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CycloneErik said:
Follow-up from my physical last week. Doctor and I figured that we might as well test everything before I join the uninsured and unemployed.

Been battling with my metabolism ever since this allergy battle began. We're learning now that I'm right on the edge of a hypothyroid condition, like pretty much there, and things seem to indicate that chemical allergies really wreak havoc on your thyroid and subsequently the metabolism.

Quietly using Samuel L. Jackson's favorite word for the family members who continue to refuse to adjust and instead keep exposing me to this stuff. I think we're looking at a lifetime of medication to keep the thyroid in line.

Rant over. The punching bags will endure some extra motivation tomorrow morning.
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I suffer from allergies as well. Never knew how much stuff I was allergic to until I got tested last spring. Mine are probably quite different from yours - animal dander, pollen, grasses, some trees, chicken feathers, molds, etc. Mostly respiratory, but in extreme cases I get hives and restricted breathing.

So I'm sympathetic to your agonies.....non-allergic folks can never really know how awful it is. Hope your doc(s) can find something that works for you.

Is your daughter showing signs of being allergic?
 
CycloneErik said:
Follow-up from my physical last week. Doctor and I figured that we might as well test everything before I join the uninsured and unemployed.

Been battling with my metabolism ever since this allergy battle began. We're learning now that I'm right on the edge of a hypothyroid condition, like pretty much there, and things seem to indicate that chemical allergies really wreak havoc on your thyroid and subsequently the metabolism.

Quietly using Samuel L. Jackson's favorite word for the family members who continue to refuse to adjust and instead keep exposing me to this stuff. I think we're looking at a lifetime of medication to keep the thyroid in line.

Rant over. The punching bags will endure some extra motivation tomorrow morning.
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Will be thinking of you. My sister had thyroid issues for awhile and then got thyroid cancer and had it removed I believe. She is in that same boat and will be taking meds for the rest of her life to do the job of the thyroid.
 
SCyclone said:
I suffer from allergies as well. Never knew how much stuff I was allergic to until I got tested last spring. Mine are probably quite different from yours - animal dander, pollen, grasses, some trees, chicken feathers, molds, etc. Mostly respiratory, but in extreme cases I get hives and restricted breathing.

So I'm sympathetic to your agonies.....non-allergic folks can never really know how awful it is. Hope your doc(s) can find something that works for you.

Is your daughter showing signs of being allergic?
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She has a serious peanut allergy, but we caught that early.
Mine was totally preventable and frankly inexcusable. As things developed, it turns out that a chief instigator has allergy problems and just refuses to be sympathetic because being wrong just isn't part of her lifestyle.
 
jcyclonee said:
Yes, and I kept reminding her about it but she couldn't sit still. She said that Chip and Joanna were tired of looking back at her from the TV.
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SCyclone said:
The vixen had a real wild episode with prednisone. She insisted that I make sure no doctor ever gives it to her again. (She's fairly dramatic, BTW.)
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Cyclones_R_GR8 said:
The first time I was on that stuff it was awful. I would get some severe sort of heartburn for about 60 minutes afterward. I would break out in a sweat and could barely breath. They gave me more when I had shingles but I didn't experience any of that again.
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I've done burst & tapers with prednisone several times now for poison ivy because I react so strongly to the urushiol. I've only had one time that the doc thought I reacted to it, and it was just a mild asthma type wheezing. We now think that may have been more related to my hayfever as I have had wheezing issues during allergy seasons when I'm not on prednisone. I'm glad that's the case, because the prednisone knocks back the poison ivy reactions so much faster than the topicals do. :)
 
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Cybirdy said:
Yesterday I was taking an early morning walk along the same path I take every time and was attacked by damn red wing blackbirds. Like full-on assault complete with dive-bombing and pecking my head. Not cool. Took a different route on my bike ride this morning.
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They are amazingly territorial. Our German "son" was visiting a few years back, and he went for a run on some local backroads. Got dive bombed by the red wings and ran faster to get away from him...then found out he had run into a dead end and had to go back out through the gauntlet again. Yikes!
 
