#fuck MCAS

[bbcphile]

Me, panicking about breaking the lease: Maybe the mold and air quality problems in the apartment weren’t as bad as I thought they were. Maybe it was all in my head. Maybe I was wrong to listen to my instincts and my body, and—

*panic interrupted by an asthma attack triggered by my picking up an item we had forgotten to decontaminate from the Mold Apartment *

Me: Ah. Nope, fleeing was actually the right choice. Never mind.

[salt-baby]

I just don't understand people who don't do a COVID test when they get sick

[cupophrogs]

If... if Drew's pants were torn up by the train crash... was he just pantless until he got through the schoolhouse???

Yes. Yes he was.

“The crash really tore my pants up, I did what I had to, man! At least I know how to sew.”

[batwynn]

Shit. Another bad allergic reaction. 🥲 I can’t even tell which high potential MCAS trigger it was today.

[enbysaurus-rex]

If one more person hears ‘I’m having a significant reaction to your [medical device], it’s impacting my sleep, my heart rate, and I have a condition that means the reaction will get worse if I tough it out’ and goes ‘well, if u can’t push through, it’s unfortunate….👀👀👀’ like wtf????

[chicago-geniza]

I love when the state gives you a measure of material disability support and the instant it begins to positively impact your function they're like "well you've Graduated from this program, innit?" No mate that means your disability support is working and I need it to live

[ghostofasecretary]

so every time i go to pick up my meds i must stand in the Allergy Corridor, so named because everytime i stand there my hands and feet swell and itch So Much

and the last allergy corridor incident didn't seem to excite my immune system too much

but. this morning i got some baby hives from sticking my hand in my bracelet drawer?? and though they went down with allergy meds my throat started hurting? and my dinner, which is literally black beans, rice, salt, sugar, and coconut milk, has made my feet swell like crazy and my fingers ain't so hot either

and like. maybe i am sensitive to coconut? but i've never previously noticed that

(to add insult to injury the dinner (Vietnamese dessert inspired, because when i feel bad i want dessert for dinner) ISN'T EVEN THAT GOOD but is so filling i haven't finished it and don't want to eat anything else either)

it would be great if the allergy test i took, like, worked, or if the blood panel showed an allergy to anything, because as is i'm just floating in a haze of Sometimes Body Bad with no way to get out.

...oh also my eye thing is worse right now? can't tell if that's The Mucus from itchy eyes or inflammation related

ANYWAYS

stopped eating the food giving me a Reaction, offered leftovers to roommate (tho this meal was. extremely cheap), cleaned up after myself, gonna eat more allergy meds and maybe see if a shower makes the itching stop

[angelodarc]

"May contain wheat and dairy ingredients"

[star-byrd]

[image id: the words "cromolyn sodium my beloved" in outlined hot pink font, on top of a background of transparent mast cells and images of the chemical formula for cromolyn, a cromolyn box, plastic ampules, and a foil packet of cromolyn. end id.]

[talkethtothehandeth]

Okay for real this time, I get my first set of allergy shots on the 14th!!! No more of being allergic to air in a few years! I can pet my dog without suffocating and be around my birds without sniffling, I can be lazy bones and not dust for a couple of weeks instead of weekly— and maybe some of my hearing might come back???

Im so excited to breathe properly and not be itchy 24/7

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

[salt-baby]

allergy resident today was getting the medical history from me and at the end of it they just kinda sat back and were like "wow I feel kinda bad for you, you really just got like everything"

later asked my allergist if my MCAS was controlled and he just went "ha! no."

[the-habitat-ring]

I always want to post more about my yard on here, but I get frustrated and self-concious because my disabilities prevent me from doing everything I want to do and frequently derail my plans. I do want to post some of the cool stuff I’m doing, though! I just need to get over the mental hurdle where I feel frustrated about all the cool stuff I’m not doing or have failed at.

[batwynn]

And here I thought I knew what allergies were before.

[cavewretch]

if i can be so honest . i am very stressed

[ebonyheartnet]

I can have mustard seed.

I can have pre-ground mustard seed.

I HAVE AT LEAST ONE SHELF STABLE SPICE THIS HELLHOLE OF AN IMMUNE SYSTEM WON’T BLOW UP OVER!!!