Unknown Allergy

I like understanding everything around me and obviously that is not going to happen.  So then, I switch into observation mode and ponder until I do.  Some things I may well never understand but I do the motives of man and so those are less of a mystery as I can write them off as to the corruption of man.

I dined at IKEA the other night, first time in years I think, and I had the usual: smoked salmon, as well as, smoked salmon with root vegetable salad.  Add some additional hard tack crackers, two bowl of awesome split pea soup, all washed down with lingonberry juice and we have a great meal.  Sigh ... :)

Then slowly toured the store.  Stopped to buy some cinnamon rolls but the guy ahead of me bought the last ones (grrrrrrrrrrrr!).  So, off to the movies across the street to see the latest from the Night In The Museum series. 

I did not expect much from the movie, I do like Ben Stiller, especially after The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, so hoped it would be good.  It was great!

Set all of the clocks back, then off to an early bedtime.  Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick .....

12:30 am and I am VIOLENT ill, again.

And I thought on this randomly happening to me this year, about once every two weeks, sometimes twice a week.

I ate nothing I was allergic to.  Have sniffed no laser toner fumes lately.  Nothing new, again.  And for 1.5 hours as I sat in the bathroom, another half hour sitting in my office chair sipping Powerade ... I thought and analyzed everything.

I had a cough drop after breakfast, something had set off my throat.
I analyzed probable ingredients to everything I ate.  Could there have been chilies in the soup?
I had popcorn during the movie.  Corn a problem again?  Its hasn't been for 20 years.
Was it nerves?  Gaelic Girl and I had crossed swords earlier.

But other times this year:
One was a write off due to my allergy to SPLENDA - yes, it is broken down by the body.
One was due to a surprise jalapeno, unexpected and then mourned. :(

And that leaves a whole lot of unknowns.

Obviously, the answer is to go an allergist ... seems the one I had in the 1980s has now retired, was not replaced by anyone and that is the end of allergist within quite a driving distance!  Well, I did find one, as long as I have a car that day, but they can not see me for testing until June ... and well, yeah, I expect to be in traction by then.  Sigh.

I hate allergies.  They seem to come and go, for no reason and can not be predicted at all.  As my allergist had said in 1980, "Kris, you are so lucky!  You can have all of the beer and shrimp you could ever want!"

Well, I had to watch the shrimp because of the fat content and as for beer, well all alcohol is out of my if I want to take my heart medicine at night.  And so yeah, I will eat a few shrimp this year - never more than just a few in any given month.  As for beer, I am more of stout man, but that is at most two or three times a year.

But, I think if I want to die it will be by jalapeno poppers and rum ...
Just kidding!  :)