ONE BIG "PUFF"!!!

It was about this time of the year and our older daughter went out to play in the back yard. She wasn't out there very long and came back in. I looked at her and she was one big "puff" in her face. Since I recognized that something was wrong, and I didn't know what it was, off to the doctor we went.

When the doctor saw her she said, "She has an acute allergy". I think that she had an allergy to the Spirea that was in bloom that particular day. After that we had her tested for allergies of all sorts.

She hasn't gotten over this and she has to be extremely careful getting into poison ivy, poison oak. She was at her mother-in-law's place and nobody had gotten out to care for her lawn, so our daughter took on this job. BIG MISTAKE!!! She puffed up in her face and had blue welts over her entire body and had to stay home from work a week. She went back to work and would come home at lunchtime/evening and soak in the tub for relief from poison ivy. I saw her a week after it happened and she was really, really bad then. She said that I should have seen her the week prior. I don't know how she could have been in worse shape then when I saw her.

I hope she has learned her lesson and never, never take on this kind of work on again. I'm afraid it would be "curtains" for her if she did. I made her promise not to do that again. Also, I told her husband that, also. She is so willing, but sometimes one must put their foot down and say NO, when it effects your health so much.

Wisdom--Allergies run in families and some never seem to overcome it. Later I will tell you of another allergy problem with our other daughter.