Her father is suing.
She has a nut allergy and ate baklava? Because someone told her it didn’t have nuts in it? IT’S MADE OF NUTS!!! Did she eat it with her eyes closed?
She didn’t have an epi pen? She didn’t go to the school nurse? Checked out of school and took a walk instead? What? What?
I don’t have allergies, so someone please help me make sense of this. How could a seventeen year old with nut allergies eat baklava and head to CVS for some Benadryl afterwards?
Isn’t that an unusually bad series of decisions? Darwin Award level? I mean, if it wasn’t this, she might have died trying to dry her hair in the microwave.
You sound like you take things quite seriously, as well you should. I’m sure there’s a level of shame, and perhaps that’s a bigger deal with a teen. I really don’t blame her too much, although I do think it’s incautious of anyone to trust an unknown person’s word with a deadly food item.
I think I acknowledged that. People also take calculated risk every day. It’s really hard to avoid nuts even when you’re not intending on taking that risk. Baklava is pretty obviously nutty, but these days product labeling pretty much always says may contain peanuts for liability reasons, even when it definitely doesn’t contain peanuts. You’re left not knowing what actually contains peanuts and what doesn’t. You become desensitized to taking a chance. I once ordered a dessert at a restaurant and asked the waiter to check if it had peanuts, he came back and said it did not. I got the dessert, started eating it, mouth started swelling up, asked the waiter to check again, he came back and said there are definitely no peanuts but the chocolate mousse what peanut butter whipped chocolate mousse. So people are also just fucking stupid, can’t trust anyone to have any common sense anymore.
Even a known person’s word. People fuck up. Someone who doesn’t have a peanut allergy doesn’t know that even TRACES of peanut can kill people who have the allergy. So they’ll read “may contain traces of peanuts” and not understand.
When you have a lethal allergy you need to be prepared for good-natured ignorance and stupidity. And for a minor, it is on the parents that she wasn’t prepared.