https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156 By: Taylor Kenna en-us 2017-10-24 12:19:20 UTC 2026-03-10 03:27:38 UTC hello@padlet.com tkenna https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/199938588 The novel "Don't Kill the Birthday Girl" by Sandra Beasley is a coming of age story told through the authors point of view on how she has dealt and lived an allergic life. Beasley, an award-winning poet, is allergic to a full menu of foods: “dairy (including goat’s milk), egg, soy, beef, shrimp, pine nuts, cucumbers, cantaloupe, honeydew, mango, macadamias, pistachios, cashews, swordfish, and mustard.” Sandra needed an adult-sized purse to schlep her medicines, including her asthma inhaler, her antihistamine and her EpiPen, a device that allowed her to self-inject a life-saving shot of epinephrine. “Picture a kid in thick-lensed glasses and a be glittered T-shirt,” she writes. “Now add the purse of a thirty-two-year-old mother, complete with pills, tissues, safety pins, and too many pennies.”]]> 2017-10-24 12:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/199938588 tkenna https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/199938960 Sandra Beasley, the author of "Don't Kill the Birthday Girl",  was born on May 5, 1980 in Vienna, Virginia.  She is a very successful American poet and non-fiction writer. Beasley graduated from Thomas Jefferson High school for Science and Technology. As of today, Sandra Beasley is continuing writing poetry and non-fiction. ]]> 2017-10-24 12:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/199938960 tkenna https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/199940885 2017-10-24 12:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/199940885 tkenna https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/201511969 2017-10-29 17:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/201511969 tkenna https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/201512318 "54 percent of a pool of teenagers with severe allergies indicated purposefully ingesting a food known to contain at least a tiny amount of an allergen. Nearly half of those kids cited the rationale It looked good and I wanted to eat it."]]> 2017-10-29 17:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/201512318 tkenna https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/201522117 "Soy does a wicked birch impression so convincing to the body that ingesting soy milk has triggered anaphylactic reactions in people sensitive to the tree pollen"]]> 2017-10-29 18:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/201522117 tkenna https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/201523453 2017-10-29 19:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/201523453 tkenna https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/201523728 "But the side effects of an EpiPen's worth of epinephrine are usually no worse than tremor, nausea, and a mild headache. The side effect of anaphylaxis is death."]]> 2017-10-29 19:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tkenna/qk7jj8c42156/wish/201523728