All of us in my household suffer from allergies to varying degrees. My husband’s allergies are fairly mild, but the boys and I all have fairly severe allergies and asthma. I’ve always preferred to use Filtrete filters in our furnace. When I can’t find the size I need in the Filtrete brand, I have to [...]
Our pediatrician called yesterday with the results of Aaron’s blood allergy testing for foods. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. He’s not allergic to any of the various varieties of nuts they tested for, nor wheat, or milk. I explained that since she mentioned possible celiac disease, we tried gluten free foods. The symptoms subsided drastically. Then [...]
Today I’m going to let y’all in on my exciting life as of late, and feel free to tell me how you’ve been in the comments. I want to hear about you and yours too. – We’re still fighting the good fight against allergies and asthma here. – We’re barely into football season, and I’m [...]
I’ve been feeling lost for the last week. In the midst of all the crazy respiratory illness crud that’s been running through our family (thank you Fall allergies), our youngest was diagnosed with asthma last week. The doctor said with his medical history, our family history, and several other factors, it just made sense. Looking [...]
Stefanie and I (mostly Stefanie) got a new blog up and running called The Parent Support Space. We outgrew The SPD Life, so we made the move to WordPress (I’m still learning), added a forum, and added some authors. Today I blogged over there about one of my weaknesses as a parent – structure. I’ll [...]
We have trees like this all over post. They’re gorgeous to look at, but wreak havoc on unsuspecting sinus cavities.
If you’re a regular reader here, you know that in my house we all suffer form allergies. This kids’ are the hardest to control because they have adverse reactions to traditional oral antihistamines. I’m always on the lookout for a natural product that may ease their symptoms. We were lucky enough to try a sample [...]
OK people, calm the eff down. Seriously. OK, so we have yet another foreign flu in our midst. How is this different from viruses past? We’ve most recently have bird flu and SARS. Go back further, and I had Bejing flu in 1996 and survived. Did it suck? Hell yeah! I was 16 years old [...]
It’s no secret that we’re an allergy laden household. My husband has the mildest case with only some hayfever in the fall. Aaron is the next one with Spring and Fall allergies, and then there’s Zach and I with year round allergies. Zach and I get the allergy injections (only 4 more months of going [...]
I have this love/hate relationship with being right. One one hand sometimes it’s nice to say “I told you so.” On the other hand, I just wish people would listen to what I have to say and take it seriously. I’m not an alarmist. I hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. I’m [...]
