| As a boy growing up, I often sneezed for
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| | my body gradually lost its swollen look
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| no reason and sometimes had a problem
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| | and new, pink skin appeared. None of our
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| with my breathing. In college, to take
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| | guests recognized me when I appeared for
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| advantage of a free screening program, I
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| | the first time downstairs.Ten years
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| subjected myself to twenty patch tests.
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| | later, an Army sergeant told me to climb
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| It turned out that I was allergic to
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| | into the rafters of the radio building
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| house dust, phosphates, mold spores,
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| | and vacuum the dust on the beams. My
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| mildew and of all things, my own
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| | warnings of the danger to my health only
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| bacteria.I found out about phosphates the
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| | convinced him that I didn't like the job.
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| hard way. I read somewhere that bat
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| | Fifteen minutes later, he had to take me
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| guano made good fertilizer. If followed
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| | to the hospital.A small, but sudden
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| that the 20,000 bats that lived in our
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| | temperature drop at about sixty-five
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| attic must produce plenty of fertilizer
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| | degrees triggers a catalyst in my blood
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| for my garden (four tomato plants).
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| | causing me to sneeze. Usually I try to
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| After ten minutes I collected about five
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| | avoid going outside at dusk because that
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| pounds of "fertilizer" and two minutes
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| | is when mold spores are released from
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| later my throat closed up completely,
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| | the damp earth. But one time the mold
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| cutting off my supply of air. I started
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| | and mildew spores almost killed me. A
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| for the stairs but fell as I entered the
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| | few years ago my breathing ability
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| second step. Thankfully, my mother
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| | started to decline. Over-the-counter
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| heard the bumping noise and came
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| | medication alleviated the symptoms
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| running. She breathed into my mouth and
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| | somewhat, but after a month of suffering,
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| pumped my chest until I could breathe
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| | I admitted that I needed professional
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| again. I later found out that the
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| | help. A short walk of only ten feet had
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| benefit of bat guano as fertilizer is
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| | me gasping for breath! A shocked
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| from its phosphate content.Just as
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| | allergist tried to admit me into the
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| serious was a bout of poison ivy. In the
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| | hospital but I wouldn't go. She finally
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| woods around our house grew poison ivy
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| | agreed to treat me at home and in her
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| vines with trunks as big as my arm and
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| | office on a strict regimen of steroids
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| extending thirty feet into the air.
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| | and rest. I required three weeks of
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| These mature plants produced small red
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| | treatments on a breathing machine before
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| berries in July. My brother and I used
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| | I could breathe normally. The cause
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| them as ammunition for our blow pipes,
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| | turned out to be a water problem in the
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| peppering the birds and cats and whatever
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| | cellar where I worked. Continual
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| else we could hit. The next day, my
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| | dampness under the carpeting grew a huge
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| brother turned a brilliant red and itched
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| | colony of mold and mildew. The owners
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| all over. I had the same symptoms, but
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| | ripped out the carpet but I didn't stay
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| because I was allergic to poison ivy, my
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| | long enough to see it done.Knowing the
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| body broke out in the well-known
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| | root of your allergy problems can go a
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| vesicles. Every inch of my body was
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| | long way toward living with them. If you
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| affected except my scalp and eyeballs.
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| | are an allergic person, don't put off
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| It took two months in bed sipping drinks
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| | having yourself tested for the exact
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| through a straw and staring at the
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| | cause. It could save your life.While
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| ceiling. At my weakest moment I
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| | photography was my main profession, I
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| contracted a case of pleurisy pneumonia.
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| | have dabbled
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| A new drug called penicillin saved
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| | in factory work, sales, house cleaning
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| my life. At the end of the two months,
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| | and writing.
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