Why the People of India walked out

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71. Hard to know which ones were

the worst culprits since the swellings merged together.

But tests by a different allergist, done one at a time, with a nurse at my side the whole time, showed the strongest reactions to tree and grass pollens, rabbits, and molds. There is a mold with a multi-syllable name that I can't remember which produced an instant, rapid reaction that made the nurse leap into action. The spores are active in moist, cold temperatures, e.g. early spring, and midwinter thaws. Outside of a test setting, it causes me some pretty strong asthma attacks, earaches, and headaches. Another type of mold produces drowsiness to the point of conking out. Cannot eat mushrooms without severe upper abdominal pain from internal hives and swelling.

Other allergens: pyrethrins (marigolds), hemlock trees (on contact), maple, poplar, and dandeliin pollens, pine trees and scents, peanuts (but remarkably mild reaction), cucumber scents and soaps, birds, several foods, latex, nickel alloys in clothing snaps and costume jewelry, 3 types of meds, and most vaccines due to the bases used in them.

But, I can't live in a bubble, so I avoid the worst of them and take antihistamines. Not as limiting as it sounds because the pollens are only in the spring. Rabbits are easy to avoid. Pines are only a problem in enclosed spaces, not outdoors.

An irony that amuses me is that I am NOT allergic to the one thing that most people are - poison ivy.

Did not occur to me to sue at the time because I knew nothing about normal allergy testing procedures. Did not realize until much later how negligent the doc had been.

At least I think he was scared out of being skeptical of patients who come in reporting numerous symptoms and substances. From his perspective, he dodged a bullet. How would he explain losing a patient from testing right in the office?