Peanut Butter and anaphylaxis

By: Mel C.

So this is my first one so it might have spelling things in it so sorry.

One day when Tashs was home alone with all four kids she learned something very important about one of the kids.

" " is Talking

( ) is thinking

Chapter 2 Learning

When Tasha got back to the hospital, Adam was just about ready to come home. One of the nurses brought in two children's books for Adam to read, Called "Allie the Allergic Elephant" (by Nicole Smith, 2006) and "Peter Can't Eat Peanuts (by Nadine O'Reilly, 2006) . The Nurses told Adam he could take them home with him because of how long it was taking him to read the books. She told Mr. Davenport to have him tested for Dyslexia as well. He told her he would take that into consideration, and thanked her for both the books and conserve for his son.

The nurse took Adam off the oxygen but he was still wheezing and coughing. The Nurse told him she would be right back to give him a breathing treatment to help. So when the nurse was gone he changed into the clothes that Tasha brought him and waited with them until the doctor came. The nurse came back to the room and gave Adam a breathing treatment and he could breathe a lot better after that. The doctor showed all three of them how to use an Epi-penand two inhalers, to help with breathing. The doctor told them that Adam's lungs would be irritated for some time and breathing could be difficult as well when over exerted. He also told them that the rash on his hand should go way in a week or two. The sweating was down but his hand had started to crust over from them having to drain it. Adam got to pick out a cool looking black case with dinosaurs on it. Along with an asthma inhaler to use when he cannot breathe well. Donald and Tasha were overwhelmed by the amount of informationthat they where given and know that Adam did not understand most of what was being said or told to him.

When they left the hospital, Adam was still weak and tire, but he was trying not to let on how much he was still scared that it would happen again to him. When they got home that morning Tasha told Donald and the three bionic children that they were NO longer sleeping in the Lab that each one of them where being given a room up stair so if anything happened in the middle of the night Eddy would not have to wake them up. Mr. Davenport took Adam down to the lab to run some test while the others looked for their rooms upstairs.

Everyone was so happy to get their own room nobody noticed when Adam left them to look for what was to become his room. Adam headed in the direction of the oldest part of the house. He went past the lab lavatory past Mr. & Miss Davenport's room down a flight of stairs at the end of the hall. You would not have even see the old mahogany door just walking past it. Chase had taken the room at one end of this hall and Bree the other end of the hall. Leo had the room across the hall from this old door. Adam opened the old door that whenlead down anotherflight of stairs. The thing that Adam noticed right away was that this hall had NO Eddy and was underground.

He really could not say why it just felt right to him. He came upon a room that did not have any electromechanical door to it. He opened it and dusted and cobweb met his eyes. In the room, there was an old crib, a toddler bed and a smallsingle bed. When Adam turned on the light you could see that the walls were painted green with Winnie the Pooh and friends standalone on the walls. Adam walked in the room and his head just started to hurt and his vision stared to spin. He was not sure when he hit the floor or even if he hit the floor in the first place.

Adam was looking through a fog at the same woman from when he blacked out at the hospital. She was very much pregnant with what he assumed with Chase, she was helping changing Bree into her pj's for bed. She put Bree on her bed and helped him into bed, and picked up a book off the bookshelf. He could clearly see the book of Biblestories for children. That was when he came back to himself, he was laying on the floor of the room. He looked over to what he remembered was his bed as a small child, there was the book from his dream no not a dream but a memory from his childhood with his mother. He picked himself up off the floor and walked on shaky legs to the bed. Sat on the bed to try and come down his rushing heartbeat and slow down his breathing. After a fewminutes he could not, he started to wheezing and coughing again he took out the inhaler that they gave him at the hospital, shook it and took to two puffs off of it and felt better. Adam laid back on the bed and looked over to the nightstand to see a gold cross necklace, he picked it up and without thinking about it and put it on. Then he looked at some of the pictures on the walls and around to room to see many of himself, Bree and a sonogrampicture of Chase framed hanging above the crib. Adam thenfigured that he would leave the room and go to another room.

He took the room on the other side of the hall. He left both doors open. The light from the hall entered the room and he could see a comfortable double bed and an old Gothic cross hanging above the bed, a night stand with a light and pitchers on it. This room looked clean from the light from the hall. He was so tired from everything that had happened in the last 24 hours, he just entered the room.

He got himself settledon the bed and under the covers and was out like a light.After some sleep he got out of bed and went to the main hall and told Eddy what room he took as his own. Then went back to his room and went back to bed, he just could not stay awake any more.

