BorealChickadee
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My yearly trip to Acadia this year had a bit of a twist when I walked into LLBean but had to go out on a stretcher.
As some know, I have food allergies and after the long ride to Freeport, I was hungry and tired. I'm going to blame my lapse of care on the two hours of stop and go traffic through what should have been ten minutes of New Hampshire. I let down my guard and ate a hot dog(might have been the sauerkraut fumes at the vendor) from a street vendor in Freeport and twenty minutes later in Bean's my body gave up. Within 45 seconds of the first symptom my hands and feet were numb, my chest was closing, I was totally disoriented and struggled to get the epipen out of my pocketbook. I remember trying twice to get the gray cap off. I was told later that the "good heart" call went out and an entire team responded in Bean's. I really couldn't have picked a better place to go down. Bean's customer service has always been the best! I've never had worse anaphylactic shock. After the first dose of epinephrine my blood pressure was something over 31, my hands and feet were a deep blue, my blood sugar was swinging and I was out of it. Fortunately the Freeport rescue carries cardiac epinephrine which does not have sulfites like the epipen and more epinephrine enroute to the hospital did the trick. Paul and his girlfriend would still have to put up with me for the remainder of the trip. Spent the next day sleeping until 4 pm and managed to get 3 or 4 fairly good days out of the week's vacation. I came home feeling as puffed up as a StayPuft Marshmallow Man due to the IV prednisone and pills all week.
So I brought home a chipped tooth, scratched glasses, an ambulance and hospital bill and some pictures. Oh, and some great Mountain Hardwear shorts and pants from the factory outlet!
Pictures aren't as good this year. My camera isn't the same after being fixed.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=k9z7mf1.8cugygvh&Uy=q3w1j4&Ux=0
There was an amazing collection of birds in a traveling exhibit at the birdcarving museum in Southwest Harbor. Check out the redhead duck and sanderlings in the pictures.
If anyone has a package of Hanaford hotdogs could they PM me the ingredients? I need to find out if there's sulfites I don't know about or a new allergy has developed.
And there's probably someone out there who works at Beans. Thanks guys!
As some know, I have food allergies and after the long ride to Freeport, I was hungry and tired. I'm going to blame my lapse of care on the two hours of stop and go traffic through what should have been ten minutes of New Hampshire. I let down my guard and ate a hot dog(might have been the sauerkraut fumes at the vendor) from a street vendor in Freeport and twenty minutes later in Bean's my body gave up. Within 45 seconds of the first symptom my hands and feet were numb, my chest was closing, I was totally disoriented and struggled to get the epipen out of my pocketbook. I remember trying twice to get the gray cap off. I was told later that the "good heart" call went out and an entire team responded in Bean's. I really couldn't have picked a better place to go down. Bean's customer service has always been the best! I've never had worse anaphylactic shock. After the first dose of epinephrine my blood pressure was something over 31, my hands and feet were a deep blue, my blood sugar was swinging and I was out of it. Fortunately the Freeport rescue carries cardiac epinephrine which does not have sulfites like the epipen and more epinephrine enroute to the hospital did the trick. Paul and his girlfriend would still have to put up with me for the remainder of the trip. Spent the next day sleeping until 4 pm and managed to get 3 or 4 fairly good days out of the week's vacation. I came home feeling as puffed up as a StayPuft Marshmallow Man due to the IV prednisone and pills all week.
So I brought home a chipped tooth, scratched glasses, an ambulance and hospital bill and some pictures. Oh, and some great Mountain Hardwear shorts and pants from the factory outlet!
Pictures aren't as good this year. My camera isn't the same after being fixed.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=k9z7mf1.8cugygvh&Uy=q3w1j4&Ux=0
There was an amazing collection of birds in a traveling exhibit at the birdcarving museum in Southwest Harbor. Check out the redhead duck and sanderlings in the pictures.
If anyone has a package of Hanaford hotdogs could they PM me the ingredients? I need to find out if there's sulfites I don't know about or a new allergy has developed.
And there's probably someone out there who works at Beans. Thanks guys!
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Truly a great company. 
