Well this is something.

Country music star Trace Adkins participated in the popular reality TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice", with the hopes of winning a $250,000 donation for the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network yet he lost. So what did Adkins offer FAAN instead? He has pledged to donate all the proceeds from sales on iTunes from March 27th until April 10th, for his #1 Country Music hit, "You're Gonna Miss This".

That is just amazing.

Between my children, their father and me, we have 17 allergy markers. Six of those allergy markers are for food groups alone : wheat, eggs, cow milk, sesame seeds, shellfish, tree nuts. I know what it is to see my baby's face swell up and wheeze and gasp for air after eating what was supposed to be the wholesome nourishment of a boiled egg or a bit of humus on pita bread.

When this happened, I thought I was going to go crazy because our pediatrician at the time said it was just a fluke, that he would grow out of it, that we were just over reacting. Yet when our son landed in the hospital, not only did we "fire" our pediatrician, but became so distrustful of the whole conversation about allergies with physicians that we took on to what we see as the largest repository of scientific and medical information in the world : The World Wide Web. This is how we found in 1998 the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network site and till this day use it as one of our main points of reference in the management of our family's health.

So if you'd like to support a worthy cause, take a moment to buy Trace Adkins single or just take a moment to donate online.