“My daughter is a science kid. She loves trees, dirt, bugs. She is an enthusiastic budding chef, equally comfortable slicing salad vegetables or mixing the Sunday morning pancake batter. She is a prolific reader, a ballet dancer and an artist. She is also a food allergy kid. But she is not a food allergy ‘sufferer’.”
I wrote those words in 2018 for Allergic Living, when my daughter was 7 years old and participating in a Phase 3 clinical trial for a novel peanut patch therapy. Diagnosed with egg, peanut and several tree nut allergies before she was 2, she viewed herself as “both the scientist and part of the science, advancing toward a cure for herself and her peers.”
