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I was tested for allergies today. It turns out that I'm not allergic to anything, which I found disappointing, since I was rather looking forward to an obscure antipathy to burdock or red maple. I'm not allergic to mold, either-- apparently it induces pain and coughing fits for purely physical reasons!-- but a Weak Chest is more poetic anyway, so I should count my blessings.

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i assumed my respiratory issues were allergy-related for years before getting tested. still don't really know what's wrong with me. hope things go better with you.

also, although i know what your icon is, every time i see it i can't help thinking the writing looks like an unnatural hybrid of Arabic and something more actively european (maybe Gothic?).

My thoughts too. But I like it! And even better that it's the same backwards.

Inhaled steroids fix mine, so the usual process of diagnosis-by-effective-remedy suggests that I suddenly acquired asthma in August.

This icon is more Gothic. I suppose to me the icon looks like a modern rendering of some sort of romanesque hand.

glad to hear you found something that worked.

i was actually thinking less ‘Gothic-style calligraphy’ and more ‘Gothic alphabet (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/gothic.htm)’, but it turns out i was wrong about that too.

Now I'm jealous of people who read Gothic.

My asthma seemed to come on quite suddenly as well, but in retrospect I can see that I had symptoms for much of my life -- just not quite as bad, so not over the threshold of "time to go see a doctor about this."

And I have almost allergic reactions to things I'm not technically allergic to -- but they sure trigger asthma. (Lavender is one of them.)

I have a history of embarrassing coughing fits, I suppose.

I'm sorry about the lavender. Mold is much easier to hate.

True, though I've always disliked the smell of lavender -- probably a subconscious awareness that I shouldn't be around it.

My asthma is "cough-variant" asthma, and usually manifests in coughing fits. So, yeah.

Yes, but you are not a poet. You are a mathemetician. You should try to get an autism-spectrum disorder.

Why is thinking about six dimensions a bad day job for a poet?

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