Transcript
Kelly (0:02)
Welcome to the carpool podcast with Kelly. Like, if I was with somebody and they ordered anchovies on their pizza, like, I would think certain things about them. So, like, it's just nice that I can be like, oh, no, I'm allergic. Like, that's disgusting. I'm allergic. Like, it's just kind of something kind of chic.
Liz (0:16)
And Liz sips and sourdough party obsessed. I'll give you your own starter, teach you how to keep it alive and how to make a sourdough loaf just in time for soup season.
Kelly (0:27)
Your mom time off starts now. Welcome back to the carpool podcast. Oh. With Kelly and Liz and my EpiPen.
Liz (0:41)
The EpiPen is always with us. Now it's Kelly, Liz, and EpiPen.
Kelly (0:50)
Hi, everyone. This is, like, my first, like, any remotely esque social. I'm gonna. It's gonna be a rough episode for me.
Liz (1:01)
Let's start at the beginning. For those who don't know. Well, you. If you do know, because you listened to this podcast, you talked about how you're on a brand trip and you tried an anchovy, and you kind of had, like, a weird reaction.
Kelly (1:13)
Yeah.
Liz (1:14)
And then. And then last week, Kelly was making her family a Caesar salad without the intention to eat it herself. But, like, you know when you're doing, like, one of those salad kits and, like, dressing always gets on your hands, like, inevitably, Kelly licked some off of her finger. And you did go into anaphylactic. You were going. I don't know the terminology of allergies. You were going into anaphylactic.
Kelly (1:38)
I have learned so much. So, yes, I was not intending to eat. My. My plan was I was going to try to get in with an allergist and just avoid anchovies and. Because I think. I think that's what it is, because I've had everything else that Caesar dressing is made up of, like, I've been having regularly. So I think it is. And an anchovy allergy is not. It's not a crazy thing to develop, especially for, like, women in their 30s. And I did it. And then, I mean, it was like, oh, that was a bad idea. And I, like, let everything sit for a few minutes. But then I noticed that, like, I wasn't having, like, the same, like, lip swelling, because I think that actually would have calmed me down. But instead I started to feel like my tongue was getting big and I started to get a lot of anxiety. And then I feel like I started to feel like I was having trouble, like, filling my lungs, like, not Necessarily breathing, but, like, catching a deep breath. And I mean, transparently, like, it was me and Tyler and our four kids alone. Like, thank goodness Tyler was there, but Tyler was outside with the big kids. I had Libby inside. So I walked out to Tyler, and I was like, I think I'm having an allergic reaction. You take Libby. I'm gonna go take some Benadryl. And I was like. And come inside with me, because I was just, like, getting a little nervous. Took the Benadryl, waited, like, five, 10 minutes, and I'm like, it's not getting better. Like, I think it's getting worse. And I honestly, like, there was a level of. It's like, like, anxiety, I think, has played a huge role in just exactly, like, how bad my reaction was. And, like, now that I'm, like, kind of on the other side of it, I mean, I'm definitely happy I went to the er, and I definitely do think I needed all of the measures that they gave me, but I was also okay. Like, I. I was okay. I wasn't, like, not. I was not down to the wire. Like, my tongue was getting big. Like, I was what I would swallow. I could, like, feel it felt like there was something. Like, I felt like I was swallowing, like, around things, you know? And there was. I mean. Yeah, I mean, there's just something that's so stressful about, like, you have four young kids. Tyler's, like, trying to load them all up into the car. I'm trying to, like, catch a deep breath. I'm trying not to freak the kids out. I mean, it was genuinely, like, super, like, it was just like, that in itself was super traumatizing and post. Like, it's just been, like, a harder recovery, which I guess is normal. You know, like, when you go into anaphylactic, it's like it's your immune system freaking out. And then the epipen, like, does what it's supposed to do, but it also just, like, sends your immune system haywire. So, like, still a lot of flu, like, symptoms. Still kind of trouble. Like, totally talking and catching my breath. I'm also on some steroids right now, which suck. I mean, ew, like, disgusting. I thought, like, steroids are supposed to, like.