This is not the right place to post this, but I am anyway. Actually, maybe it is the right place. I have environmental allergies. My sinus fill, my ears block, my lymph nodes swell, my head hurts, my back hurts and I have vertigo. My point here is that I can pinpoint to the year that these problems started. They started in 1967 when I was 17 years old. I remember it. We were driving home form a high school basketball game. Daddy was driving and we had a bunch of kids in the car. I kept feeling something dripping down the back of my throat. I years later that it was sinus drainage. I had never had it before, but have had it almost continually since. I had 4 good years when we lived on the coast. I had no sinus infections, no allergies, nothing, not even a cold. We moved to Central Texas and the trouble began.
Every fall in September, I would start to feel really bad. I would feel like I was burning up with fever, but would actually be below normal. I would go to the doctor, nothing. They could find nothing. I went to an allergist. Paid for the testing and the only thing I was allergic to was the histamine they used as a control. I did find a doctor that believed me and put me on a new drug called Seldine. I felt great for the first time since moving to Central Texas. But it did not stop the sinus infections. I went to an ENT. He went into my sinuses with a scope. Nothing. Nothing was out of the ordinary. But I was and am still plagued with sinus infections almost constantly. The doctor who had put me on the allergy med told me that his guess was that I had environmental allergies. That the allergic reactions I was having were enhanced by all the pollutants in the air. Well, they have only gotten worse and I have paid for allergy testing 4 times and every time the same-no allergies. So I deal with it until it percolates into a bacterial infection. They I take antibiotics to bring it back in control. The point of all this is that, in my experience and opinion, all this is caused by all the pollutants that were, are and still being pumped into the atmosphere. We are destroying our own species and are too stupid to realize it. Which brings me to why I feel free to post this on my blog about my pet. Daisy. Daisy was my Doberman foundling. She showed up in my son's driveway at about 5 months old. He fed her, she was starving. After about a month, he decided that she was his. So he brought her to me to take her to get spayed. He has already gotten her shots. I took her for spaying and they told me she had severe hip dysplasia in both hips. So after she recovered from the spay, we did surgery on the worst hip. It was so severe they had to put a bar inside and a stabilizer bar on the outside. Fast forward about 5 years. She was not eating and when she did she would throw up. She was in pain. I took her in at 6:30 one night. My vet told me that the suspected arthritis in her spine. He did x-rays. He was right.
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