Re: Buses and Bugs

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I can't take the bus either and I can actually smell cockroaches! We didn't buy

a sofa that we really liked, because I could smell roaches in the shop. Yuck!

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> I have been three years on xolair this last February. What a difference. I

still have to avoid situations where I will manufacture IgE - like I can't sit

next to someone who has recently been in the house of someone who owns a CAT a

bird a horse, a dog or has cockroaches. ha ha ha. (I don't think I know anyone

who has cockroaches) I also carry my epi pen at all times. I can't travel on

public transportation but last August I decided it might be OK for me to take a

trip to Cathedral in the Pines in NH because our group was going in a limo - big

mistake - there were 10 of us and I was sitting next to a cat owner and one of

the ladies raised horses. I had an asthma attack the entire trip - and when I

got back - I still had to drive home and could not go on the highway - had to

take back roads. With in three days I was back on an antibiotic and prednisone

for a couple of months. I probably un-did most of a years worth of therapy. We

just have to be

> careful and adjust to the fact that we must adjust our lives to accommodate

the disease. I wonder how many people nation wide are taking this drug. I am

in the VA health care system and I have been told that within this system there

are less than 200 total.

> Anne

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