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My sister is extremely allergic to peanuts.

She used to get various allergy shots as a young child, which she hated with a passion.

We’re both grateful that airlines stopped serving peanuts as onboard snack, as even the fumes would make her eyes swell up and close shut, along with other problems.

My sister used to merely vomit as a young child if she swallowed a peanut.

She didn’t start going into anaphylactic shock and need immediate trips to the doctor for a dose of epinephrine until she approached her teenage years.

She did not enjoy the experience.

This is part of why I was ticked off at the the pricing of the Epi-pens, and the fact that they insisted you buy two at a time, and their “use by” dates. She is so extremely careful about what she eats that there is no chance that she will need TWO epi-pens a year, let alone one. It seems like pure price gouging or usury in that the company that sells them required that you had to buy two in order to get any.

My sister is so careful that she has never had to use any epi-pens, so that is pure profit to the drug company for her to have any on hand “just in case.”