Most of RN MARKET's clients know about Veronica's hypersensitivity to natural Latex. However, Veronica is not the only one dealing with this type of hypersensitivity to natural Latex. According to the American Latex Allergy Association, 8-17% of healthcare workers and 68% of children with spina bifida and people undergoing multiple surgeries are allergic to natural Latex. That totals less than 1% of the general public in the US. However, that 1% is about 3 million people. These statistics are outdated but that is still a pretty significant amount of people to suffer with this allergy. Yet, nothing has been done by lawmaking bodies. Current statistics would show more people suffering from this allergy. Many Latex allergy cases still go undiagnosed. Because RN MARKET's clientele is healthcare industry workers, a large majority of those clients suffer from the same type of allergy as Veronica.

Because of the large number of people getting severe reactions to natural Latex, Ryan and Veronica decided to do their part in educating the general public and law makers of the effects of Latex overexposure and why there needs to be a change in the way Latex is used. This is why LatexAllergyInfo.com was created.

I am going to die soon. I need to tell my story and I hope that America listens and reacts to my story to save other people’s lives. My mother always told me that I can save the world, that one voice matters, that every vote counts, that I could be whatever I want if I just put my mind to it. My mother is no longer here to tell me those things.

I call what I have a disease. I have a disease that I have to face alone. No one understands it. No one can save me. Not doctors, not nurses, not paramedics, and not the emergency room or even a hospital. Most people who have my disease do not even know that they have it. Most people who have my disease will die from it and it will never be known what the cause of death was for those people. The statistics are lost on these people and not registered. In order for my disease to become known and for other people to be saved, reports need to be made to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the Center for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health, and Departments of Health. There are people dying from my disease on a daily basis and the numbers that are lost will increase everyday. Thousands of people across America have died from this but not enough people have been reported with this disease for there to be a difference.

If a reporter is taken in Iraq in a war and held hostage, America listens. America feels sorry for this reporter and we report what is happening and we do everything in our power to negotiate and get that reporter back. If a dog is missing, signs are posted and a search and rescue by the neighborhood is done and we get that dog back. If Paris Hilton drinks a Margarita at a charity event, we plaster her face on every news channel and every paper in America. She is newsworthy. I am not news. My disease is not news and the thousands of Americans who have died from my disease are not yet worth saving.

My worst fear is the torture of a severe reaction. I have problems breathing initially. The airways in my lungs become constricted within seconds. My voice will become raspy; my throat tight. If someone were watching as this happened, they would say that I was having an asthma attack. This isn’t just asthma. The oxygen in my system rapidly depletes since I can not take in a breath. I begin to collapse and loose coherency like someone who is passing out. I am dying and there is nothing that can be done for me. If anyone calls for paramedics, they will not make it in time. By the time the paramedics make it there to treat me, it is too late. Some paramedics even make the issue worse. Most have not dealt with an illness like mine before. They may be there to help me but they can speed up my death without even knowing. In less than a few minutes I am incoherent due to lack of oxygen. If I do not get help soon, I will be dead. Anybody who watches my death would not have a clue as to what happened. When the cause of my death is determined, it would most likely be blamed on something else. I am not ready to die. My life has a purpose. The world still has a lot to learn from me and this may be what is keeping me alive.

After my first attack, I knew I had to be smart if I wanted to survive. Being smart includes being prepared. In my purse is an arsenal of medications to help keep me alive. I have inhalers to loosen up my lungs, several types of antihistamines sold by prescription and over the counter, and an epipen which is adrenaline used for emergencies. I go to bed at night wondering if I will get through the night. I can not breathe on a nightly basis. I have to take antihistamines everyday of my life or I will stop breathing. I can not walk into a doctor’s office, a hospital, or an emergency room for help even though that is where I saved many lives. No one can save mine. There is nothing that can be done to help me.

Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet are American. I am American but I can not go to a baseball game and enjoy a hot dog, I can not eat most apple pies and I can not sit in a new Chevrolet.

The Web sites on the Internet and material that is out there on my disease is outdated. I know more about my disease than the FDA, CDC, Departments of Health and the National Institutes of Health. What they all have on the subject of my disease is outdated by many years. Why do I know more about my disease than they do? I wrote about what happened to me in several of the books that I have published and people across America have contacted me who have my disease. They have my exact symptoms not the symptoms that you find online or in publications. Those are old. When someone writes a story about my disease, they will extract every study ever done that they can find and then they will write an article on it. It will list references to studies that were done years and years ago but the article will not be current. The material they are using is not current but they are writing a current article? The facts on my disease have not been able to be reported.

Can one person really make a difference? Well, let’s put that theory to the test. I am not a reporter in Iraq, I am not a lost puppy, and I am not Paris Hilton. Who am I? I represent every person who has ever worked in a hospital, every firefighter, every police officer, every restaurant worker, every crop picker, every child on the playground and every person that eats in a restaurant. My life has changed other people’s lives, I am important enough to save and I should be newsworthy. What I have to say needs to be told. I promise you that I can save almost everyone who has my disease if the people who make decisions will want to listen to me. There is a simple cure but the FDA, CDC, Departments of Health, and the National Institutes of Health want more people to die and more statistics reported before they will listen even though they know that this disease does exist and that they have the power to save it.