one of your friends made just a little slip, so i'm gonna take a little trip of my own
I went to the allergist today for what I thought would be a consultation only, because I'm going to get tested to see if/what anasthesia I'm allergic to. But then she told me that she wanted me to get re-tested for my environmental allergies--and they could do that today. So I said that that was fine. I had been tested before, when I was like 8 years-old, so I've had the scratch test before. Basically what they do is scratch your arms with little needles and put a drop of an allergen (for example, dustmites or cat fur) on the scratched skin to see if your skin reacts to it (leaves a hive--an itchy red bump like a mosquito bite). She did about 24 of them on my two arms, like on the insides of them along the veins. That didn't really hurt, but it wasn't pleasant. Surpisingly, I'm not allergic to as many things as I was when I was little. But it showed up that I was allergic to red cedar trees, oak trees, and extremely allergic to birch trees (I got a HUGE hive there--oh my God it was SO itchy I wanted to scream!). The red cedar tree was something new, but I knew I was allergic to the oak and birch.
Next, they had to retest all the ones that didn't show up (no hives) on my upper arms with a stronger dose of each allergen. This time, they were actual injections. 21 of them. And they HURT. Like cringe and close your eyes hurt. And wipe away the blood hurt. Ugh. That was awful. But anyway, a few more showed up--I'm allergic to both kinds of dustmites that there are, and mold. Yeah. But I had to walk around the hospital after with all of these hives and black dots (where they marked with some kind of a black marker where they put each allergen) all over my arms. Ridiculous. Then, I had to walk around the hospital (with my mum, who had come with me of course) to find the stupid lab to get a blood test because they want to test me to see if I'm allergic to latex. Sigh.
And the guy who gave me the blood test was extremely obnoxious. He kept asking me these stupid trivia questions about Presidents and geography. I was not amused because of the stupid pain in my arms. But thankfully, after that they said that I could go. I have to come back in a couple of weeks to be allergy tested for general anasthesia. Then again for local anasthsia. Then again for food allergies. Ugh, I don't know if my arms can take all of that! :-/
That's all for now, I'm going to go scrub the black marker dots off of my arms!
Next, they had to retest all the ones that didn't show up (no hives) on my upper arms with a stronger dose of each allergen. This time, they were actual injections. 21 of them. And they HURT. Like cringe and close your eyes hurt. And wipe away the blood hurt. Ugh. That was awful. But anyway, a few more showed up--I'm allergic to both kinds of dustmites that there are, and mold. Yeah. But I had to walk around the hospital after with all of these hives and black dots (where they marked with some kind of a black marker where they put each allergen) all over my arms. Ridiculous. Then, I had to walk around the hospital (with my mum, who had come with me of course) to find the stupid lab to get a blood test because they want to test me to see if I'm allergic to latex. Sigh.
And the guy who gave me the blood test was extremely obnoxious. He kept asking me these stupid trivia questions about Presidents and geography. I was not amused because of the stupid pain in my arms. But thankfully, after that they said that I could go. I have to come back in a couple of weeks to be allergy tested for general anasthesia. Then again for local anasthsia. Then again for food allergies. Ugh, I don't know if my arms can take all of that! :-/
That's all for now, I'm going to go scrub the black marker dots off of my arms!