{"id":2506,"date":"2011-11-22T17:15:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2011-11-27T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T14:53:59","slug":"the-c-a-i-a-family-affair-for-anaphylaxis-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2506","title":{"rendered":"The C.A.I. &#8211; a family affair for anaphylaxis awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_3531.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2507\" title=\"IMG_3531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_3531-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_3531-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_3531-1024x701.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Canadian Anaphylaxis Initiative (CAI) is a family affair that has at its core\u00a0concerned mothers \u2013 Debbie Bruce, Gladys Vergis-Mayo, Cindy Paskey and Mindi Ferkul. These four mothers work tiredlessly at the many CAI volunteer activities.<\/p>\n<p>The George\u00a0Family is so pleased to be a part of the CAI and its\u00a0efforts on behalf of\u00a0our children and loved ones who have severe, life-threatening allergies. We are pleased to be working with\u00a0families across Canada who are raising anaphylaxis issues with MPs and federal bureaucrats.<\/p>\n<p>Currently we are urging people to connect with their MPs \u2013 and you can learn more about how to help the CAI cause on its\u00a0website: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cai-allergies.ca\/\">http:\/\/cai-allergies.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What are the issues? There\u00a0are the 5-policy points: <a href=\"http:\/\/cai-allergies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/CAI_5points.pdf\">http:\/\/cai-allergies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/CAI_5points.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the popular OneSpot Allergy blog, written by Elizabeth Goldenberg, posted an article on the initiative &#8211; <em>The CAI Requests Your Help\u00a0.\u00a0 <\/em>Read it here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.onespotallergy.com\/2011\/11\/the-canadian-anaphylaxis-initiative-requests-your-help\/\">http:\/\/blog.onespotallergy.com\/2011\/11\/the-canadian-anaphylaxis-initiative-requests-your-help\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anaphylaxis is a very serious matter for tens of thousands of Canadian families \u2013\u00a0including\u00a0a\u00a0rising number of children with serve allergies to peanuts, nuts, milk and other allergens. You can help this awareness effort that is aimed at making our society more informed and safer. Contact the CAI and get involved.<\/p>\n<p>Visit:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cai-allergies.ca\/\">http:\/\/cai-allergies.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Anaphylaxis Initiative (CAI) is a family affair that has at its core\u00a0concerned mothers \u2013 Debbie Bruce, Gladys Vergis-Mayo, Cindy Paskey and Mindi Ferkul. These four mothers work tiredlessly at the many CAI volunteer activities. The George\u00a0Family is so pleased to be a part of the CAI and its\u00a0efforts on behalf of\u00a0our children and loved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}