Alright, I've been wondering for the longest time...what does the D mean in DH, DS, and such? It's obvious what the other letters are, but I'm constantly trying to figure out what the D is. I feel kind of dumb in this instance.
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I don't know about Jessica's kids... but my daughter's entire lower half of her body was the nastiest looking, bloody (because she scratched all the time) mess of eczema that I've ever seen. It was horrible, and cost us countless hours in the doctors office, with numerous baffled doctors. After she ate Cashew Chicken (her first exposure to cashews), and ended up in the hospital, we learned she had nut allergies. She hasn't had ANY eczema ever since she stopped eating nuts of all kinds.
Even when I was nursing - she had eczema. BUT, I used to eat nuts frequently as a protein source (before I found out I was allergic to peanuts and walnuts). My reaction to nuts is no where near what my kid's reaction is, but the doc said I could get there quickly, so I can't eat nuts, either, now.
Um yeah...John's was also out of control. His was the worst. This is a pic of when it was NOT bad at all...it got much worse before we took him to the ER at Children's Hospital in Seattle only for them to tell us it was extremely angry eczema. WARNING: REALLY ICKY PICTURE! Scroll down or scroll fast to miss it
For those with EGG ALLERGIES !!!! Check out (dare I say it) Duck eggs. Many people who can't eat chicken eggs can eat duck eggs or quail eggs. I can tell you I have eaten duck eggs and if somebody fed em to ya you wouldn't know the difference.
I'm waiting to try them. When I get the A-OK from my allergist. I *almost* tried them when Jessica gave me a couple, but thought better of it.
My allergist wants me to try to be as allergen-clean with my diet for at least a year since my allergies were so bad. Being "highly allergic" to 31 of 30 tested environmental allergens, plus egg, cinnamon, garlic, nuts, and ham/pork she pretty much said my immune system was in the toilet. I get allergy shots for 20 of my allergens, and will for quite a few years. They won't do shots for more than that because it would be too dangerous. She said after my immune systems gets stronger, I could start trying things to see how my body reacts. Unfortunately, my reaction is usually a swollen throat.
The good news is when my first three chickens were babies, I couldn't even be near them without a face mask on. I am getting allergy shots for feathers, and I have had very little reaction to the 4 chicks that are in the brooder in my living room! I told my allergist I had them, and she said the allergy shots must be working.
I understand Jess. My poor kids and DH have to deal with me overreacting when they eat my favorite foods in front of me. Now, when they eat eggs, I usually go work in the back yard. It's tough. Recently, I didn't want to go to a party because it was a big spaghetti feed, and spaghetti is my absolute favorite food. So is garlic bread - and I can't have either. I told him to take the kids and go without me. He didn't go. I felt bad afterward. I should have just sucked it up and gone. Wish I could have a do-over on that. I know DH and the kids were disappointed.
Thanks FlyRobinFly! She seems to be doing well. It's shocking to me just how well she's doing, didn't expect her to go about her day as if nothing happened.
Wheew, guess we dodged a bullet.
Nikki, you would be suprised at what a chicken can survive. The one thing they have a hard time fighting off is respitory issues, but with injuries, they amaze me! I had a dog chew on one of my hens like a chew toy and she came through it. Never laid another egg, but she lived. I am glad she is doing well.
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Imagine that nasty red eczema on John's leg... that's what my daughter's entire bottom, all the way around both of her entire legs from bottom to ankle, her feet, and part of her stomach and back... that was my daughter for the first few years of her life.
It was so bad one doctor had our entire family use a very expensive cream, that, turns out was highly carcinogenic, because he was absolutely certain she had been infested with some sort of insect that *everyone* in the family would catch from her. Every one of us had to cover our entire bodies with this dangerous cream that was about $200 per person, then wrap ourselves in plastic wrap and sleep in it. Not only did the nasty cream not help, but when the next pediatrician found out we had used that cream he was P.O.'d beyond belief. He said that stuff was so dangerous and our family should have never been exposed to it. Esp. since cancer runs in my husband's family. He said no doctor should have ever prescribed that for a family, let alone young children.
If they would have just tested her for allergies, we would have been saved so much grief. They didn't test her until she almost died from the Cashew Chicken.
