Liralen Li
25 April 2008 @ 11:48 am
Well...  

... that's kind of conclusive in my book.

An hour and a half after I took my first shot of Advair, I blew a flow test that was 15% better.  Not better than my flow tests of the last week, but 15% better than my average for the last two months.  Of course, it does leave me a little bit jittery and I had a hard time getting to sleep last night, but that may well have been because I'm still phase shifted, PMSsy, and have a chapter and three fics and two RP moves on the brain. 

Still, this morning, to get to Jet's classroom for my volunteer stint, I took John's electric scooter instead of biking in as I didn't want to push it too much.  It was colder than I expected, as the sun's out, but the temps are still in the high 40's to 50's, not the 70's of the last few days.  Luckily, he had his insulated gloves in the basket, so I just scooted on over.  The winds are high today, which has cleared the haze and pollution from the skies, and it really has helped my eyes a lot. 

I enjoyed my ability to breath.  And the neat, simple work of copying everyone's full names, birth dates, and place of birth into their pretend, paper passports; and then the whirl of getting everyone to change out their books for their weekend reading. 

So it's been a much better morning.  And I might get a chance to go see the new Jet Li/Jackie Chan movie this afternoon.  *happy sigh*

 
 
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Liralen Li
24 April 2008 @ 11:52 am
Growl...  
I hate not being able to breathe.  The cold last week, high tree pollen counts, my asthma, and just generally being stupid about staying up late in order to indulge in my writing binge has made it so that I'm coughing everywhere.  Bah.  And I have my allergy shot treatment appointment this afternoon to make sure that the whole series is actually helping.  It's costing several thousand dollars, so it had better be improving things.  And now I'm all confused as to whether or not it has improved anything.

I suspect that if I hadn't had the cold I'd be in much better shape, but... grumble, humbug.

I've been mildly cranky and poor Jet has had trouble understanding why it is that Momma just isn't in the mood to play.  Last night, he cried when he thought about leaving me alone in the house when he was going to go play with his friends and he couldn't understand when I gently said but I wanted to be alone, that I loved him, lots, and that he should have fun with his friends and not worry so much about leaving me in the house alone.  It took a little while, but he ran off to play and seemed very happy about playing with the other kids.  So that's all to the good.

Tonight we'll go to a knitting meeting together.  That will help, I think.  He loves to knit, and is quite good at it, now.  So it should be quiet for both of us.
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Liralen Li
01 February 2008 @ 01:33 pm
Breath...  
... so the one surprising thing from the allergy appointment was finding that I'm probably using less than 70% of my lung capacity. That there's a low level asthma that's occupying, basically, half a lung. Even with all the stuff I've been doing. Ah well...

The good news is that with medication and/or the shot therapy I should regain it all...
 
 
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Liralen Li
31 January 2008 @ 09:41 pm
I Tired...  
... and the buttonholes are like eight inches from being Done.

The allergy test took more out of me than I expected, especially with the big dose of antihistamines I got afterward. Of the 68 individual items that were tested on my back, more than half reacted. My back is a mass of welts now. *sigh* Even after a shower. I don't even want to think about the last time my back felt this sore.

The dozen negative group tests on my arms were pretty reactive, too. More than half of those blew up, and the doctor took a look at my results and said, "You are a very allergic person."

No duh. Hopefully the shots will help. They usually do.

Luckily, all of the food reactive tests were exactly the same as the saline. I was glad. So it's "just" trees, grass, weed, dust mite, and cats that I'm allergic to, which basically means spring, summer, and fall I get hammered by all the pollens. Amusingly enough, nearly none of the molds reacted, either, after Seattle, that's something.

I will finish the last of the idiot cord tonight. Watch a bit of the news and weather and I should just sew on all the buttons, re-block just the edging and Be Done. Then I can wear it tomorrow for a bit and take a picture before it absolutely HAS to be hung up on the wall at the show.

The only saving grace for today was that I had a dream about Shunsui telling Jyuushiro about a dream he had and I managed to write it down before it all melted away...
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Liralen Li
16 September 2007 @ 02:09 pm
Another Way To Treat Allergies  

There was an allergy clinic here in Denver that showed up in a story on the local news as one that gives out allergy drops.  They're the same kind of antigen mix that is used for shots, but it can be self-administered, under the tongue!  So no weekly shots.  Less cost, and actually less hazard to the people getting the treatment. 

The interesting thing is that they seem to be able to address food allergies as well as just airborne stuff.  Woo...

http://www.advancedentdenver.com/allergy-drops.html 

Link for those interested.  I'm not sure where else it's available, but it has some keywords that can be searched on in your area, too. 

I'm likely to go look them up when I'm off my antihistamines...

 
 
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