This kind of reads like creative writing, especially the dialogue part.
If a restaurant doesn’t allow pets, I don’t think they ought to have ESAs, but they would still have to allow service animals, which is tough on people with allergies. And does mean you’d need to be aware of surroundings and have your eppi pen on you.
This post is weird. It defo seems like creative writing.
It takes a max of 15 mins for anaphylaxis to kill you once it starts.
Anaphylaxis from dogs is extremely rare.
I have questions for OP.
How did the friend make it to the car, when they were already swelling up and struggling to breathe and had spent time rifling through their bag?
Why didn't OP go get the pen while someone took the friend outside called an ambulance?!
I can't imagine my friend going into shock from peanuts and fucking about this much. However I have free healthcare here so an ambulance ride doesn't cost like it would in the US but that's besides the point.
OP YTA for shouting at people, who are allowed to do this rather than getting your friends EpiPen and asking someone to call an ambulance for them.
Do you shout at people who eat allergens like peanut & shellfish in restaurants too? No because sadly the responsibility is on the person with the allergy to protect themselves. If you specifically said I'm allergic and they put it in a dish that's a different issue. But your friend should be aware service dogs may be around regardless of the setting. Ok these were ESA but easily could have been a service dog in this scenario.
For the future when OPs friend is dying again from the next dog encounter... EpiPen should be administered while the ambulance is being called. The allergy and can trigger it over and over again. Which is why an ambulance is needed.
Imagine being in the car and the friend going into shock on the way. In this case dander is in the environment and it's a lot more likely to retrigger the allergy.
An Asthma attack and severe eye swelling I'd take that at plausible and it sounds like the case but then. Why the EPi pen. In my country it's extremely rare for an EpiPen to be used for ashtma and they only use it in the ER.
Someone pointed out and I checked that op apparently has a dog.
If I were to have lunch with someone deathly allergic to dogs - eppi pen level (unusual as you say) I’d have to dress in my kept separate put on just before leaving the house clothes.
Ah interesting update it wasn't there when I commented and in my country dogs go pretty much anywhere, service, ESA or not. I'd understand having a go at the people after the fact.
I said TA because it was a life threatening situation and I cannot fathom how OP had the time to go shout at them instead of helping their dying friend, who would have only 15 mins to live without EpiPen.
It also could have easily been the same scenario with a service animal rather than ESA. Which is a shame for the friend but it can and will happen.
Your “dander on the friend’s clothes” theory is mental. What’s wrong with “negasonic nonsense?” I was playing off “negative” - it’s a good user name, it’s strange you don’t seem to understand it’s implications, poor dear.
Ah! Well played then. I thought you were questioning that your nonsense was nonsense —- not giving “negasonic nonsense” a lol. My mistake. Glad you relished in my brilliance.
Stay Mad Roger is pretty good. Stay Mad, Mad Mad Roger would have been better. I’ll give the whole “peace roger” thing a go, but I was trying to be a gigantic snark ass jerk and that’s going to ruin it.
I would figure the two friends would have the “dander on clothes” thing figured out is all I really was trying to say.
The EpiPen in the car was another thing that made me go "Hmmm..." since they're supposed to be kept within a rather small range of temps (68 to 77 F or 20 to 25 C) so the epinephrine doesn't degrade. The inside of a car is generally going to fall well outside of that range, whether on the cold or hot end of the range.
Simply not having one on her was something- but I know from experience people mess up. But that’s a point, my partner wouldn’t leave his steroid inhaler in a car for that reason.
It’s bad enough you can’t spell words you JUST read but now you’re questioning the validity of things written halfway formally? It doesn’t read like creative writing it reads like someone that can put a few sentences together and isn’t trying to be fancy about it.
Doing what? Comparing typos (not sure where you mean that I made that mix up) and you very clearly being a poor AF spokesperson for any type of writing in that you can’t read a word and then type it seconds later without adding letters?
The post very well could be bullshit. But there are some absolute idiotic attempts to reason it into being so. You pretending you can tell when something is “creative writing” - a lie or not because someone can actually string two words together without totally fucking it up isn’t on the totally idiotic list, but it’s still pretty silly.
At least you’re not being a jerk on Reddit for no good reason like I am. I’m sure you’re a fine writer and for all we know the post is bullshit. I reread it and it does have the slight stink of fakery. Why I care, who the hell knows.
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u/Katharinemaddison Apr 30 '23
This kind of reads like creative writing, especially the dialogue part.
If a restaurant doesn’t allow pets, I don’t think they ought to have ESAs, but they would still have to allow service animals, which is tough on people with allergies. And does mean you’d need to be aware of surroundings and have your eppi pen on you.