ThE InTrOdUcTiOn:
We recently took my brother in to get his allergies tested, for the second time in his twelve-year-old life.
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We recently took my brother in to get his allergies tested, for the second time in his twelve-year-old life.
Color codes:
Green=Titles/eras
Purple=basic text
Small blue=storytime
Red=important things
ThE HiStOrY:
My brother can be best described as the "demonboy" - a red-head terror, who is the pickiest eater on the face of this planet. And I'm not even being dramatic.
He was five when we first took him in to get his allergies tested, on account of the fact that he wouldn't eat peas. I'm not just saying he wouldn't eat them, I mean, he would cry, he would throw up. On one such occassion, he took two hours to eat them, crying and rubbing his eyes the entire time- By the end of this, his eyes were totally red and irritated, not from crying (as one might initially try to deduce it as) but from the pea residue in his eyes.
We took him to his allergy test. And perhaps you wouldn't think it was such a saga, but it was. So he's lying on his stomache with his shirt off, and the doctor has all the things they're testing for labeled on his back in medical marker. She has already placed droplets of various common allergens next to their specific markings.
And then she takes out the needle they're going to scratch the allergens with, so that they enter his skin. She pokes him once- ANDOHMYGOD,HISBACKISTOTHEWALLANDALLTHESAMPLESARERUNNINGDOWNHISBACKANDONTOTHEWALLANDHE'SSCREAMING.
If you didn't catch that it was, and I quote: "AND OH MY GOD, HIS BACK IS TO THE WALL AND ALL THE SAMPLES ARE RUNNING DOWN HIS BACK AND ON TO THE WALL AND HE'S SCREAMING.
Quickly, I'll skip to the results we eventually got from this allergy test.
ThE ReSuLtS:
He's allergic to peanuts, cats, dogs, feathers, animal dander, legumes, soy, various grasses, trees and other crap.
My brother can be best described as the "demonboy" - a red-head terror, who is the pickiest eater on the face of this planet. And I'm not even being dramatic.
He was five when we first took him in to get his allergies tested, on account of the fact that he wouldn't eat peas. I'm not just saying he wouldn't eat them, I mean, he would cry, he would throw up. On one such occassion, he took two hours to eat them, crying and rubbing his eyes the entire time- By the end of this, his eyes were totally red and irritated, not from crying (as one might initially try to deduce it as) but from the pea residue in his eyes.
We took him to his allergy test. And perhaps you wouldn't think it was such a saga, but it was. So he's lying on his stomache with his shirt off, and the doctor has all the things they're testing for labeled on his back in medical marker. She has already placed droplets of various common allergens next to their specific markings.
And then she takes out the needle they're going to scratch the allergens with, so that they enter his skin. She pokes him once- ANDOHMYGOD,HISBACKISTOTHEWALLANDALLTHESAMPLESARERUNNINGDOWNHISBACKANDONTOTHEWALLANDHE'SSCREAMING.
If you didn't catch that it was, and I quote: "AND OH MY GOD, HIS BACK IS TO THE WALL AND ALL THE SAMPLES ARE RUNNING DOWN HIS BACK AND ON TO THE WALL AND HE'S SCREAMING.
Quickly, I'll skip to the results we eventually got from this allergy test.
ThE ReSuLtS:
He's allergic to peanuts, cats, dogs, feathers, animal dander, legumes, soy, various grasses, trees and other crap.
BrInGiNg YoU BaCk Up To DaTe:
I don't recall why exactly, but we decided to get his allergies tested a second time. And now we learn that he's:
[1] a psycho
[2] we've been trying to kill him.
Now we know that he's still allergic to peanuts and soy, but ALSO:
He has a wheat allergy.
He has an egg-white allergy.
He's allergic to walnuts.
He's allergic to corn.
And he's mildly allergic to shrimp.
