ROAD TRIP.
to Fairfield. 80 miles Northwest of here. Home of the Jelly Belly Factory, the Budweiser Bottling Plant and SePay Groves Olive Oil. Unfortunately the factories were not in production. So we sampled beer, participated in a taste test for "bad beer", bought Belly Flops and heard how Olive Oil can cure almost everything but cancer. It was a nice diversion from real life for awhile. The picture with Mr Jelly Belly will up as soon as Vicki gets it scanned.
"Made in a factory that manufactures peanut butter". The pretzels they gave us at Bud had that on the bag. I didn't think much of it. On Sunday I woke up with a swollen throat. Took a benadryl (as in one capsule only), ate Breakfast ala Lark (cinnamon rolls and bacon), read one section of the paper and crashed until 6:00 that night. Potent stuff. I do have an EpiPen, but the swelling wasn't that bad. So, I add pretzels made in a factory that prodces peanut butter to the list of don't eats.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Nuts to Allergies
Nice test grid, huh?
Mystery solved. 57 pin pricks later and I appear to be allergic to nuts. Tested positive for almonds and peanuts. Who'd a thought? 51 years old and suddenly developing food allergies. I have to abstain from any kind of nut for 3 weeks, and since I'm on vacation in less than 3 weeks, I might as well extend it through Spain. This would be no big deal, BUT.....the allergist decides I should also abstain from chocolate and Diet Pepsi. How the Hell am I supposed to go 5 weeks without chocolate or Diet Pepsi. Especially when I'm trying to put together a budget? This will be torture. At least I wasn't allergic to cats.
Updates
Doesn't seem like the last time I posted was Feb 18th. Things have either been hectic or deadly dull.
To catch up:
**17 days until VACATION! One of our group checked into getting us a round-trip limo to the Sac airport so we didn't have to drive at o'dark thirty in the morning (our flight leaves at 6:30 AM). The initial estimate was $50 each, but has now gone up to $87 each because the limo can't accomodate luggage for 9-10 ladies. Personally, I'm taking one small/medium suitcase, but I've traveled with these ladies before and they pack the house. So we're getting a 10-passenger bus. Doesn't matter to me...I just don't want to have to drive.
**Ceil's retirement party is today. She actually leaves next Wednesday.
**Lark retires "this month" as he likes to tell me.
**No more excitement in the neighborhood since the 9 patrol car/shotgun possible stolen car.
**Vicki's going to be a grandma again. Her oldest son this time.
**Vicki's hubby Jason is on mandatory every other week furloughs since he works for Arnold.
**Allergies. I've been having weird allergic reactions to something lately. The first time, my throat swelled. Not the point of being scary, but more like there's something there I want to swallow but can't. The next day, I'm sitting in IHop with Kathy having breakfast and my right eye swells up. A couple of Benadryls and I'm good. But it keeps happening at random times to assorted parts of my body, mostly upper torso, but also on my feet.
Monday, I'm in a meeting at work and my chest starts itching like crazy. Yep, there's a welt. Later the same day, I'm in my boss' office and I notice she's staring at me. My right eye had swelled again, plus my back was itching. By the time I bullied, or agressively requested to get in to see my doctor that day...
Receptionist: "How about tomorrow at 9:15"
Puffy Patient: "How about today?"
I had welts on my back, chest, behind my ear and my eye was looking pretty bad. My doc takes one look at me and says "you're allergic to something". Well, duh!
She also says "there's a lot of crap out there right now," Love those technical terms. Anyway, she prescribed Prednasone (no random drug tests for me), continue the Benadryl, have blood tests and see an Allergist (today at 10:30). I haven't puffed up since then, but it's been hit and miss anyway. I can just see it, she'll tell me I'm allergic to cats. if so, I guess I'll become a benadryl junkie.
**Lark is also having his annual coughing, stuffed up allergy problems. His are more normal and are due to pollen. He'll drain then cough for weeks. Last night he went to bed at 6:30 and coughed for an hour, only he didn't know it. I woke him up to give him a shot of cough syrup and he didn't even realize he'd been coughing. But it worked, he got to sleep and so did I...eventually.
The Culprit>>>>>>>>>>>
They're pretty, but deadly.
*While Lark snoozed, I was on my little pc and watching back to back to back episodes of NCIS. My pusher Kathy has finally gotten me hooked and I now have to have my daily DiNozzo fix.
Guess I've yammered on long enough that now I have to go to work. Can't miss those daily budget meetings.
Hasta la vista, Baby! ( a shout out to our gov and the current bane of my existence)
To catch up:
**17 days until VACATION! One of our group checked into getting us a round-trip limo to the Sac airport so we didn't have to drive at o'dark thirty in the morning (our flight leaves at 6:30 AM). The initial estimate was $50 each, but has now gone up to $87 each because the limo can't accomodate luggage for 9-10 ladies. Personally, I'm taking one small/medium suitcase, but I've traveled with these ladies before and they pack the house. So we're getting a 10-passenger bus. Doesn't matter to me...I just don't want to have to drive.
**Ceil's retirement party is today. She actually leaves next Wednesday.
**Lark retires "this month" as he likes to tell me.
**No more excitement in the neighborhood since the 9 patrol car/shotgun possible stolen car.
**Vicki's going to be a grandma again. Her oldest son this time.
**Vicki's hubby Jason is on mandatory every other week furloughs since he works for Arnold.
**Allergies. I've been having weird allergic reactions to something lately. The first time, my throat swelled. Not the point of being scary, but more like there's something there I want to swallow but can't. The next day, I'm sitting in IHop with Kathy having breakfast and my right eye swells up. A couple of Benadryls and I'm good. But it keeps happening at random times to assorted parts of my body, mostly upper torso, but also on my feet.
Monday, I'm in a meeting at work and my chest starts itching like crazy. Yep, there's a welt. Later the same day, I'm in my boss' office and I notice she's staring at me. My right eye had swelled again, plus my back was itching. By the time I bullied, or agressively requested to get in to see my doctor that day...
Receptionist: "How about tomorrow at 9:15"
Puffy Patient: "How about today?"
I had welts on my back, chest, behind my ear and my eye was looking pretty bad. My doc takes one look at me and says "you're allergic to something". Well, duh!
She also says "there's a lot of crap out there right now," Love those technical terms. Anyway, she prescribed Prednasone (no random drug tests for me), continue the Benadryl, have blood tests and see an Allergist (today at 10:30). I haven't puffed up since then, but it's been hit and miss anyway. I can just see it, she'll tell me I'm allergic to cats. if so, I guess I'll become a benadryl junkie.
**Lark is also having his annual coughing, stuffed up allergy problems. His are more normal and are due to pollen. He'll drain then cough for weeks. Last night he went to bed at 6:30 and coughed for an hour, only he didn't know it. I woke him up to give him a shot of cough syrup and he didn't even realize he'd been coughing. But it worked, he got to sleep and so did I...eventually.
The Culprit>>>>>>>>>>>
They're pretty, but deadly.
*While Lark snoozed, I was on my little pc and watching back to back to back episodes of NCIS. My pusher Kathy has finally gotten me hooked and I now have to have my daily DiNozzo fix.
Guess I've yammered on long enough that now I have to go to work. Can't miss those daily budget meetings.
Hasta la vista, Baby! ( a shout out to our gov and the current bane of my existence)
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