God; unfortunately I missed your live show today 😕 but I knew you would share it again later, so thanks for doing that! Also, I hope you are feeling better??? ❤️
Oh, tell me about it, Lord! I've been massively allergic to just about everything as far back as when I was a tiny kid. :-/
Decades later, I took a standardized scratch test, the one they had 30+ years ago, where they had 28 substances to test and did up my bare back like a spreadsheet: 4 columns, 7 rows, with each "cell" being scritched with a pin dipped in things like Concentrated Liquid Essence of Ragweed Pollen or whatever. The fellow-female med tech said after a period of development, like 30-45 minutes or so, if an area had swollen up to like the size of a nickle or a quarter, it was likely I was allergic to that. Fair enough. :)
After scritching me up, she left through the door behind me to let me "develop," like a roll of film in a darkroom (not everyone will get that reference; this is why Google is a thing ;D). By the time she returned, I was desperately clawing at the mattress of the exam table, looking for lovely cold metal to place my burning skin against to cool off ("Well, let's just see how you're doing..." [shuts door behind her] "It should be -- WOW!!" [not what you want to hear from a med tech :-/] "I've never /seen/ anything like THAT! :D" [also not what you want to hear...]).
Turned out, I had reacted SO BADLY to 21 of the 28 substances that those regions had FUSED into one large, semi-liquid, thin-skinned blasted heath of outrage and inflammation, and the other seven were almost like dime-sized or so. X-P
"Do you have any ice water? Any Sea and Ski suntan lotion left in the fridge?" (our family's go-tos for outraged skin) Head shakes. "What DO you have?!"
"Well, there's this old bottle of Calamine Lotion up on this shelf..." (gets it down, blows off the dust) "Should still be good! :D" I nod. She shakes it up, producing interesting noises from the bottle, opens it and dumps it on my back, where it almost immediately dries into a THICK, CRACKED PASTE that probably looked like a photo of a drought-killed lake, with the soil in large plates. X-P
I had taken the rest of the afternoon off from work to deal with this appointment. I had to put my bra, button-down blouse, and long-strap purse back on (gingerly). "Anything else I need to do? Any paperwork or anything?"
"Nope! You're free to go! :D Just one thing -- don't scratch!"
Outside in the parking lot, this being California, I see very little around but smooooth light poles and smooooth parking meter poles and smooooth building surfaces...and a tiny patch of lawn with a sapling tree, about 6" or less in diameter, but with rough bark. "TREE! YES!! Thank you, God! :D" Run over to tree, do that Bear Thang up against it in delight until the thin skin shreds... X-P Drive /very carefully/ back home, literally on the edge of my seat, in "rush hour" (so no need for fancy driving, thankfully). Get home, take off the blouse ("Eww...hand wash, yes..."), husband comes home.
"Honey? Could you help me in...the /shower/? :D"
"Why, sure! :D" (flings off clothes on his way to the bedroom; comes back:)
"Woo! Who mugged you with a cat-o-nine-tails? :-/"
"Is it bleeding back there?"
"Nope, just oozing a lot."
I don't know what the tech was worried about; every immune response I possessed was OUTRAGED and wouldn't let a SINGLE THING have a chance in hell back there. I didn't even have cool scars afterwards... :(
Haven't seen the podcast yet, but if you're talking about very young kittens, this is true. If they're with their mommies, the mother cats do all the "necessary work" until they're of an age to use the litter box. :-P
“It’s like he’s shit-posting fascism.” 🤣
Love Mohanad!
God; unfortunately I missed your live show today 😕 but I knew you would share it again later, so thanks for doing that! Also, I hope you are feeling better??? ❤️
This is actually from last week, we are not sharing the daily live shows like that. We only post the ones with great guests, and only those segments.
Thanks, feeling a little better, yes. Allergy season is the worst.
Oh, tell me about it, Lord! I've been massively allergic to just about everything as far back as when I was a tiny kid. :-/
Decades later, I took a standardized scratch test, the one they had 30+ years ago, where they had 28 substances to test and did up my bare back like a spreadsheet: 4 columns, 7 rows, with each "cell" being scritched with a pin dipped in things like Concentrated Liquid Essence of Ragweed Pollen or whatever. The fellow-female med tech said after a period of development, like 30-45 minutes or so, if an area had swollen up to like the size of a nickle or a quarter, it was likely I was allergic to that. Fair enough. :)
After scritching me up, she left through the door behind me to let me "develop," like a roll of film in a darkroom (not everyone will get that reference; this is why Google is a thing ;D). By the time she returned, I was desperately clawing at the mattress of the exam table, looking for lovely cold metal to place my burning skin against to cool off ("Well, let's just see how you're doing..." [shuts door behind her] "It should be -- WOW!!" [not what you want to hear from a med tech :-/] "I've never /seen/ anything like THAT! :D" [also not what you want to hear...]).
Turned out, I had reacted SO BADLY to 21 of the 28 substances that those regions had FUSED into one large, semi-liquid, thin-skinned blasted heath of outrage and inflammation, and the other seven were almost like dime-sized or so. X-P
"Do you have any ice water? Any Sea and Ski suntan lotion left in the fridge?" (our family's go-tos for outraged skin) Head shakes. "What DO you have?!"
"Well, there's this old bottle of Calamine Lotion up on this shelf..." (gets it down, blows off the dust) "Should still be good! :D" I nod. She shakes it up, producing interesting noises from the bottle, opens it and dumps it on my back, where it almost immediately dries into a THICK, CRACKED PASTE that probably looked like a photo of a drought-killed lake, with the soil in large plates. X-P
I had taken the rest of the afternoon off from work to deal with this appointment. I had to put my bra, button-down blouse, and long-strap purse back on (gingerly). "Anything else I need to do? Any paperwork or anything?"
"Nope! You're free to go! :D Just one thing -- don't scratch!"
(through clenched-teeth "smile") "Really? Why not?"
"It might get infected! :D"
Outside in the parking lot, this being California, I see very little around but smooooth light poles and smooooth parking meter poles and smooooth building surfaces...and a tiny patch of lawn with a sapling tree, about 6" or less in diameter, but with rough bark. "TREE! YES!! Thank you, God! :D" Run over to tree, do that Bear Thang up against it in delight until the thin skin shreds... X-P Drive /very carefully/ back home, literally on the edge of my seat, in "rush hour" (so no need for fancy driving, thankfully). Get home, take off the blouse ("Eww...hand wash, yes..."), husband comes home.
"Honey? Could you help me in...the /shower/? :D"
"Why, sure! :D" (flings off clothes on his way to the bedroom; comes back:)
"Woo! Who mugged you with a cat-o-nine-tails? :-/"
"Is it bleeding back there?"
"Nope, just oozing a lot."
I don't know what the tech was worried about; every immune response I possessed was OUTRAGED and wouldn't let a SINGLE THING have a chance in hell back there. I didn't even have cool scars afterwards... :(
Been having trouble watching the live broadcasts. 15 seconds at a time then I have to re-enter. But at least I can watch it here. Thank you God
Cats have to be shitted 😂 who knew?
Haven't seen the podcast yet, but if you're talking about very young kittens, this is true. If they're with their mommies, the mother cats do all the "necessary work" until they're of an age to use the litter box. :-P
OMG yes! The Colbert WHCD was epic. I still rewatch it!