Stuck like a Guinea Pig

As ias has posted elsewhere, the three of us (including the garklet) are taking part in a clinical study of the effects of maternal diet on allergies in infants. We had our first appointment today, which included allergy scratch tests for both of us.

This is one of the main reasons (apart from the furtherance of Science) that I'm happy to take part in this study; I suffer from hayfever for about four months every year, and I was curious about which allergens I was sensitive to. Grass pollen showed up as I expected, leaving me with a larger welt than the positive control of histamine. Tree pollen also showed up, which would explain why my hayfever has been getting earlier in recent years. Less expected were the slight responses to dogs (just as well I prefer cats) and to peanuts (ironic, given how much I eat them). I'm wishing that I'd taken a photo of the marks.

ias had no marks bar that for the histamine, and that faded away pretty quickly. Nice to know that one of us is healthy...

Stuck like a Guinea Pig

As ias has posted elsewhere, the three of us (including the garklet) are taking part in a clinical study of the effects of maternal diet on allergies in infants. We had our first appointment today, which included allergy scratch tests for both of us.

This is one of the main reasons (apart from the furtherance of Science) that I'm happy to take part in this study; I suffer from hayfever for about four months every year, and I was curious about which allergens I was sensitive to. Grass pollen showed up as I expected, leaving me with a larger welt than the positive control of histamine. Tree pollen also showed up, which would explain why my hayfever has been getting earlier in recent years. Less expected were the slight responses to dogs (just as well I prefer cats) and to peanuts (ironic, given how much I eat them). I'm wishing that I'd taken a photo of the marks.

ias had no marks bar that for the histamine, and that faded away pretty quickly. Nice to know that one of us is healthy...

Another book meme

This one is quite familiar - I did a variant some time ago:

Grab your nearest book, go the 123rd page, find the fifth sentence and type that and the two sentences after it.

The book is Joe Sacco's graphic novel Palestine; I'm equating a text box with a sentence and assuming that the order is strictly top-to-bottom and left-to-right (it would be rather hard to do this with some of my other comics).

Soldiers!

the kids are running

hurling stones over the bus

Another book meme

This one is quite familiar - I did a variant some time ago:

Grab your nearest book, go the 123rd page, find the fifth sentence and type that and the two sentences after it.

The book is Joe Sacco's graphic novel Palestine; I'm equating a text box with a sentence and assuming that the order is strictly top-to-bottom and left-to-right (it would be rather hard to do this with some of my other comics).

Soldiers!

the kids are running

hurling stones over the bus