We apologise for our insensitivity. We had never heard of celiac's disease or its dangers. In our ignorance, we misused the phrase "gluten-free", not knowing its real meaning and connection to the genetic disease, Celiac's. We feel awful that our careless and ill-informed use of words has caused you and your family pain. Your letter and many others have served to educate. We can only assume that lots of people are in the dark about celiac's and the issues you and your family face. We do intend to educate ourselves with all the information we received so that we can add our voices to the chorus of the informed about this subject ( rather then the point of view of the ignorant and stupid which we represented so adequately).
I am a mother myself and there is no way I would knowingly shun a kid with a genetic disease. In our O piece, which is meant to be humorous, we tried to poke fun at a mother who is overly vigilant about her child's diet, in a "no white sugar" kind of way. Obviously, we were way off base on the real implications of the phrase "gluten-free". Again, my deepest apologies. And my best wishes for your son's continued good health.
Lian Dolan
the youngest sister
ATTN: FReepers... maybe I took this a little too personal because we deal with this issue everyday, having to educate people when we eat at restaurants and get strange looks when we explain how we need 1 meal prepared "separately" etc..etc....
the purpose of this thread was to educate.. and I think we were successful.. my apologies to anyone who was bothered by the ping to this thread.. I will remove those of you who requested to be removed...
FReegards,
David
We apologise for our insensitivity. We had never heard of celiac's disease or its dangers. In our ignorance, we misused the phrase "gluten-free", not knowing its real meaning and connection to the genetic disease, Celiac's. We feel awful that our careless and ill-informed use of words has caused you and your family pain. Your letter and many others have served to educate. We can only assume that lots of people are in the dark about celiac's and the issues you and your family face. We do intend to educate ourselves with all the information we received so that we can add our voices to the chorus of the informed about this subject ( rather then the point of view of the ignorant and stupid which we represented so adequately).
I am a mother myself and there is no way I would knowingly shun a kid with a genetic disease. In our O piece, which is meant to be humorous, we tried to poke fun at a mother who is overly vigilant about her child's diet, in a "no white sugar" kind of way. Obviously, we were way off base on the real implications of the phrase "gluten-free". Again, my deepest apologies. And my best wishes for your son's continued good health.
Lian Dolan
the youngest sister
ATTN: FReepers... maybe I took this a little too personal because we deal with this issue everyday, having to educate people when we eat at restaurants and get strange looks when we explain how we need 1 meal prepared "separately" etc..etc....
the purpose of this thread was to educate.. and I think we were successful.. my apologies to anyone who was bothered by the ping to this thread.. I will remove those of you who requested to be removed...
FReegards,
David