In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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It's so weird... Right now, there is like zero itch anywhere most of the time. But every once in a while it creeps up and it is intense. But that's how it went around this time of day the last two days, so it's probably only is an illusion that it's gone away.
If I can ignore it, the itch goes away. Since my theory of letting the histamine "bleed" out was a bust, I don't want to indulge myself and scratch again until my body looks like the surface of the moon, so I'm going to just try to ignore it today and see what happens.
I got the Benadryl, but I'm going to sit on it for now. I might take it back if I can go without it. It turns out that you can buy a literal boat-load of the generic stuff at Sam's Club for as much as I just paid for 30 tablets. I'm going to have my old man pick some up for me to have on hand whenever he goes the next time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Paper recycling done and some more of the video cabinet in the garbage. Can't do anything more with until the garbage containers are emptied later this week. But a good start made so I am pleased.
Sunny day here today.
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Good to hear Brenda. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:I take it you watered everything well - and perhaps removed flammable mulch? - before you flamed the weeds?
Originally posted by SignyM:
Tested the Weed Dragon (100,000 BTU) and it works SWEET! Let's see if it does to the weeds what they say it does.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Quote:It's so enjoyable to hear of your progress, Brenda!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Video cabinet completely broken down and ready for the garbage over this week.
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I've been thinking about your emergency food, Signy. How does your SO react to beans, blood-sugar-wise? And I'm asking about beans specifically, not beans+ ... grains, veges, etc. Because I took a class in diabetic nutrition, and if your food has more than 5g of fiber per serving, you're allowed to subtract the fiber from the total carbs. And some beans/ legumes have a phenomenal amount of fiber! (according to the USDA).
Here's my fiber list with top amounts of fiber, USDA reference, per 100g (food/ protein/ carbohydrate/ fat/ fiber):
Beans, cranberry (roman), mature seeds, raw 100g 23.03 60.05 1.23 24.7
Beans, french, mature seeds, raw 100g 18.81 64.11 2.02 25.2
Beans, kidney*, all types, mature seeds, raw 100g 23.58 60.01 0.83 24.9
*cook well to remove lectins
Beans, navy, mature seeds, raw 100g 22.33 60.75 1.5 24.4
Beans, small white, mature seeds, raw 100g 21.11 62.25 1.18 24.9
Beans, yellow, mature seeds, raw 100g 22 60.7 2.6 25.1
Lentils, raw 100g 25.8 60.08 1.06 30.5
Peas, split, mature seeds, raw 100g 24.55 60.37 1.16 25.5
All of these are about 40% fiber, except for lentils which are about 50% !!
So you and your SO might be OK with beans, no grains. BTW, beans have a standout amount of protein compared to grains. To make a balanced protein, iirc, I calculated out once that you'd need about 8x grains by weight to balance out the protein in beans. For additional protein, dry powdered milk would provide both calcium and protein; whey protein provides protein but no calcium or milk sugar. Oil could make up the balance of calories.
For DD perhaps canned meat - perhaps no-salt-added canned tuna, no-salt-added canned salmon, and other canned meat (chicken, beef, spam, but watch the sodium!) and as a relief from tedium and additional/ alternate protein source, dry powdered milk and/ or whey protein, and grains, plus oil to make up calories.
BTW - I was in Buffalo for the Blizzard of '77. It was a great way to empty the frig and cupboards. But we got down to eating oats and mustard, after we used up the mayo for oats and mayo. So as you suggested in your post - dried herbs and spices (Book's ticket onto the ship!), and dried or canned veges and maybe fruits.
ETA: If you're used to a daily dose of nicotine, caffeine, or alcohol, don't forget to include them in your hunker-down supply! Going through withdrawal could make you grumpy, give you headaches, and destroy your sleep!
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Jack, I was thinking about your situation. It's possible either you have dermatographia, which causes hives-like rashes that don't seem to be allergy-related https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dermatographia/symptoms
-causes/syc-20371411 or you have hives https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hives-and-angioedema/sy
mptoms-causes/syc-20354908 .
