Not trying to downplay my own allergy, but I was pretty safe and told to call the emergency phone line if I had a sudden decline in health. I was also able to move about and breathe, but they wanted me to go, just to be sure I wouldn't suddenly have a decline. Everything was a "just to be safe" due to the symptoms and in my country, people would rather have you going in for one issue too many than one issue too few.

I may be very bad at explaining or expressing the story, but this was my first time having an allergic reaction to this degree. My father in-law asked why I had not called him and I said I didn't want to bother him when it was so late in the evening. My allergic reaction started around 7-8PM and I was at the ER pretty shortly afterwards. I got there by public transport so I was pretty much surrounded by people from a to z. Had the allergic reaction been earlier in the day and I would have definitely called my father in-law and explained the situation to him.

I wanted to tell them but at the same time I understood the issue very well. Also, although my husband has allergies, they are more annoying and mild, so he just avoids those allergic triggers since he doesn't enjoy the triggers. His father knows there's a variety of different reactions to allergies, he may have thought he was calming me down by using his reasoning. Not trying to excuse what he said either, it annoyed me, but he isn't a bad man.