This article is a good one. I feel like I am nearly OCD at times, but it's not OCD because my constant cleaning, wiping and food preparing is purposeful and life-saving. I feel like I have normal, healthy children. But, we ( my husband and I and even our children's grandparents) do live in a different world than parents and grandparents of children without life-threatening food allergies to the dreaded peanut and treenuts.
I recently wrote to the Cincinnati Reds and asked if they had any accomadations for children with peanut allergies. There response was not sensitive, certainly far from accomodating. I am still considering how to respond. I'll let you know what I decide.
Ms. J,
Unfortunately, we do not have a peanut free zone at Great American Ball Park. We have previously looked into this idea, but even if we are able to create a peanut free suite, we cannot guarantee a peanut free path to the suite, nor could we guarantee that our ventilation system was free of any peanut dust. The same issues would arise if we established a seating area as peanut free. Even if we could guarantee a path into the ballpark, we could not keep a breeze from off the river from blowing peanut dust into the established peanut free zone.
Thanks,
Sean
Really? Does he think we live in a bubble. I would not have thought this response was rude if it had not been for the "we could not keep a breeze from off the river from blowing peanut dust into the est. pfz". I think what I want is a seat for the boys in the handicap section, where it would be less likely that peanut shells would be tossed there way. Maybe I will ask him if he can do that? What do you think? The National's have a peanut free zone, couldn't the Reds just offer special seats?
