Urticaria.. aka Hives are painful, they itch like crazy and erupt on 'tender' skin, like on the inside of your thighs, your stomach and underneath your arms and elbows.
She went back to Moorfields and showed the hives, which were monstrously angry looking lumps to her consultant , who said "Huh, boy oh boy, you're allergic to the preservative in the drops".
And then she remembered having had a severe reaction to the Anti-Tetanus injection that she had when she'd first started working on the allotments all those years ago.
So her eye drops were changed to preservative free prescription and the hives went away.
Recently, she's had more than a few erupt which she put down to eating Maneesh when she is with her Lebanese friends or having tea with Tereza who served pretty little tarts from Paul. Both of course, containing wheat. which she should know better not to eat.
Normally her hives blow away quite quickly, but despite not eating wheat since Tuesday, she has a couple of 'real corkers' which she is trying hard to ignore as they're seriously itchy.
And as one of them became bigger and more itchy by the minute.. she went through what she's eaten over the past few days and has found out oatmeal, from which her beloved oat cakes are made, clementines, satsumas and avocados are all potential causes of hives.
AVOCADOS! She squeaked in a very aggrieved
tone of voice, 'I knew that they are poisonous for parrots but I had no idea they could cause hives! Oh, Boo-Hoo'.
Now she'll have to do an elimination diet to see who the culprit is. It won't start today for she and I have gorged on everything.. she had an avocado, we've had teeny clementines, lots of oatcakes and are now nibbling dried Light Mulberries.
To cheer us up and to change the conversation.. BUB's coming to stay here when we go away for a few days in April.
BUB will spend one night with us before we go, so we can show him everything, then we'll go away, BUB will move into our bedroom and Jack..
No, you don't know about him.. he's the son of BUB's brother which makes him mama's 2nd cousin and BUB's nephew.. Jack will arrive and he'll sleep on the big sofa in the sitting room.
She will leave her museum cards for them and they'll have a happy time.
She had never experienced anything like a hive, or so she thought, until she started using the drops prescribed for her Open Angled Glaucoma and they erupted all over her body!
She went back to Moorfields and showed the hives, which were monstrously angry looking lumps to her consultant , who said "Huh, boy oh boy, you're allergic to the preservative in the drops".
And then she remembered having had a severe reaction to the Anti-Tetanus injection that she had when she'd first started working on the allotments all those years ago.
So her eye drops were changed to preservative free prescription and the hives went away.
Recently, she's had more than a few erupt which she put down to eating Maneesh when she is with her Lebanese friends or having tea with Tereza who served pretty little tarts from Paul. Both of course, containing wheat. which she should know better not to eat.
Normally her hives blow away quite quickly, but despite not eating wheat since Tuesday, she has a couple of 'real corkers' which she is trying hard to ignore as they're seriously itchy.
And as one of them became bigger and more itchy by the minute.. she went through what she's eaten over the past few days and has found out oatmeal, from which her beloved oat cakes are made, clementines, satsumas and avocados are all potential causes of hives.
AVOCADOS! She squeaked in a very aggrieved
tone of voice, 'I knew that they are poisonous for parrots but I had no idea they could cause hives! Oh, Boo-Hoo'.
Now she'll have to do an elimination diet to see who the culprit is. It won't start today for she and I have gorged on everything.. she had an avocado, we've had teeny clementines, lots of oatcakes and are now nibbling dried Light Mulberries.
To cheer us up and to change the conversation.. BUB's coming to stay here when we go away for a few days in April.
BUB will spend one night with us before we go, so we can show him everything, then we'll go away, BUB will move into our bedroom and Jack..
No, you don't know about him.. he's the son of BUB's brother which makes him mama's 2nd cousin and BUB's nephew.. Jack will arrive and he'll sleep on the big sofa in the sitting room.
She will leave her museum cards for them and they'll have a happy time.
Now it is time to bathe and put drops in and wash supper plates etc. Then we will settle down with a new book and get ready for the weekend.
Her marvelous Bissell vacuum has to go back to the factory to be serviced, the couriers are coming to collect it on Monday, it's in a huge cardboard box which I was told "no, you are not to nibble or chew it GeeGee".. how boring, I bet Beaky would find it reallyreally crunchy!
See how 'hard done' by, I am..
GeeGee Parrot.
January 12th, 2018.
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