South, to Augusta!
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniAppointment with the allergist, sigh. I've managed to avoid this for, oh, eighteen or nineteen years -- since we moved to Maine and all the trees in the state decided to try to assassinate me. This year...I dunno...maybe I'm just tired of it. So, we'll go find out what I'm allergic to. Fingers crossed that it's not cat dander.
In the course of excavating my office from the Rubble of Writing(tm), I find that I have...too many stones. Yes, I'm one of those intensely annoying people who pick up stones and rocks -- beach stones, lake stones, woods stones, side of the road stones... I display them among the other bric-a-brac, but -- I've hit critical mass, and I can't choose which ones to get rid of. These aren't, you understand, Just Stones; these are 'Way Cool Stones that I Found Myself. Sigh. I'm guessing the best thing to do is just gather up all of them (even the ones with the teensy crystals? even the ones that had iron veins, which rusted out, leaving a Really Interesting Shape?) and put them outside. They're stones, for heaven's sake.
Um... Maybe tomorrow.
Yesterday, Steve and I recovered the living room, got all of the boxes unpacked and books reshelved. I found the Mencken Table, and hey -- we have a floor in the living room, too! Amazing.
I have now finished reading both Local Custom and Scout's Progress and can therefore commence Staring Balefully at Nothing. Or I would, except my backbrain has helpfully provided the idea for one of stories for the Yule chapbook. You guys are gonna like this one...
I'm outta here.
In the course of excavating my office from the Rubble of Writing(tm), I find that I have...too many stones. Yes, I'm one of those intensely annoying people who pick up stones and rocks -- beach stones, lake stones, woods stones, side of the road stones... I display them among the other bric-a-brac, but -- I've hit critical mass, and I can't choose which ones to get rid of. These aren't, you understand, Just Stones; these are 'Way Cool Stones that I Found Myself. Sigh. I'm guessing the best thing to do is just gather up all of them (even the ones with the teensy crystals? even the ones that had iron veins, which rusted out, leaving a Really Interesting Shape?) and put them outside. They're stones, for heaven's sake.
Um... Maybe tomorrow.
Yesterday, Steve and I recovered the living room, got all of the boxes unpacked and books reshelved. I found the Mencken Table, and hey -- we have a floor in the living room, too! Amazing.
I have now finished reading both Local Custom and Scout's Progress and can therefore commence Staring Balefully at Nothing. Or I would, except my backbrain has helpfully provided the idea for one of stories for the Yule chapbook. You guys are gonna like this one...
I'm outta here.
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Date: 2008-06-24 10:19 pm (UTC)The minute my 30 days was up on the health insurance, I headed to an allergist. They tested me for 80 items and I reacted to at least 72 of them, including every food (corn, tomatoes, wheat). The allergist bemusedly said it would be difficult to put me on a food elimination diet...He also didn't like that fact that if I caught a cold, it always turned into a bacterial infection, and I couldn't kick it without antibiotics.
I reassured him that I'm not really allergic to the foods, but that my immune system was just kicked up. Give me an inhaler, and some non-drowsy allergy medicine and I'll get better. He threatened that if I wasn't better in a year, he'd put me on shots, but I was right. I can't remember having to have antibiotics to kick a sinus infection since '95 and get along quite well with periodic claritin, and infrequent asthma inhaler doses (usually when recovering from colds, or around cats).
Even just taking claritin or another antihistamine daily for a few weeks might help, if you don't do it now.
I will keep my fingers crossed that you may find a similar solution.
Melita