Deborah,
Thanks for reminding me and I'm sure many more that haughty attitudes and
closed minds sometimes rise to the top in the professional world.  If
this was a gifted person, they would welcome your insights and engage a
discussion.  People with milk and other allergies are first seen as
having other "problems".  To be believed is a basic issue here.  I don't
feel that you are going overboard.  If I had blind faith in professional
health care in 1972 I would still be eating lots of dairy products since
I "certainly didn't have any milk tolerance problems".
Perhaps you could offer the person a class in e-mail do's and don'ts.
They certainly need some training.

Thanks for sharing the gaff.

Kris

In a message dated 08/25/97 19:05 you write:

>Dear Friends,
>
>I thought you might be interested in what happened when I e-mailed the
>home economists at the University of Missouri--Columbia about Missouri
>Mix.  I basically thanked them for producing the recipe/mix.  I told them
>how it made my life easier as a mother of a milk allergic child.  then I
>suggested that they CONSIDER adding an addendum to their recipe at its
>next revision explaining how the recipe could be altered for people with
>food allergies.  I specifically told them what I used, name of the
>product, company name, address, etc.
>
>I was very disappointed with the reply I got.  First of all the woman
>accidently e-mailed me a copy of the e-mail she intended to go to her
>co-worker.  It essentially said she would send me a "nice letter" that
>said thanks but no thanks if her co-worker agreed.  The next day I
>received the intended e-mail.  She claimed that because we are simply
>parents of milk allergic parents and few in numbers it wasn't worth their
>effort to distribute this information.  She also hinted at the fact that
>the altered recipe was not valid.
>
>I am going overboard by being upset??  I also said in my e-mail that if
>they didn't see fit to publish the information, perhaps they could retain
>the information for any milk allergic persons who asked for help in the
>future.  I am upset because I found something that worked for me.  I
>shared it here and you people were helped too (and happy to get the
>information).  To me, this is a fine example about how the rest of the
>world needs to be educated about milk and other food allergies.
>
>Thanks for letting me vent!!!!!!! :)
>
>Deborah
>


Experience may be the best teacher, but It's often late to school.