04-09-2016, 05:08 AM | #1081 |
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What a lovely text you have in your signature, sane!
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04-09-2016, 04:16 PM | #1082 |
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It has been there for years, you just noticed it? or were you trying to point out the incongruity of my willingness to take up arms with my rather pacifistic poem passage?
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04-10-2016, 01:10 PM | #1083 |
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No, I only just noticed. On my phone the sigs are displayed larger than the actual posts for some reason, so it's harder to ignore.
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04-11-2016, 10:10 AM | #1084 |
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Ugh, I think my pollen medecine is losing its effectiveness. I know I shouldn't been outside all day long yesterday, but the sun was delicious and everyone else was outside (and badgering me to join them). I sure paid for the privilege with the rest of the evening of sneezing and snuffling. I lost count after the twentiest hankerchief or so. And that means laundry today!
Damn allergies. Has anyone ever tried the honey method? Supposedly, if you can find local honey it will have pollen in it of which you're allergic too but and if you take some regularly your immune system may just learn to adapt. |
04-11-2016, 10:53 AM | #1085 |
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As I read your post, the honey method is what came to mind. It worked for me.
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04-11-2016, 12:09 PM | #1086 |
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I don't like honey. Yesterday the wind was blowing the other way, so I could sit outside no problem. I've never had as much trouble with hayfever as u had last week though. It is a bit better now (still not much wind).
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04-11-2016, 04:32 PM | #1087 | |
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I may have to try the honey method
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04-13-2016, 05:55 PM | #1088 | |
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I have been fine with herbal allergy meds so far. Prescription meds tend to have way more side-effects so I avoided them so far. But since last year I became allergic to a vitamin mix it seems to have gone only downward from then on. I could manage the increased number of allergies but I'm not going to manage if my meds fail me at the same. |
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04-13-2016, 10:23 PM | #1089 | |
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(I think that should be, “But ere I finished that jar of honey, I no longer suffered the sneezing and watery eyes I had before,” the word ere designating that one set of past events or conditions is nearer to the present than another set described by before; but ere sounds forced. English is such a lovely language.) |
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04-15-2016, 01:11 PM | #1090 |
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Oooh, that's faster than what I've read so far. Sounds promising. Time periods of over a year were mentioned, which didn't exactly make things more attractive.
Do you still have to take the honey regularly to keep away the symptoms? Or is it done and dusted forever after the last honey-jar? |
04-15-2016, 05:29 PM | #1091 |
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One would think it would be a habit you have to maintain, as it can still change by year and what is growing at the time?
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We’ll see how fast it calms her sneezing and watery eyes. In the past, it’s taken a week or two, but every time is different; besides, I understand your immune system recycles every few years. (Seven is what I was taught, but that was long, long ago.) Nowadays many pediatricians recommend not giving honey to babies before they’re 12 months old. Not because the honey will hurt them, but because it’s a potential source of botulism. (And riding trains is a potential source of railroad accidents, so I’m hitchhiking to Maine from now on.) I think we gave honey to our children after 6 or 9 months, but I’m not sure. I’m not a physician – where is Attalus? He might be able to give a more definite opinion – but I’ve noticed that lots of things that were “settled science” – fats are bad for you, cholesterol is bad for you, sugar is always bad for you (well, too much sugar is bad for you), spinach is an excellent source of iron, the USDA food pyramid, chocolate is bad for you, just for a few – are falling by the wayside. So I’m just going to eat pizza and drink beer from now on. And local honey, of course. As an aside, this rant: Science is an excellent tool, as long as it’s used properly. But it isn’t a source of Truth: it’s a means of testing hypotheses and building useful theorems about how things work. As a source of Truth, it is vastly inferior to Religion and Philosophy. Still, Philosophy devolves into “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” (Phenomenology remains useful, though; and I suppose symbolic logic is rock-solid: it seems to be sound. I had to read a lot of Sartre: Sartre is a pervert.) Religion, unfortunately, has been abused to take power over others; and now it appears Science is being abused for the same purpose. (Now, if that can’t start a fire, nothing can. (Where’s more dry tinder?)) (I have no idea where that rant originated. Must be aliens.) Eärniel, I’ll try to let you know how long the honey takes. I may not be told, and find out after the fact, though. But it’s worked well for me: anywhere from a couple of weeks for me (a “booster shot”, as it were) to 4–6 weeks. Of course, by that time, most of the pollen will be out of the air… Sane, I used local honey when I first moved here decades ago because I’d been warned to do that. Since then, I’ve used it “as needed” to reduce allergies during spring and fall. Groceries usually carry honey from far off, so I have hunt for local stuff. I have a couple of friends who keep beehives, one of them nearby; there is a farmers’ market every other week, though some of the farmers are from the next state (it’s New England, so the next state or two or three isn’t very far off); and there are one or two farms still in operation. Sorry, out of sorts today. Must be my allergies… |
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04-23-2016, 01:32 PM | #1095 |
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Exciting weekend for my oldest son. He's away from home from this past Wednesday until Monday evening - in New York City, with his high school Vocal Jazz choir, plus orchestra and band. He turned 18 yesterday. Tomorrow he and his classmates sing/perform at Carnegie Hall!!!
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04-23-2016, 03:11 PM | #1096 |
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That's amazing! I hope he has lots of fun.
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04-23-2016, 03:24 PM | #1097 |
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Oooh, they grow up so quickly. Good on him. I remember that one photo with the little princelings.
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05-02-2016, 06:57 AM | #1098 |
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I'm posting from my new laptop. My old one was still doggedly going on, but it didn't have much fight left in it.
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05-03-2016, 03:22 AM | #1099 |
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May it rest well in fields of RAM, with fans gently blowing!
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