Smoke Gets In My Eyes....and lungs

October 22, 2007

Is anyone else is Southern California? The many fires, smoke and wind

are so bad. My eyes and throat are burning and when I went out briefly

to get a hepa mask to wear when I go to work tomorrow I started

coughing in wheezing. I had stayed in all day and my husband came home

with a Whirlpool 510 Whispure air purifier he bought at work.(this was

one that was on a list from a report my allergist gave me and we had

been planning on buying for awhile) The smoke is even coming thru one

of our closed windows at home. I called our apartment manager I told

them I have severe asthma and ask them to check our window and tape it

up until it could be repaired properly and she said oh they have a lot

of real emergencies and people have property damage from the wind and

maybe I could wait until tomorrow or go out and repair myself. I told

her " Well my breathing is a real emergency and I am supposed to stay

inside. " She said she would get someone but, nobody ever came so my

husband duct taped it. The way that woman talked to me made me so upset.

I hope I do okay at work tomorrow. I Live in the Conejo Valley and the

smoke just loves to settle here. The last time we had fires like

this my doctor said " she almost called me that weekend to tell me to

drive down to Orange County and stay with my parents. " Well this time

they are even having fires down there so that is not an option.

This is one irritant that the Xolair doesn't change. However, since I

have been on Xolair over 6 months I am in a lot better shape so maybe

it won't be as bad as the last fires we had.

We have some awesome firefighters out here protecting lives and

property I am praying they stay safe. They are stretched pretty thinly

with all these multiple fires cropping up.

Oh no there have been quite a few sirens hope there is not another

fire. The two closest had been about 4 and 20 miles away.

gonna get some sleep. Thanks for listening.

Laurie

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