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     Thursday was an ordinary morning, nothing much out of the usual, other than the fact that I woke up at 5:30 a.m. instead of the customary 8:00 or 8:30. My first thought was to check the public school cancellations. Not becuse our homeschooling hinges on what the public school is doing, but because ds16 goes to a class at a vocational school in the area and I needed to know whether or not I would have to drive him.

     We had a major storm on Wednesday that cancelled school for the day and the cancellations carried over into Thursday. My husband, who shovels snow in the winter for several clients was up and out the door early. He came back around 10:00 to pick up ds16 so he could help him chip ice, as it had rained on top of the snow and then froze again.

     About an hour later the phone rings. DS 16 is on the other end and says, "I just heard on the news that Peter Pan peanut butter has been contaminated with Salmonella. The serial number on the bottles begins with 2111."

     Okay, I'm thinking, I'll go check the peanut butter we have in the cupboard. Sure enough, the dreaded numbers were on the bottle. The bottle was open because not 1/2 an hour before ds4 wanted toast and always eats peanut butter on his toast.

     For some, panic may have set in, but it didn't for me. I really wasn't overly concerned. I attribute it now to God's presence and peace. However, my husband wanted me to call our doctor to see if we could take any preventative measures to prevent ds4 from getting sick. Her office closed at noon, so I called ER. They gave me the number for poison control. I called poison control and they said there was nothing we could do but wait and see if he gets sick. Not really comforting, but nonetheless all we could do.

     I decided to check online and found that 300 people in 39 states had been sick and many hospitalized. One entire family got sick from the peanut butter. So we waited. ds4 went out to play with dd8 and came in crying because his hands were too cold. He started  coughing and said his tummy felt horrible. I sent dd8 to get a trash can and again we waited. False Alarm. He didn't get sick that night, or the next, and now it's Sunday and still no sign of illness. The poison control center said it could take up to two days. We're on our third and I believe out of the woods. PRAISE GOD!

     DS4 eats peanut butter all the time, peanut butter toast for breakfast, and peanut butter sandwiches for lunch and supper, as well as peanut butter crackers for snack. He is getting better though and starting to try other foods.

     We had that peanut butter in the house for three and 1/2 days before I opened it. I had only given him a tablespoon or less on one piece of toast before I recieved the call and immediately threw it out. We easily go through a whole jar of peanut butter in the time that that particular jar was in the house. I believe with all my heart that God protected us by keeping us from opening that particular jar, and by using so little of it before we heard the news of it's possible contamination.

Praise God! We are protected by the blood of Jesus.

Blessings,
Theresa
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Thanks for stopping by my blog. That is so good that your son didn't get sick. Praise the Lord!

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We, too, here in SC, had a jar of the problem peanut butter. The only thing was that by the time we got the info we had eaten the whole jar. God was watching over us for sure. No one got sick at all.

Thanks for stopping by my blog! We had that PB too. We had eaten about 3/4 of it. We didn't get sick though. I'm glad your little one is well, too. PTL!

Blessings!
Sharity

HI!

Thank you for stopping by and visiting Home's Cool Academy...

That must have been a sinking feeling reading the numbers and seeing the match. Thankfully, your son was spared any complications... You are obviously (as are others who have posted here) a prayer warrior - as it seems the Lord had a hedge of protection around your son before he ate the PB : )

How cool that your friends son is attending FullSail - do you know what his major is? Maybe he is in my son's class -- wouldn't that be "small world"?

It is a tough school...there is not alot of time for goofing off... the turnover ratio is high... evident by the sad news I got today that one of my son's classmates committed suicide - he went missing early last week after he failed a test, then, they found him on Saturday...it really hit my son hard, we had a big convo about leaning into the Lord, more than ever, and witnessing to his classmates, not only by their words, but by their actions, by thier attitude...this young man had no hope left...

I was happy to hear your prayers worked!! When I heard the news... I thought peanut butter? How odd!
I would think manufacturing such a thing would be mostly automated... hard to imagine where the contamination would come from.

I enjoyed your blog... very informative - you would be great at writing the Tip of the Day. Tia lets a different HSBlogger do it each month - Just email her and offer to write it... I did and am writing the ones for February : )

Blessings
Annointed

Thanks for visiting my blog. It's been a pleasure to visit yours. I'm so glad it sounds as if your little fellow missed out on a serious bout of salmonella. You reacted far more calmly than I would have done. I hate health issues, particularly ones that could have been avoided.
My oldest son actually has one of those very serious, potentially fatal allergies to peanut so we never have peanut butter, but I remember how delicious we all thought it was when I was little.
Regards,
Paula

Praise the Lord! I'm glad that everything worked out well :)

I never buy Peter Pan, but it was on sale and well I bought it....and we all ate it. It was empty and picked up my the trash before the alert was sounded. All were fine, and thankful we bless our food (:
Because of Jesus, Bobbie

Praise God he is well!