecting us from parasites or bacterial infections.

I found that there was a water filtration system for the whole house that could better protect my family’s health.  Since my wife and daughter both like to take baths, rather than showers, I thought it was a good investment.

 
Just wanted to share my story, in case you need a water filtration system, remember to do a little research first.  There are really good ones and really bad ones, so you really have to be careful.