In the lab, Chase and Mr. Davenport was talking about how they could help Adam learn about his allergy.Donald was studying some of the blood and test he ran on Adam when they got home that morning, to find that is body's response to proteins that are found in peanut butter, food proteins. A healthy immune system fends off potential infections and inactivating proteins found in most foods, which is the way humans are able to tolerate such a wide variety of them. However, when someone is allergic to peanut butter, the immune system responds by producing increased immunoglobulin E antibodies. These antibodies mean serious business; as they battle what they perceive as "threatening" proteins found in peanuts, they collect in certain areas of the body-specifically, the skin, intestines and lungs. It seemed that Adam had founded his own kryptonite and that was peanut butter, with his bionics he could not take it in a break it down. The strange thing is he could eat nuts and other things like that but not peanut butter.

Chase was reading from the computer about how to read food labels and find out what to look for on the packages to keep Adam from eating it and dying on them. He would not know what to do if he ever lost his big brother. His big brother was there for him in everything he has ever done. His earliestmemory is of Adam holding him and singing a song to him, He can still hear the song in his head A-a-a, a-a-a, byly sobie kotki dwa. A-a-a, kotki dwa, szarobure, szarobure obydwa.(Ah-ah-ah*, ah-ah-ah, There were once two little kittens. Ah-ah-ah, two little kittens, They were both grayish-brown.) Chase could not remember what language it was but Adam would sing it so many time he just new that song. Chase started to sing it to himself.

Mr. Davenport looked over to Chase that was singing very softy to him self Ach, śpij, kochanie, jesli gwiazdke z nieba chcesz – dostaniesz. Wszystkie dzieci, nawet źle, pogrążone są we śnie, a ty jedna tylko nie. (Oh, sleep, my darling, If you'd like a star from the sky I'll give you one. All children, even the bad ones, Are already asleep, Only you are not). Donald could not help himself he knew without a doubt that Adam had sang that song to them when they were little just like Mary did all the time. Without thinking about it, he sang with Chase the next verse Chase sang it in Polish but I know what it is in English. -a-a, a-a-a, byly sobie kotki dwa. A-a-a, kotki dwa, szarobure, szarobure obydwa.(Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, There were once two little kittens. Ah-ah-ah, two little kittens, They were both grayish-brown.) Ach, śpij, bo wlaśnie księżyc ziewa i za chwilę zaśnie. A gdy rano przyjdzie świt księzycowi będzie wstyd, ze on zasnąl, a nie ty (Oh, sleep, because The moon is yawning and he will soon fall asleep. And when the morning comes He will be really ashamed, That he fell asleep and you did not.)

That song brought back old memoriesthought long and forgotten in Donald'smind. Mary Elinore Sherzicky, his old friend from high school that was the daughter of two Polish engagements, that ran an old jewelry story down in the old polish community down on the lower east side about 4 miles from them. Mary had come to work for him when he first built this big house. She was his housekeeper and only friend other than Eddy. She helped him make Eddy, and when he told her about his bionics there at the time she wanted to be a part of it. So she volunteered her eggs and her body to carry and raise the child at first. Adam she fell in love with at first sight and could not what to have Bree but she was so sick with Chase she just wanted to have him out. She loved and cared for all four of them to the day she died. He remembered them that she was always picked on because she could not read well and would switch her her dialect from English to Polish without knowing it. It was one of the thingsDonald liked at the time about her. Adam when little did the same thing but after the ascendent did not do it as often any more but when he does and only I seem to call him on it it upsets him.So, like Bree and Chase, I ignore it. So for he has not done it in front of Leo or Tasha that he know of, for that we was thankful for.

That got him thinking about did Mary have Dyslexia as well, and could Adam get it from her? He thought about it Dyslexia is not something he would of throughout about one of his children every having. Dyslexia is an impairment in your brain's ability to translate written images received from your eyes into meaningful language. Adam can comprehended most things but at a slower pass, he can writebut almost of what he does write is all phonological and he uses a lot of nonsense words. Adam is not dumbaccording to the IQ test that he has given him over the years and he is very interrelationwith others that Chase is. Could it all be because of the facade that Adam was around his mother and shill has some subconsciousmemory of is mother or something more. And what otherstradition could the kids have got from her that he didn't consideration before hand. That would require some more research into both her life and her family's.

Eddy had told MrsDavenport what rooms all three kids had taken, so when she went to look for Adam to make shore he was alright she was spirochete to that Adam had taken a room that was in the servingquietus of the house but figured that because Eddy was not in this part of the house is one of the reassures he choosiest.She shut the door but not all the way knowing that she was going to have to buy a night light because Adam didn't like the dark very well. As she was leaving the room she saw the door open on the other side of the hall walking over to it, the lights where on. She let out a small sight and a giggle as she looked a some of the pitchers on the walls. She decided that she was going to take some of the pitchers up to the main part of the house to hang up. She had pictures of her and Donald together all the children and Leo as a baby but not to know did she have one of the three bionics. She even took a picture of their mother with her to put up so all the children could see her. Tasha made a mental note to ask Donald about the kids mother.