The Time I Found Out I was Allergic to Shellfish

 Just a few years ago I wasn’t allergic to shellfish. That changed one night when we were eating shrimp noodles and crab. When I finished eating my food it was time for me to go to bed.

In the middle of the night I woke up and began to cough and spit up blood. I sent my younger cousin downstairs to tell the grownups. They were scared! My mom drove me down to urgent care. On the way I couldn’t breathe.

The doctors looked at my throat. They told my mother that I had to go to Duke hospital. I rode in the ambulance. The doctors looked down my throat. They said that it looked like something had scraped down my throat. They gave me medicine.

When I left the hospital I was fine. I am so lucky that I can still talk. This is the way I found out I was allergic to shellfish.  

 

By Latea