It was a theory, only wrong

Saw the allergist this AM. No I am not allergic to any of the potato family (they tested seven things including the suspected tomatoes and eggplants). My father had mentioned that his mother had something of a tomato allergy. But I don't.

The only foods that came up significantly positive were two of the nuts: walnuts and almonds. The allergist noted that even if I don't eat the nuts themselves the oils may get used in some foods. On the other hand, all a positive test says is that the antibody is present. If it doesn't react when I eat the food, then it's not significant. I don't like or eat many nuts anyway.

We talked a bit about reducing environmental allergies, which I'm very bad about, and he agreed that continued prophylactic use of a 12- or 24-hour non-drowsy med makes sense at least through the height of pollen season. So excuse me while I dive for the Loratidine. I've been off antihistamines since last Wed in order that the skin tests today would give good readings. This has been neither fun nor amusing, and I'm glad it's over.

I see a GI specialist later this week - maybe she will have some new theories, because I'm fresh out.

It was a theory, only wrong

Saw the allergist this AM. No I am not allergic to any of the potato family (they tested seven things including the suspected tomatoes and eggplants). My father had mentioned that his mother had something of a tomato allergy. But I don't.

The only foods that came up significantly positive were two of the nuts: walnuts and almonds. The allergist noted that even if I don't eat the nuts themselves the oils may get used in some foods. On the other hand, all a positive test says is that the antibody is present. If it doesn't react when I eat the food, then it's not significant. I don't like or eat many nuts anyway.

We talked a bit about reducing environmental allergies, which I'm very bad about, and he agreed that continued prophylactic use of a 12- or 24-hour non-drowsy med makes sense at least through the height of pollen season. So excuse me while I dive for the Loratidine. I've been off antihistamines since last Wed in order that the skin tests today would give good readings. This has been neither fun nor amusing, and I'm glad it's over.

I see a GI specialist later this week - maybe she will have some new theories, because I'm fresh out.

Quit wasting my damned money!

bluegargantua linked to this photoessay on the war funding.

Some of the numbers are just silly, like computing the number of millenia one could employ Dice-K at his present salary. Some of it is eye-opening, like noting we could have converted every car in the US to run on E-85 ethanol for much less than this war has cost.

But when I got to the bit where they estimate that for the cost of this war we could have fed and educated the world's poor for five and a half years... I just cried.

Quit wasting my damned money!

bluegargantua linked to this photoessay on the war funding.

Some of the numbers are just silly, like computing the number of millenia one could employ Dice-K at his present salary. Some of it is eye-opening, like noting we could have converted every car in the US to run on E-85 ethanol for much less than this war has cost.

But when I got to the bit where they estimate that for the cost of this war we could have fed and educated the world's poor for five and a half years... I just cried.