It’s allergy season here in the White Mountains of Arizona and everywhere you go, you see people sneezing, blowing their noses, and rubbing their red, itchy eyes. Both Terry and son-in-law Kenny have been suffering with it miserably. Yesterday afternoon, Kenny went to the doctor for an allergy shot and he said by the time he was back out in the parking lot, he was already feeling better. The soonest appointment Terry could get was for tomorrow. We are both hoping she has the same good results as Kenny. I’ve been fortunate that it hasn’t bothered me yet, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed it won’t.
However, I do have to go to the outpatient department at the hospital this afternoon for an ultrasound for a possible aortic aneurysm. I don’t have any symptoms, but apparently, they are often asymptomatic and my primary care provider just wants to be sure everything is okay. I’m not really worried about it. Terry’s dad has had one for years in his abdomen, and though his doctors monitor it, there has not been a problem.
In other news, our daughter Tiffany has a side gig going on crafting handmade soaps, and they seem to sell out almost as fast as she makes them. She and Kenny make their soap in small batches, the way things used to be made. Slowly, carefully, and on purpose. Every bar is poured, cut, wrapped, and sent out with care. Check out her website with a link to her Etsy shop at Urban Homestead Co-op. Terry really loves the facial soap, and Kenny told me they are developing a soap for mechanics and others who get their hands dirty and need them clean at the end of the day.
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Ask Kenny if he heard of using used coffee grounds in soap – kinda like using pumas.
I have been on allergy shots for 19 years and have finally progressed from 4 shots every week to 3 shots once a month. I’m somewhat confused about Kenny getting one allergy shot…….isn’t that actually a steroid injection? Typically you have to be tested for allergies and then the medication is tailored to what you are allergies are.
Not long ago, I had to be tested for allergies to metals and other chemicals as I’m allergic to dissolving sutures and we were trying to determine what might cause the allergy. The only allergy that tested positive was formaldehyde. Unfortunately formaldehyde is in sutures, food, wood products, fabric, medications and just about everything these days.
Please take care of that aortic aneurysm. My grandfather died because he had one that burst. Both my father and my uncle both had surgery to correct theirs.