This is the time of year when I renew the kids’ epinephrine auto injectors and line up new allergy action plans for camps and the next school year.  

In my quest to get everything lined up I realized this was the perfect topic for this blog.

I started recently using the CVS Caremark app to keep track of prescription refills. We need to have fresh auto injectors at our kids camps/school, at home and for sports activities. We’re in the process of swapping out all of these for new ones as they expire after a year.

I don’t know what to do with the pile of expired ones, though. Any ideas? We may try out doing injections on an orange just to test it out. But we’ll still have a bunch leftover.  

 Meanwhile, as we travel this summer to a variety of new places, I found an amazing app to help you find care in case of an emergency: FindER app. It gives you a quick readout of all nearby ERs with directions. My only additional wish would be to add the ability to see if they have pediatric treatment specialists.