Pool Party; Disney World 2013; Peanut Allergies; Oscar Everest Vamos Darwish;

Finally, my Walt Disney World Family Vacation 2013 blog is done. Click here to view: Disney.

Pool Party
Thank you Kim and Pascal for having us for a pool party. The kids had a great time, swam a lot and played a lot. I should have had my phone at the pool though ;)

Girl with peanut allergy dies after taking bite of treat at California summer camp
"A 13-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died at a popular family summer camp in Sacramento after taking a bite of a Rice Krispies treat.

Natalie Giorgi died Saturday at Camp Sacramento after eating the snack, which had peanuts, even after her parents administered multiple doses of medicine, the Sacramento Bee reported.

A family friend told the Bee that Giorgi was diligent about her allergy, and spit out the treat right away after tasting peanuts."

I think about this every single day. Sabrina's disease is no joke (though some have treated it as such) and has more chances then most kids I know of being alive a minute, and dead the other. Furthermore, the epipen may not work. Any food she eats may be tainted. My heart is with Natalie Giorgi's family.

Oscar Everest Vamos Darwish
My friend Stephanie and her wife Jo welcomed their first son in this world today. I only met Stephanie a few times but at the 48h Tremblant I liked her right away: very competitive and very nerdy (look at the cool name). Congrats to both.

Family Past
Here is a picture of my mom when she was 7 years old. "Tu vois ma mère ne s'est vraiment pas occupé de moi dans un sens, elle me donnait ce que je voulait et comme je lisais beaucoup et j'avais beaucoup d'idées j'ai commencé jeune à me débrouiller et à Mtl c'est tellement facile tu as tout a porté de ta main, ma mère a voulu faire de moi un petit chien savant pourquoi je sais pas (c.était l'époque Shirley Temple et elle me coiffait comme elle)  à trois ans je prenais des cours de diction, et elle m'amenait à la piscine,au cinéma, j'ai vu tous les fims au Lowes, apres les cours de dance elle travaillais fort pour mon côté artistique, mais le sport, je passait mes été à la piscine et au  tennis, et à 10 ans j'allais magasiner dans'' l'ouest'' (pour moi c'est la définition des quartiers). Morgan, Eaton, etc j'allais retrouver Gisele qui travaillait chez Birks."

Even the mouse is cold; Peanut Allergy

Short Term ForecastUpdated: Thurs, Dec 29, 2011, 5:00 EST

	Thursday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM	Thursday AfternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM - 5:59 PM	Thursday EveningEvening: 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Thursday OvernightOvernight: 12:00 AM - 5:59 AM	Friday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM
	Sunny	Sunny	Clear	Cloudy periods	Cloudy with sunny breaks
Temp.	-16°C	-13°C	-14°C	-17°C	-14°C
Feels Like	-27	-21	-21	-25	-23
Wind	W 30km/h	W 30km/h	W 20km/h	NE 15km/h	NE 20km/h
Relative Humidity	71%	72%	78%	77%	72%
P.O.P.	0%	0%	0%	20%	40%

It's nippy this morning. Even the mouse is cold. And we're going skiing today. To mont St-Garceau. Up North. Two hours away. It's okay though we're going to have fun. Sabrina starts the day with a book, of course.

We get on the road about 8:00am, all anxious to be there. Passed Laval we start hearing the "Are we there yet?" and "Is it far?" but it's okay, we're on our way to ski on a hill that's twice the size of Mont St-Bruno, in St-Donat. We'll get there two hours later.

It's actually a nice little mountain. While the cold is bitter it's still livable and the first down is really nice, with both kids skiing down very steep hills like pros. From on top of the mountain we can see the beautiful lake whose name escapes me right now...

It's amazing how skewed the pictures are. On the last one, on top of the red line we can see the lake which from our vantage point was really low. Nice view.

On the second down, halfway through, Sabrina started complaining that she was not feeling well. Because Mathieu needed to move, he and Suzanne continued to the chalet while I stayed with Sabrina, waiting for her to get better.

She got worst.

She had nausea so we got close to the tree line just to make sure she didn't throw up on the middle of the slope. She was feeling so sick that...

... yup, she got a free ride down the mountain in a sleigh. It took her a while to get better at the infirmary but a good dose of oxygen and a good sleep in the car and she's now 120%.

The ski monitors were very nice, both were from Montreal skiing with their kids while helping others on the mountain. They helped Sabrina a lot, plus she was also examined by a doctor. We don't know what happened, but it's very similar to when she gets a wiff of peanut dust or something like that. Goes from happy to sick and tired in a few moments, then feels like throwing up.

Four hours of driving... two runs down the mountain.

These holidays we've found a new level of appreciation on how serious Sabrina's condition is.

Search Results: December 29 , 2011Montreal Downtown

Max Temp: -13.9 °C

Min Temp: -18.4 °C

Mean Temp: -16.1 °C

Precip Accumulation: 1.2 mm 

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Dinner Party; Snow Storm; Peanut Allergy

Short Term ForecastUpdated: Tues, Dec 27, 2011, 5:00 EST

	Tuesday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM	Tuesday AfternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM - 5:59 PM	Tuesday EveningEvening: 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Tuesday OvernightOvernight: 12:00 AM - 5:59 AM	Wednesday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM
	Cloudy with sunny breaks	Scattered flurries	Mixed precip.	Rain	Scattered flurries
Temp.	-2°C	1°C	1°C	1°C	0°C
Feels Like	-8	-4	-4	-4	-6
Wind	S 20km/h	S 20km/h	S 25km/h	N 35km/h	W 35km/h
Relative Humidity	80%	93%	100%	64%	93%
P.O.P.	30%	40%	100%	100%	40%
Rain	-	-	less than 1mm	5-10mm	-
Snow	-	less than 1 cm	5-10 cm	-	less than 1 cm

We're expecting a snow storm tonight. It's good 'cause we need snow. Lots of it.

We again when skiing this morning. We had a great time. Mathieu and Sabrina are really good skiers and Sabrina was good at going down a single diamond.

We had a great dinner party with Frank and Melanie

Sabrina got two great books from Melanie and family. The gifts were given before bedtime. By the time it was lights out, she'd read 31 pages out of the first book.

About 4 hours after she went to bed, and a few minutes after I did, Sabrina was violently ill. She threw up a lot, a telltale sign of her having been in contact with a food that does not agree with her. Now, since she's the only one who got sick, and there were some ingredients we were so-so sure with, our best bet is that she came in contact with peanuts.

After reading a bit of the excellent magazine Allergic Living, we came to the conclusion that we were becoming too lax with peanuts thus decided to tighten the screw as we used to do. We got rid of all things in the house that may be contaminated with peanuts.

It's really not a joke.

Search Results: December 27 , 2011Montreal Downtown

Max Temp: 3.2 °C

Min Temp: -1.4 °C

Mean Temp: 0.9 °C

Precip Accumulation: 14.1 mm 

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