My Son Had a Surprising Allergy Scare After a Trip to the Beach

August 15, 2018

An allergy scare taught me a valuable lesson this summer.

I count myself so lucky because Jack doesn’t have any known allergies. Our best friend’s young daughter, Lily, 6, has severe allergies to peanuts and bees. If exposed, she’ll go into Anaphylactic shock (God Forbid) and need an injection from an EPI pen before going directly to the ER. It’s so scary! I truly…

Single mom Christine Coppa is the author of the Target Breakout Book, Rattled! (Broadway Books, 2009) and the founding blogger of glamour.com's acclaimed Storked! blog where she spilled it about navigating an unplanned pregnancy and single motherhood minus her son's father. You can also find her witty (and often controversial blogs) on parenting.com, babble.com and Nickmom.com A professional writer/editor, she's contributed to Glamour, Marie Claire (Australia), First for Women, In Touch, Parenting, Baby Talk, and Parents among other publications and notable websites. Her work has been buzzed about in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on ABC's 20/20. Coppa and her son represented the Yoplait Kids brand in 2011. The Sunday London Times called her a writer "at the forefront of a wave of modern moms who are reinventing the parental publishing genre." Coppa lives in North Jersey with her son Jack Domenic, 6 who is currently campaigning for a Golden Retriever puppy.