What: The Teenage Take on Anaphylaxis

I'm a peanut anaphylactic, and I made this video for an awareness video contest at my school. It was a last minute effort, but I enjoyed doing it. These are all my friends, and I hope you all enjoy it.

My high school had a poor policy for dealing with anaphylaxis until I had an anaphylactic reaction in the middle of English class, after touching my desk. I have a rare skin disorder that makes me very at risk of having a touch reaction. It had been in second reaction in the school, and they figured that enough was enough. Only two days later, a supply teacher had an anaphylactic reaction while teaching their class.

My parents were outraged, and demanded that something be done. After meeting with the principal, they organized an assembly of Dec 4th, 2009. They organized a video and poster contest, and we got my allergist to agree to come and educate the students at my high school. I thought things were going well, until I saw that no entries had been made for the contest. Since my parents helped to organize it, I hadn't planned on entering the contest. 2 days before the video due date, I decided that I would enter.

I want to be a documentary director, and I hope you all think that I could do it. This is amateur camera work, and it's a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, windows-media-player, could-have-been-better video. But I want everyone's feedback, please.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• anaphylaxis
• deadly
• allergy
• allergies
• peanut