Food allergy update

Made an appointment for this afternoon with our local G.P., to go visit an allergy specialist to try to pin down the source of the food allergy. I'm now a bit paranoid -- every time I feel an itch on my ear, my chin, my arm, my belly, I halfway think ''uh oh...'''

The Lady was going to compost the two remaining potatos from the cupboard, but (empiricist that I am), I washed them, peeled them, and saved the randomized peelings in one pair of zip-lock bags, and did likewise with the sliced main part of the potato. This way, can track down (if necessary) whether it was the skin, or the ''meat'', or neither.

I also saved samples of the garlic powder (had used it before in cooking, but this time it was uncooked; cooking changes the chemical make-up). Likewise, the dish soap and the hand soap at the sink.

Upon reflection, probably **not** the weeding that caused it: again, it was about a three-hour lag between my touching the weeds (and potentially breathing spores, etc.), and my reaction. Plus, if it was topical, it should've affected areas of my body that touched the plant, or that I scratched with tainted fingernails. Yet the underside of my forearms were unaffected, and it seems like the weeds (most were pretty tall) would have whipped against my inner forearm.


On the brighter side: At least it happened to me, and not The Kid. She's still essentially pre-verbal, so we would have been **really** freaking out if she started puffing up like I did! (Can't explain what's wrong with her.) Plus, she's smaller, so less body mass and general sturdiness and resiliance than I have: It didn't affect my breathing, but it might have affected hers.)

Between this allergy thing, and my being ill for a week, I've actually managed to be the sick one, and The Lady was the well one. Usually, it's the other way around: The Lady catches all the colds, and they miss me (or I get over them in half the time, and with lighter symptoms). Guess it's just my turn! ;)


--GG