Since hives and angioedema are both allergy-related, I worry that if you have one, you could have the other. As I wrote earlier, I have both been given by a doctor and taken myself more than 1 benadryl at a time for allergy-asthma (multiple times); but the one time I took more than 1 for hives, 4 hours later when my blood levels dropped below some apparent effective minimum, my tongue decided to swell up. Fun times. Not. I was worried. But since the swelling was so slow-moving, I took more benadryl and hurried my heinie over to the ER, where they prescribed a short course of oral steroids for the hives and an Epipen ... just in case.
The moral of the story is, if you take benadryl, take it during the day so you can monitor yourself when it wears off, and be prepared to hurry to an ER or call 911, just in case. Also know that angioedema can be fast-moving! Swallowing more benadryl might be far too slow to counter it, and worse, might be completely ineffective because it only targets the initiation of the biological cascade that leads to angioedema. Once you get past the initiation, the process isn't addressable by benadryl. Back in the day, before people could carry around Epipens and treat themselves - and THEN go to an ER!, when I got my EMT license, angioedema was considered once of the 3 true emergency situations that warranted lights, sirens, and blowing through red lights. (The other 2 were placentia previa and rupturing aortic aneurysm.) (ETA: I have NEVER been able to find out if inhalable epinephrine for asthma - OTC albuterol - can counter angioedema of the tongue and airways.)
Note that Epipen is a brand name for auto-injectable epinephrine. THERE ARE CHEAPER ALTERNATIVES! Search for Epipen alternatives.
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Quote:I am wildly allergic to mosquitoes. When my allergist asked what I was allergic to, I mentioned mosquitoes. I could see her Texas eyes kind of roll a bit (Doesn't EVERYONE itch with mosquito bites???) but when I was tested with a "poke test", as BRENDA calls it, out of the several dozen things I'm allergic to mosquito kinda stuck out like a sore thumb.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's so weird... Right now, there is like zero itch anywhere most of the time. But every once in a while it creeps up and it is intense. But that's how it went around this time of day the last two days, so it's probably only is an illusion that it's gone away.
If I can ignore it, the itch goes away. Since my theory of letting the histamine "bleed" out was a bust, I don't want to indulge myself and scratch again until my body looks like the surface of the moon, so I'm going to just try to ignore it today and see what happens.
I got the Benadryl, but I'm going to sit on it for now. I might take it back if I can go without it. It turns out that you can buy a literal boat-load of the generic stuff at Sam's Club for as much as I just paid for 30 tablets. I'm going to have my old man pick some up for me to have on hand whenever he goes the next time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Which is to say ... you've discovered what I've discovered. IF you can get thru that first 20 minutes of INSANELY intense itching and NOT SCRATCH, you're golden. (At least for the next 12-36 hours.) But if you scratch, it's like you shmear the stuff under your skin and you may be in for another 12-24 hours of hell.
I tried all kinds of topical (skin) stuff ... benadryl gel, calamime lotion, pramoxine HCl, and various steroid creams and lodocaine creams, and the only things that worked for me were 4% lidocaine ointment(Rx) and plain old vaseline. And even then, I'm not sure if the lidocaine ointment wasn't some sort of placebo effect. (BTW the difference between an "ointment", "cream", and "lotion" is the amount of water in the base. Ointment is just vaseline, "cream" is vaseline or oil emulsified with water to be spreadable, and "lotion" has even more water than that.)
Try a bath in baking soda if the itching gets to be too much, and let me know how it worked for you!
Also, pay attention to KIKI. She knows far more about medicine and biology than the rest of the board put together.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good to hear Brenda.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Thanks Jack.
Now, I just have to get a ride to somewhere like an IKEA to get a bookcase that I repurpose into a video/DVD holder. It needs to have at least 5 shelves because there is no room for anything that goes wide.
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Quote:It's so enjoyable to hear of your progress, Brenda!
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Video cabinet completely broken down and ready for the garbage over this week.
It feels good to be able to get things done after being stuck for so long.
It was also pretty easy to break down. Makes me glad I kept my dad's hammer. I did need something with some heft to do it.
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