{"id":174,"date":"2006-02-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/02\/big-sneeze-my-alliance-with-th.html"},"modified":"2006-02-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T12:00:00","slug":"big-sneeze-my-alliance-with-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/02\/big-sneeze-my-alliance-with-th.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Sneeze: My Alliance with the Allergic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Chattering and I once went to a lively party, and suddenly, as if guided by a force much larger ourselves, everyone there started talking about allergies. Cockroach dust. Mushrooms. Mold in the house.<\/p>\n

After a few minutes of this fascinating prattle, I turned to Mr. Chattering and gushed, “Oh, these are my people.” I felt so happy.<\/p>\n

Actually, I was only super-allergic to everything when pregnant. I was that one in one hundred women who comes down with full-blown asthma in pregnancy. Rattling like a tea kettle in my 12th week, Mr. Chattering made me go to a hospital emergency room where they plied me with all varieties of chemicals for one full midnight shift. Then I escaped.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got to put you on cortisone,” said my all-too-conventional allergist.<\/p>\n

“I won’t take it,” I said.<\/p>\n

“Your obstetrician and I believe that your not being able to breathe<\/em> is worse for the baby than being medicated for a time.”<\/p>\n

True, tough choice. This remark sent me on an alternative health odyssey that I won’t recommend to you here because I was still asthmatic enough in my eighth month to cough a rib out of place. But I was fixed that same day by a wonderful chiropractor we drove to visit in the midsts of a scary ice storm. Then, after our healthy baby boy was born, my allergies ebbed away (with the support of a homeopath, acupuncturist, and God’s love, I guess).<\/p>\n

Anyway, this experience left me with a real fondness for people sensitive to the fluffiest dust bunny! I know what it is like when the body turns on itself. I know what it is to fight for every breath.<\/p>\n

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