Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Looking for allergy suggestions and more Q+A

I hope everyone is ok from the storm.  I was going to post this last week, but the storm happened, and we had no power or internet for some time.  All is ok now and pretty much back to normal.

Allison has been so understanding and helpful with my allergies.  Most other people I have dated ranged from tolerating it to getting annoyed or mad at me about them.  Allison bends over backwards to do all she can to be helpful.  I feel kinda bad that she is doing so much for me.

One of her favorite things in the world is flowers, and when we started dating she got rid of all of them and never got any more.  All she has now is some pictures of flowers.  I feel like I want to help her out a bit and have her able to have some flowers again.  I always say that I am allergic to all flowers, but thats not exactly true.  I have had allergic reactions to flowers I have come in contact to in the past, and I just assumed I am allergic to all types just to make things easy if people ask.  I figure there must be a few flowers I am not allergic to, and I'd like to be able to let Allison enjoy something she really likes.

What I want to do is see if there are any kinds of flowers I am not allergic to.  I want to wait til Jan or so to try it out, when I have the least number of things bothering my nose.  The best idea I could come up with is to have a flower near me and have a fan making a slight breeze and seeing if I start to have a reaction.  I think thats the closest to how I would be exposed to a flower that is in a place I am in.  I would usually avoid sniffing a flower or brushing myself against one so I dont want to test it that way.

I want a few opinions on this.  Is this a silly idea, or would it work ok?  Would there be a better way to do it?  Thank you for any ideas.


 And here is a bit more of Q+A

Q: You said 'we' when you talked about precautions you take at home....does this mean you have roommates? Is it hard to get them to understand/help your allergies?
A:  I mainly stay with Allison at her place so she is the one I was talking about.  I have had roomies during my life that kind of run the whole range.  Some understood pretty well, some didn't care much to understand, some were just clueless, and some would try to understand but just not get it.  Luckily I usually had ones that were understanding to some level, or at least tried.  The hardest one to deal with though was one who was trying to be nice and understanding but just really failing at it.  Made it hard for me to say anything to her because she was trying so hard.

Like I always say, keep the questions coming.  It gives me ideas on what to write about!