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07-21-2017, 09:15 AM | #1 |
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For his daddies birthday.
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07-21-2017, 09:41 AM | #2 |
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Don't know when his Dad's birthday is, but this heat isn't going to last forever. And if you stay in the mountains, it might be tolerable.
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07-21-2017, 06:04 PM | #3 |
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This is in the Piedmont. I think I ride my bike. Hot shit weather this weekend, but 88 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with maybe thunderstorms in the afternoon. Its only 3 hours to Charlotte from here, but I doubt dad lives there. No one but welfare lives in Queen City.
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07-30-2017, 07:07 AM | #4 |
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People's. Children. Thanks to my downstairs neighbor, I am now severely allergic to smoke. As in, if I get over-exposed, I may lose the ability to breathe. My awesome biker neighbor is extremely concerned about this. There is a 3,000+ acre wildfire burning just a little bit north of where I live. Official firefighting policy, as announced last week, is "we're building miles of firebreaks to protect high-value private properties. Everyone else, wait for rain." Which, at this time of year, should be here around about MAYBE mid-September. All three of my allergy meds are failing. My MD's options are limited to advising me to get out of any fire-prone area until autumn, which is going to be a tad bit impossible on my budget (currently about $275 a month once my bills are paid). I would have to go to my old stomping grounds, northwestern Oregon or the Puget Sound area, to make this happen. My health insurance will not go with me. At least three of my medications are illegal to mail. Yesterday, biker neighbor was trying to respond to a hard, urgent knocking on his front door. He thought it was my roomie trying to get me emergency help. He fell on the hip he's probably having replaced in September, also nearly ripping a 2-inch strip out of one of his tattoos in the process. To clarify: he was already walking with a cane and spent most of the rest of yesterday in bed. And the 2-inch strip that DID get ripped out of one of his arms missed his favorite ink by about 2 millimeters. It was some f*kkin jerk kids who don't even live here. They came up and cop-knocked my door too. They run around with the spying, tattling 7-year-old who calls the downstairs apartment with the awful neighbor 'home' now because she's spent more time there in her life than with her actual mother. This whole group of kids are now stealing things, throwing rocks at windows, teasing pets, and treating our concrete-and-steel staircase as a playground when there is an ACTUAL PLAYGROUND open for their use right across the street. My biker neighbor thinks his getting hurt is going to be sufficient to get the new management team off their asses to inform parents that even guests' children ARE NOT to be unsupervised on the properties. Seeing as how that hasn't worked yet in the 10 years I've been here, I'm flat out of optimism. I have a referral from my MD to see an immunologist to find out if there's anything medically possible to keep me safe during fire season. If I'm lucky, I might get to see her by Christmas. With nothing but breezy, dry, 90-degree days on the foreseeable horizon weather-wise, nobody thinks I have nearly that long. The only kid we're sure isn't involved, ironically, is the older of the 2 who actually DO live in this building--he's currently super-mega-grounded and hasn't been allowed to play with the problem kids in almost 2 weeks. Last edited by Snakeadelic; 07-30-2017 at 07:14 AM. Reason: To clarify |
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Breathing is involuntary, and unless you are subject to enormous amounts of smoke, you will continue to breath. Quote:
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Might not be an allergen - may well be a trigger for asthma
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07-30-2017, 07:16 PM | #7 |
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May also trigger paranoia.
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08-01-2017, 02:33 PM | #8 |
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And nightmare scenarios spun out of the thinnest of concerns.
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07-31-2017, 07:34 AM | #9 |
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It was diagnosed as an allergy multiple times starting when I was in my mid-teens, and until last week the meds given for it (Benadryl, Flonase, Levocetirizine) were managing the symptoms. They simply stopped doing so. The symptoms presenting did NOT include respiratory distress of any kind--it was dry, itchy eyes, suddenly clogged nasal passages, sneezing, and skin itching. When my asthma (diagnosed in 1981 and re-diagnosed repeatedly since) kicks in, I cannot draw a deep breath and I wheeze like an old steam engine. Albuterol stops this, but has no effect on the reaction to smoke.
