I am accustomed to wear gloves and so so all the time but still have problem, However, I did not wear gloves when I started to harvest those tomatoes as this is the first time for me to do edible gardening. It is my son’s project. I now know better
With chronic urticaria diagnosed as auto immune disease, I am quite sensitive. We had to eradicate over 100 rose bushes when I became allergic , and now, I am allergic to conifers but am not about to eradicate them as they hold precious memories. cannot prune them myself.
Weather has been very hot, yesterday was over 100 degrees, so in such instance, I do not wear long sleeve shirts.
I consulted with local allergist re chronic urticaria but not very helpful
I am taking 2 kinds of antihistamine now, one that is not drowsy, and one drowsy
I also take topical corticosteroids, have epi pen on hand , take Histamine 2 blockers when I get GI problem
I have seen a local dermatologist before but not helpful
There is a man made drug omalizumab (Xolair) but if the allergist and dermatologist do not suggest that, I am not going to push them. They already think I am too pushy as I have never practiced where I reside. I am a stranger to the docs here.
There is of course immune suppressing drugs but I would not want to resort to that unless this is life threatening knowing what my husband had gone thru with them.
Thanks
Man-made (monoclonal) antibodies. The drug omalizumab (Xolair) is very effective against a type of difficult-to-treat chronic hives. It’s an injectable medicine that’s usually given once a month.
Immune-suppressing drugs. Options include cyclosporine (Gengraf, Neoral, others) and tacrolimus (Astagraft XL, Prograf, Protopic).
Good visit with Mom today, the day after her 89th birthday. But it was hotter than Hades out there, so errand-running after my visit wasn’t pleasant.
But it all got done. Dinner was already planned to be a cool one, even though there was some stove top cooking to get me there.
Lemon-Tarragon Chicken Salad on top of mixed lettuces, Ditalini Pasta Salad with fresh corn, peas, red bell pepper and basil with a champagne vinaigrette, and deviled eggs with Aleppo pepper and chives.
Libation was three (THREE!) vodka, lemonade and ginger beer drinks. Gotta keep hydrated, right?
The movie will be “Aquaman”. That’ll be nice and chill.
After a long, hot but FUN day checking out the Apollo 11 festivities at Draper Lab and JFK Library, spring onion had leftover pizza from Area 4 (a very good pizza joint in Cambridge). I managed to put together a rice noodle salad, dressed with lots of fish sauce, lime juice, touch of brown sugar, shaved carrot, lightly pickled cukes, mint, Thai basil, and cilantro. Protein was mashed up tofu and a veggie burger from the freezer which were sautéed with garlic. Hit the spot! B finished off some leftover spaghetti and garlic scape pesto, and (yes, you guessed it) salmon. He’ll have the rice noodles tomorrow.
We had another excellent dinner at Laurel and Sage. Besides the usually awesome beet salad and soft shell crabs we had a very refreshing heirloom tomato panzanella salad with ripe peaches. The croutons had a nice parmesan flavor. I had melt in your mouth medium rare grilled wagyu filet medallions with bordelaise sauce, that had a nice char to it. The steak came with heirloom tomato salad, but since we already ordered that for an appetizer, the chef made me a nice flight of purees (sweet potato, sunchoke, and regular potato) with steamed spinach.
The steak went great with Cooper and Thief red blend aged in bourbon barrels for three months.
Dinner was kind of a fail. I put a homemade mustardy balsamic dressing, thyme, and maple syrup on wild salmon fillets and broiled. In retrospect they would have been better with just salt and pepper and grilled or cedar-planked. Sides were brown rice cooked in leftover green bean braising liquid with bacon, and zuke noodles. Very underwhelmed.
Mazel Tov to your Mom on her 89th…I said Mazel Tov to my mom for her 89th on Wednesday!
I guess we are real lucky!
PS…been too damn hot to cook here after returning from Florida yesterday!
