Wow good luck with the asthma/allergy thing hope you get that under control.

I really liked your american in paris take off. It was well written and I loved the description of not knowing what you ordered. I did so much of that over the years. Thank god I like most everything. I am finding coming out stories a bit jaded rigtht now but this was short and fun. Pax Steve(aka flattoppp)

LB--

It was great having dinner with you last night.

Sorry to hear about your asthmatic reaction--I'm subject to the same problems, and I've become deathly allergic to cats, which give me asthma to the point where I can't breathe. (Remind me not to visit you in your house.) The first time I had an acute reaction like the one you describe (thinking I needed a trip to the emergency room at 3 a.m.), I was visiting friends in Virginia. (We could talk about their red-headed kid, but we won't.) It was a combination of mold and cats. Fortunately, they had an inhaler handy to give me First Aid with, and now I've got an Albuterol inhaler of my own for just such circumstances. I usually try to avoid cat houses, or at least to sit on unupholstered chairs when I do visit one. Hopefully, it's the mold and not the cats, but you need to take serious asthma like that VERY seriously. I hope my allergy isn't contagious.

Mrs. Rigel (who asks me to point out that she's technically a concubine rather than a Mrs.) is also a serious asthmatic, and her hunch is that it's the mold or possibly dust. Or the carpet.

--Rigel

David, it might be mold or mildew that's been there forever...it's just that your body hasn't been around it forever anymore...As your body readjusts to the new climate/situation, it'll react less violently. (unless your name is Robert who gets bad allergy attacks at the drop of a hat).

Oh, and your karate uniform...so you want to write a Service chapter where a karate class gets eaten for dinner? Yummm

Oh, and your karate uniform...so you want to write a Service chapter where a karate class gets eaten for dinner? Yummm

Hmmm ... I think I could probably be persuaded to do that ...

Oh, and your karate uniform...so you want to write a Service chapter where a karate class gets eaten for dinner? Yummm

 

Hmmm ... I think I could probably be persuaded to do that ...

 

*taps foot impatiently and looks at his watch*

David, it might be mold or mildew that's been there forever...it's just that your body hasn't been around it forever anymore...As your body readjusts to the new climate/situation, it'll react less violently. (unless your name is Robert who gets bad allergy attacks at the drop of a hat).

Dan is right. I'm not mildly allergic to something in the house I grew up in. Although in general I've been healthier since I moved out so perhaps it always got me a little. Much worse now though. Anyway you may get readjusted and if not at least you can hope that wherever you move to the allergin won't follow.

LB--

 

It was great having dinner with you last night.

 

Sorry to hear about your asthmatic reaction--I'm subject to the same problems, and I've become deathly allergic to cats, which give me asthma to the point where I can't breathe. (Remind me not to visit you in your house.) The first time I had an acute reaction like the one you describe (thinking I needed a trip to the emergency room at 3 a.m.), I was visiting friends in Virginia. (We could talk about their red-headed kid, but we won't.) It was a combination of mold and cats. Fortunately, they had an inhaler handy to give me First Aid with, and now I've got an Albuterol inhaler of my own for just such circumstances. I usually try to avoid cat houses, or at least to sit on unupholstered chairs when I do visit one. Hopefully, it's the mold and not the cats, but you need to take serious asthma like that VERY seriously. I hope my allergy isn't contagious.

 

Mrs. Rigel (who asks me to point out that she's technically a concubine rather than a Mrs.) is also a serious asthmatic, and her hunch is that it's the mold or possibly dust. Or the carpet.

 

--Rigel

 

Good to know.

 

Sharon

DK pegged a main source of allergens (and allergens are a major source as asthmatic problems): Mold.

You mentioned that this was in a basement: Basements are notorious for this, as well as other environmental contaminants.

My father had asthmatic attacks which were bought on due to chemical allergies combined with panic attacks. He was very, very sensitive to any sort of solvent, and stress made him much worse.

Insect or rodent droppings can be a major source, too. So too can food allergies.

Although I have allergies, I have only experienced something like that once in my life ... and once was enough.

It was right after I left my job as a corporate employee ( yes, I actually did that for a while) and was transitioning to being self-employed. I had a mild head cold that didn't go down into my chest, so I really didn't think anything of it, until one night it started getting more and more difficult to breathe. I was wheezing and struggling for breath. A friend took me to the emergency room, where they gave me an inhalation treatment that opened things up, and an inhaler for use at home, which I never had to use but was reassuring to have around for a while. What they diagnosed was bronchiospasms of unknown origin (not much of a diagnosis, really.)

It had never happened before, and never has happened again, but it was a very scary thing.

I'm glad you're going to get it checked out.

Kitty

Sooooo, although my first choice is possible mold, was there anything in your 'spicy' dishes that could have caused an allergic reaction - like peanuts!. Sometimes it's just the simple things in life. One day - at 26 - after eating eggs all my life - I fixed myself an egg sandwich and - behold - difficult breathing and a bright red face and watery eyes. Now, no more eggs, cats, christmas trees and flu shots. Why is it so easy to grow into allergies, but so difficult to grow out of them?