[End Times Sentinel]

I used to have a latex allergy.  When I'd use dish gloves, and touch my eyes later, they'd swell shut.  It took 4 months before I realized what it was, but I'll be damned if I was going to let that allergy ruin my life.  I continued to use the gloves and then deliberately touched my eyes afterwards.  I nearly went blind and to this day I can't wear contacts and am no longer a candidate for laser eye correction.  Eventually, I gave up and just washed the dishes without gloves (today, I have my kids do it) but I gave those gloves a lesson in persistence they'll not soon forget, and I'm better the man for it.

 

Owl_Eagle

"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"

-Hillary Clinton

(Yes, she really said that

Peggy Noonan

The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

[HenryLeeII]

I'll be damned if I was going to let that allergy ruin my life. I continued to use the gloves and then deliberately touched my eyes afterwards. I nearly went blind and to this day I can't wear contacts and am no longer a candidate for laser eye correction. Eventually, I gave up and just washed the dishes without gloves (today, I have my kids do it) but I gave those gloves a lesson in persistence they'll not soon forget, and I'm better the man for it.

Exactly! I say slip a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup in the kid's lunch bag each day, then up it to two when he can handle the first one, and get him over it that way. Besides, as recent research has shown, 97.839% of all allergies are psychosomatic, so slip the kid some PB without him knowing about it, and chances are he'll be fine!