cold is v bad and so is asthma, need to give body a rest.

Thank you guys so much for comments, sorry for lack of response

Apparently the place we saw, a few days ago, had had cats living there recently. (The lady who showed it initially thought not for over a year, or I wouldn't even have gone inside ( Read more... )

There was somewhat less smoke than I'd expected. There was still more than I can deal with without major consequences, and far more than I'd been assured of with every "Oh it's so much better now ( Read more... )

1) The lady who helps out here is here, but she is omfg smoky. I'm hiding in my room while she does stuff in the rest of the house, and will have to open windows once she's gone. Except, this is risky cause there's a restaurant next door, and people outside it are... you guessed it, smoky. ARGH. GO WAY ASTHMA ATTACK DO NOT WANT ( Read more... )

Made it to Berkeley.
But we got two smoky "non-smoking" rooms in a row last night. The first one even had an ashtray.
Guess how happy the shwetalungs are. Yeah. Plz not to expect anything from me, still, again, continued :/

*faceplants*

So today's excitement is: about an hour ago, my throat suddenly seized up. No warning, suddenly stuck in swallow-mode and not letting air through ( Read more... )

So I basically lost today to asthma instead of adrenal foo, which is an interesting change these days at any rate. I think it may be the grass allergy. The asthma had been behaving itself so much that I sort of forgot it might do this at any point, and that spring's a good time for it ( Read more... )

So asthma doc did some things right at our meeting thurs.

1) Talked to me instead of over me in 3rd person (though I am attributing this to the presence of a resident ( Read more... )

If you keep something in a place that has cats, or a place in which people smoke, you cannot then send it to me. It could kill me.

Once you've opened the box in that environment, you've let the allergen in. The cat doesn't have to go lick it. The smoker doesn't have to go puff smoke on it. The thing about allergies is that it doesn't take much ( Read more... )

1) not dead yet just continuing hugely crashy & nonverbal, with trouble staying warm and weird asthma foo that feels like cold-triggered but isn't. Basically in survival mode till doctor visit next week.

2) No spoons at all do deal with the TSA awfulness; writing a letter seems impossible atm. But, if you have spoons, Jim hines has an awesome ( Read more... )