So I'm pretty healthy usually. For a guy my age, my only ongoing problems really are being somewhat overweight and I have the beginnings of a cataract in
my left eye. No big deal.
I just have this one thing that occasionally kicks me in the rear. For some unknown reason, completely at random, seemingly not connected to anything specific
like food allergies or environment. I mean - we've never been able to isolate ANY cause for it - I will have an anaphylactic shock attack. You know - the
kind of reaction that a person allergic to bee stings has when stung? The kind that can kill you? Not pretty.
The first one was in 1995 or so. I've had 4 or 5 others since then, seemingly spaced about a year and a half to two years apart. To the point that I'd
taken the precaution of getting a prescription for an Epinephrine auto-injector and having it in the house or the car just in case. The last one happened over
4 years ago, and I was hoping whatever it was was going to leave me the hell alone.
No such luck. Had another attack this morning. Realized what was beginning to happen, grabbed my coat, got the epipen, jabbed myself in the thigh with it, and
drove myself to the nearest emergency room. (seeing as how I hadn't had to use the Epipen in so long, it was actually past it's expiration date by a
couple of years, I found out later. But it did it's job well enough, surprisingly.) They hit me with some more epinephrine and steroids and I almost felt silly for even going as good as I was feeling within an hour. But I knew better. I might've fought it off myself
with oral anti-histimines, or maybe not. But I wasn't willing to take a chance, because this was ramping up to be a full blown attack, I could tell, not
just a case of hives or something. Shortness of breath, swelling in the face and hands, the whole deal.
*Sigh* Merry Christmas, and here's the emergency room hospital bill...
When I get a another job and have enough money to look into this, I'm thinking of getting the full investigative treatment and find out WHAT THE HELL
causes this!
my left eye. No big deal.
I just have this one thing that occasionally kicks me in the rear. For some unknown reason, completely at random, seemingly not connected to anything specific
like food allergies or environment. I mean - we've never been able to isolate ANY cause for it - I will have an anaphylactic shock attack. You know - the
kind of reaction that a person allergic to bee stings has when stung? The kind that can kill you? Not pretty.
The first one was in 1995 or so. I've had 4 or 5 others since then, seemingly spaced about a year and a half to two years apart. To the point that I'd
taken the precaution of getting a prescription for an Epinephrine auto-injector and having it in the house or the car just in case. The last one happened over
4 years ago, and I was hoping whatever it was was going to leave me the hell alone.
No such luck. Had another attack this morning. Realized what was beginning to happen, grabbed my coat, got the epipen, jabbed myself in the thigh with it, and
drove myself to the nearest emergency room. (seeing as how I hadn't had to use the Epipen in so long, it was actually past it's expiration date by a
couple of years, I found out later. But it did it's job well enough, surprisingly.) They hit me with some more epinephrine and steroids and I almost felt silly for even going as good as I was feeling within an hour. But I knew better. I might've fought it off myself
with oral anti-histimines, or maybe not. But I wasn't willing to take a chance, because this was ramping up to be a full blown attack, I could tell, not
just a case of hives or something. Shortness of breath, swelling in the face and hands, the whole deal.
*Sigh* Merry Christmas, and here's the emergency room hospital bill...
When I get a another job and have enough money to look into this, I'm thinking of getting the full investigative treatment and find out WHAT THE HELL
causes this!