So...busy day, including moving cattle down the hill and sorting the cows out while leaving the calves in the corrall to start weaning. It's less stressful to keep them in social contact but physically separated before they're moved in with all the other weanlings, and especially to give them one stressor at a time: no nursing first, and then exposure to new members of their herd. Sprite, the youngest calf, gets to stick around: she's barely five months old and nowhere near ready to wean. The bull calves we'd left entire in the spring got banded today: the drought in the midwest killed the market for bulls, and it's unlikely there will be much of a breeding stock market until next fall, assuming that there's rain next summer, so they're going to be fed as beef.
I have two cows I'm going to have to cull this year, I think-a fifteen year old who's showing every sign of being toothless, and an eight year old who just didn't put weight on herself or her calf for three years running.
The chickens are looking better every day; I bought some safflower seed on an impulse yesterday for protein supplement but they are unenthused about it. I can't handle sunflower seeds or inhale their dust, so to feed them I'd have to have somebody else to fill the feeders.
Yeah, it's still sitting in the bowls: not nummy, apparently. I'll hang a seed feeder for the flock of Golden Crowned Sparrows who winter here (I have one pair that nests here, and 40-60 that show up just before Halloween every year; they otherwise mostly eat mummified blackberries and snowberries). I can probably handle shelled sunflower seeds, if I'm careful, but the in-shell BOSS makes my skin break out like poison oak, and I'm told that I should never, ever breathe the stuff. I'm also going to try some alfalfa pellets tomorrow (they're 16% protein).
Next yeat I'm going to remember to hold back a few dozen eggs in September so I can have easy supplements for moulting time!
Speaking of which: I have boneless pork ribs tha got badly freezer burned: what's your opinion of slow-braising those and chopping them for the chickens? Last year I had extra hamburger, but there's been an interruption in that flow due to mere reality (mostly autootive, although the fact that the guy who was doing home slaughter lost his driver's license is not helpful).
Um yeah...John's was also out of control. His was the worst. This is a pic of when it was NOT bad at all...it got much worse before we took him to the ER at Children's Hospital in Seattle only for them to tell us it was extremely angry eczema. WARNING: REALLY ICKY PICTURE! Scroll down or scroll fast to miss it
I'm waiting to try them. When I get the A-OK from my allergist. I *almost* tried them when Jessica gave me a couple, but thought better of it.
My allergist wants me to try to be as allergen-clean with my diet for at least a year since my allergies were so bad. Being "highly allergic" to 31 of 30 tested environmental allergens, plus egg, cinnamon, garlic, nuts, and ham/pork she pretty much said my immune system was in the toilet. I get allergy shots for 20 of my allergens, and will for quite a few years. They won't do shots for more than that because it would be too dangerous. She said after my immune systems gets stronger, I could start trying things to see how my body reacts. Unfortunately, my reaction is usually a swollen throat.
The good news is when my first three chickens were babies, I couldn't even be near them without a face mask on. I am getting allergy shots for feathers, and I have had very little reaction to the 4 chicks that are in the brooder in my living room! I told my allergist I had them, and she said the allergy shots must be working.
I understand Jess. My poor kids and DH have to deal with me overreacting when they eat my favorite foods in front of me. Now, when they eat eggs, I usually go work in the back yard. It's tough. Recently, I didn't want to go to a party because it was a big spaghetti feed, and spaghetti is my absolute favorite food. So is garlic bread - and I can't have either. I told him to take the kids and go without me. He didn't go. I felt bad afterward. I should have just sucked it up and gone. Wish I could have a do-over on that. I know DH and the kids were disappointed.
Oh, those poor babies!!!! That had to drive you absolutely nuts not knowing what was causing it and what to do about it!!! How irate were you, Renee, with that idiot doctor???? It amazes me the lack of sense some doctors have! I occasionally fight with rashes on my belly or thighs that drive me nuts (I have been dealing with one for a month now) but nothing NEAR as bad as that.
Clearly those of you commenting negatively have NEVER dealt with food allergies or intolerances. It's not by choice that we eat the way we do. We were quite happy in our old lifestyle, minus the horrendous eczema that plagued every square inch of my dear children and the constant throwing up and diarrhea. Yeah...I'd rather eat the way my body needs to eat to be happy and healthy.
Easy Jess. It's all in fun. While yes I don't have to deal with the food issues you do. Due to DW being diabetic I have a different issue to deal with. I have to look at foods and guesstimate the carbs. I also have to be able to snap calculate how much insulin to dose. Yeah this kind of stuff sucks but it's life. Ya just gotta go at it like eatin an effaneffalant! One bite at a tyme!!!
