Atlanta: Top Ten Allergy Capital
File this under: Tell me something my nose and sinuses don’t know. Atlanta is number ten on the Asthma and Allergy Foundation’s 2007 Allergy Capitals list. The Southeast is well-represented on the list. Well, duh.
File this under: Tell me something my nose and sinuses don’t know. Atlanta is number ten on the Asthma and Allergy Foundation’s 2007 Allergy Capitals list. The Southeast is well-represented on the list. Well, duh.
If we’re number ten I shudder to think what it must be like in Tulsa!
Seriously. I cannot remember the last time the pollen got to me this badly.
Charlotte is number 9, in your face ATL!
[shaking fist in air]
We’ll get you next year, Queen City!
I thought this was interesting:
If I had not started “desensitization,” aka allergy shots, a few years ago I think that I would be dead by now, or worse. Allergies also change with age, spiking in your early twenties, then subsiding for a while, then coming back with a vengeance in your thirties. It’s funny how people think of allergy sufferers as “sickly” when it’s not even technically a sickness; simply an imaginatively hyperactive immune system.
Stress, I took allergy shots as a kid (suckers! Twice a week!), then they waned until about a year ago. Now the seasonal ones are back with a vengeance. But at least I have an imaginative immune system.
Hey! Where did Jim V’s link go? I am eagerly awaiting the day when I can blame my aging on global warming.