By 6:00am today, our village was working together across the globe. Well before the sun rose in Nevada, a message was being sent from Africa from one of our local food allergy and asthma advocates and mom. She is overseas working and living and was about to board a plane to another country as part of her graduate studies. Her daughter was hospitalized only hours earlier with pneumonia. Dad was managing the situation, but needed guidance on how to navigate these new waters–including updating his child’s 504 plan to accommodate recovery and school work.
Come sunrise our sleepy little food allergy community was in action. Names and contacts were being shared, a family whose child was recently in the hospital for the same condition was sharing advice on the right verbiage to use to make sure the dad receive the attention needed. Thankfully, our local support group has a wonderful relationship with the pediatric ward as we always share our prizes from our events with the children in the hospital (no food for those kids too). Dad was able to meet up with our contact and she helped him to understand the process and offered support. Another mom jumped in to help with school information.
It is a beautiful thing to watch people come together and offer kindness and guidance when needed. I personally received support in the past when I needed it most and am honored to pay it forward. I was especially inspired today when others rubbed their sleepy eyes and jumped it to help well before they had their morning Java. The good news is that our lovely little lady is being released and heading home with a dad who is not alone!
I am extremely grateful for my village and am in awe of the hero mom in this story who knew she could activate her village. Too often we don’t want to be a bother, yet all parties in this story dove in to play a small part that found solutions.
Thank you to everyone who is part of someone with food allergies and asthma’s village.
It Truly Takes A Village.
p.s.this post was written by Caroline, not Rutilio, I posted from my iPad and somehow signed in as Rutilio-my wonderful web guru.
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