Allergy Testing for Katie

shad­owkatt went back for aller­gy test­ing today, and made it through with­out ana­phy­lax­is this time. Yay! She took steroids for three days before­hand to pre­vent that, as well as hav­ing EMLA cream slathered on her arms an hour before­hand to numb them a bit.

Now she looks like an obses­sive-com­pul­sive hero­in addict.

She isn’t aller­gic to any­thing on the food list, so that’s a plus. She was aller­gic to just about all the molds; rag­weed; john­son grass; wil­low, birch, red maple, and sweet gum trees; dust mites, and cat dander.

So it’s aller­gen bar­ri­ers, air clean­ers, more declut­ter­ing, and week­ly baths for the cat. man­hat­tan, I thought of you while look­ing through the cat­a­log of aller­gy con­trol prod­ucts they sent home with the girl.