Cybirdy said:
Yesterday I was taking an early morning walk along the same path I take every time and was attacked by damn red wing blackbirds. Like full-on assault complete with dive-bombing and pecking my head. Not cool. Took a different route on my bike ride this morning.
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I hate that. I was attacked regularly by some red wing blackbirds when I used to cycle around Storm Lake in my Young(er) Indiana Jones years.
 
RunninMan said:
My random thoughts for the day:


RT#2: One of my absolute biggest pet peeves is listening to people chew with their mouth open, on food or otherwise. It just makes my skin crawl like nails on a chalkboard or styrofoam rubbing together. My office mate and his friend that is in our office all the time have a habit of chewing on things CONSTANTLY and it drives me absolutely insane. No office supply is safe. Sometimes it's a pen cap or a rubber band. Today one was gnawing on a paperclip (my teeth hurt just listening to it) and the other was chewing on an earphone that he had chewed through (!) earlier in the day. I wanted to throw both of them out the window but I did the mature thing and went to the bathroom, and the water cooler, and the sink to wash out my cup, etc. until one of them left. Maybe one of these days I'll work up the courage to say something about it.
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One of my old bosses had a bad problem with chewing with his mouth open. One of my co-workers asked him, "Does that taste good?" Followed by, "Sounds like it."
 
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SCyclone said:
If they end up having to use the calf puller, I'm out. (I'm betting DH will be, too.)
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Been there for that version with forceps. From what I was told, do not recommend. And the reason there are no baby pictures of me.* My mother pretty much stayed mad at the doctor the rest of her life.



* I make up for it by taking lots of selfies these days. :confused:
 
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VeloClone said:
Dive bombing RWBBs are just another of many legitimate reasons to wear your brain bucket while biking.
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When I was fishing two weeks ago, the route to get to a certain lake was a narrow waterway, with a lot of nesting RWBBs. My boat partner got attacked, while standing up trying to cast. The next day he stayed seated, and had a stare down contest with them. Wish I would've videoed it.
 
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jcyclonee said:
Because of her pneumonia, my wife was on prednisone last week. It was pretty much like she was nesting again. One day, she decided to move all of the furniture in the living room and office and vacuum under it and along the base of the wall and along the ceiling lines. She then decided to organize the closet and bookshelf in the office and had me organize the cords under the desk. She then organized the craft table she uses in the office. I didn't want her working too hard and getting sick again so I helped her with all of this. Here's a little secret I probably shouldn't share but sometimes men go outside to do work so that they don't have to do work inside the house.
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That's the good thing/bad thing about prednisone. Anything more that a touch of it makes you "feel" better than you are because it ***** with your adrenaline. I could use some now since inner sloth is yuge and sitting on my chest and has me pinned to my laptop lazy chair.
 
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oldman said:
When I was fishing two weeks ago, the route to get to a certain lake was a narrow waterway, with a lot of nesting RWBBs. My boat partner got attacked, while standing up trying to cast. The next day he stayed seated, and had a stare down contest with them. Wish I would've videoed it.
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Reminds of summer job on a survey crew back in a previous lifetime and getting dive bombed by those pests.
 
carvers4math said:
https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=176762812&Title=Professor, History of North America before 1800, Open Rank

Saw this John Hopkins one this AM, it looks appropriately vague.
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Yeah, but I'm purely in the 1800s. They're looking for a colonialist or Revolutionary specialist. With the Open Rank thing, they're most likely looking to poach a tenured person from somewhere else. This is one I can't even apply for.

But, if they poach somebody from a teaching-based institution, that could leave an opening for a broad pre-Civil War specialist. The fallout from this search is the key for me.

They have one for Caribbean history today, too. That won't fly, but it would be fun.
 
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