I got my allergy test results back and it's a bit of a shocker. It appears to me that I am allergic to every tree ever grown in history.. that's odd. Along with grass, peanuts, almonds, cats and wouldn't ya know it.. dogs! But at least my allergy number for dogs is one of the lowest. So friends and family, here it is!:
- Cat hair
- Dog hair
- Bermuda Grass
- Red Top
- Rye Grass
- Maple/Box Elder
- White Oak
- American White Elm
- Olive Tree
- Cottonwood Tree
- White Ash
- Mesquite
- Russian Thistle
- Rough Pigweed
- Wormwood/Sagebrush
- Peanuts
- Almonds
There you have it! They each rank by number and class, the higher number or class, the more allergic I am. All trees are ranked 3-5 out of 6 classes. Dogs and cats- class 3. Peanuts class 2 and almonds class 1. Who knew? This certainly explains why I am CONSTANTLY congested and can't breath out of my nose in Utah. In Vegas, I get a serious case of the itchy nose and occasional itchy/watery eyes. If I touch a cat, then touch my face, my face blows up and my eye swells shut! Just one eye. I still have one to see out of and man let me tell you, I sure am thankful for two working eyes! The whole one eye swollen completely shut thing, it's such a beautiful sight to behold. Pretty funny if you ask Tyson or I. Occasionally, maybe once or twice a year, that will happen to me with the dogs. I'll wake up with a swollen eye and it will keep swelling until it is 100% closed. Literally I can not see out of it, haha. Thank Heavens it's only happened on days off when I don't need to go anywhere. Little children would be running and screaming in every direction but mine. Parents would think they have just encountered Sloth from the Goonies.
I know you're all dying to hear my plan so I guess I can hang around for another minute to tell you! I am waiting to hear back from the E.N.T. Dr with recommendations for an allergist up here in Utah to go to. In the mean time, I'll be seeing Dr Hershey. No, that is not my way of saying I'll be eating chocolate until they call. Dr Hershey is a Homeopath Dr who does muscle testing. By doing so, he can find what you are allergic to and what makes your body weak and cure it. Not everything is curable, but you'd be surprised how much it actually does work. I've never been one that is all for witch Drs, nor have I been one that is against them. I believe in whatever works for you, or me. When my sister in law took her baby to Dr Hershey to be tested she told me about it and I was intrigued. She showed me a little bit at home how it works. It was so weird, I could actually feel it. We took Ty in to Dr Hershey awhile back and I saw how it was done. Pretty cool and interesting if you ask me. I am a bit excited to try it myself and see what/how many of these allergies the doc can rid me of. There are just too many outside elements that even if I could be cured of them, would just be too expensive, so in the long run I'll still have many of these allergies right up to the day of surgery. Obviously we don't want to run into the same problem of being congested as before so I plan to fill my prescription of the nasal spray my E.N.T. Dr prescribed me and use it the few weeks prior to surgery to keep me nice and clear!
I am so sick of Dr after Dr, blood draws, PILLS, pains, braces, and hospitals controlling my life, I pray that come surgery time there is not yet another "something" to get checked out and cleared. This is becoming old..so old. No, I lied.. this got old about 3 years ago! I just want to live my life please? That would be joyous. :) I have a close friend that has been going through many years of hardship right alongside the timeline of mine. I'm thinking that after the years of following God's plan and living on His timeline, we deserve a few good years of peaceful, trial free living!! It seems that her hard times has just ended as her miracle baby was just born. And I pray that for her this is the beginning of peace, bliss and nothing but care free living ahead for many years!