I also have an "adverse reaction" to opiates and opioids--if I don't take an anti-emetic first, they come back up before having a chance to dissolve. I stopped taking them (from 3x daily to manage arthritis, spinal damage, and connective tissue inflammatory pain) on the advice of my MD. He said emergency only, limit 1 per day. The last one I took had no effect at all. No pain relief, none of the "yep, that's a narcotic" high I have always gotten when suddenly taking pain meds again after any more than 4 days without (I'd gone 6). My thoracic spine is now damaged, I have osteoarthritis in my hands, and have had systemic connective tissue inflammation my whole life. My typing has gone from 60+ words per minute to maybe 30 on a good day since I had to quit the painkillers, and I can no longer cross my index & middle fingers or close my hands completely. Both were possible 3 weeks ago. And I'm still pissed about the non-resident kids. The one who now tells people she lives downstairs (with her great-grandmother and no one else) was one of the ones messing with my roomie's bike to the point where he had to lock it in our garage. Yesterday, as I was putting the blanket back at the bottom of my neighbor's front door (because weatherstripping replacement is NOT on the management's to-do list), that kid looked at me and said "DON'T touch MY bike." By some miracle, even when I was still so angry I was shaking, I limited my response to "I am not the one who touches things that do not belong to them, because that is RUDE," and slamming the door in her face. I'd really like the downstairs neighbor to move out. I lived here 3 years before that kid was even conceived and I am sick to death of being treated like the intruder here. Biker neighbor, the one who has to use a blanket because they won't replace weatherstripping, is going to management today about several things, her crappy attitude, using resident kids' toys without permission (she's been known to climb over porch railings to get what she wants), tale-carrying, lying, and spying among them. |
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07-31-2017, 07:37 AM | #11 |
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Undertoad, as for the amount of smoke, there are at least half a dozen LARGE wildfires burning up and down the Bitterroot (to the west of me about 2 miles) and Sapphire (to the east about 30-ish miles maybe?--there are no direct connecting east-west highways near here that I'm aware of) Mountain ranges. And a new one just a few miles west of us. We're not to the point of "worse air quality than a bad day in Beijing", but that has happened several of the 13 years I've been in this valley.
The flip side is just as rare and entirely glorious. One year, "fire season" consisted of one tiny fire in July, extinguished the same day it started, and one tiny fire in a very dry November that was also out by nightfall on the day it started. |
07-31-2017, 11:14 AM | #12 |
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Undertoad, the most recent diagnosis was earlier this year. And up until last week, I very much DID experience relief using antihistamines. Until last week, a single 25 milligram dose of Diphenhydramine stopped the congestion and eye issues not addressed by the other meds 80% of the time, and the other 20% stopped with a second 25 mg. dose.
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08-01-2017, 07:03 AM | #13 |
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Updated info on irritant response vs. allergen response as pertaining to my situation...
I spoke yesterday with a medical provider whose reaction to smoke is quite different from mine. She said she's known multiple people whose response to smoke could only be alleviated by antihistamines. Hers (severe headaches) is alleviated by keeping smoke-filtering air purifiers in every enclosed environment she uses--office and home. I'll be trying to find one of those this month because I'll give anything helpful a reasonable shot. As for the kids, now that a tenant has been injured by the actions of kids (many of them, sadly, short-term 'visitors' from the local abused-families shelter) who do not live in this complex, we're to call immediately if there is any further trouble during business hours. And she let slip that the spying, tale-carrying little brat whose parents ditch her downstairs with her great-grandmother four or five days a week is NOT on the lease and thus does not have the right to just do as she damn well pleases. That means next time I try to go take care of my injured biker neighbor and the last 3 or 4 risers of our steps are covered in toys, garbage, and half-eaten food, we call the manager. The manager is very much aware that I have increasingly serious balance issues, and it's in EVERYONE'S lease that kids are not ever allowed to play on the stairs, even the bottom 3 or 4 risers. Guess my menfolk and I are the only ones who actually read our leases before signing! |
08-01-2017, 02:37 PM | #14 |
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All these allergies/irritants/breathing problems, and it's never occurred to you to try an air cleaner/purifier until now?
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08-01-2017, 07:10 AM | #15 |
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Also, I note that your quoted material stating that smoke cannot be an allergen is ONLY talking about tobacco. The smoke we get around here is wildfire smoke--it's full of oils from coniferous trees, assorted compounds from toxic plants, and we've had occasions where entire insects roasted to ash have fallen only to collapse at the first touch of anything but air.
And blanket statements about human health are a very risky thing. We do not come with FORD stamped on our foreheads; not all our parts are interchangeable because the singular truth about humans and health is that one size does not fit all. If all humans were truly medically identical, I'd have the correct number of ribs, for starters--and, as verified repeatedly across my life using X-Rays, I am missing the lowest, smallest pair entirely and am also missing one of the next pair up! Until a vertebra count established that fact, it was thought I had half an extra rib, and for years I had friends who called me Sparerib. My mother, on the other hand, has a normal rib count...and a Lumbar 6 vertebra that is NOT part of her sacrum. My spine has no L6, transitioning normally from L5 to Sacrum 1 (fused to the rest of the sacral vertebrae as is also normal). |
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