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[RedKing]

Made the decision last night to go totally dairy-free. No milk, no cheese, no sour cream, no butter, no nothing. This is incredibly difficult and ironic, as I grew up surrounded by dairy farms, my grandfather worked for a dairy, and I absolutely love dairy products.

But one, I'm lactose-intolerant and although I've been trying to get along with popping a bunch of lactose pills when I eat dairy, it's just not working. And two, my son appears to be much more seriously allergic to milk. Not like anaphylactic shock allergic, but it seems to cause massive overproduction of mucus. I gave him a small dish of mac'n'cheese on Thursday and by Friday morning he sounded like Darth Vader with a chest cold. And it's not the first time it's happened. We had already cut out liquid milk from his diet, but I was testing to see how he was with milk byproducts.

The thing is....as someone for whom cheese is a delicious gastrointestinal landmine, it's a f**king nightmare to avoid cheese if you eat out or buy processed food in America. It's in EVERYTHING. There's an actual dairy lobbying firm (funded in part by the US government) that works with restaurants to find new ways to put more cheese in our food. They're the people behind the idea of "hey, a pizza with triple cheese isn't good enough. How about we put cheese inside the crust too?" NY Times did a good piece on this last year.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Have you asked his pediatrician about the potential of immunotherapy? He's still young, so if the potential of acclimating the allergy is there I would say to take it now rather than later. Even without things like that lobby group having to avoid cheese your whole life would be very annoying.

[Ochita]

Urg..

Why are there so many bad LP'ers...?

[Burnt Pies]

There's a smell of Onions in the room, and I don't know where it's coming from!

[RedKing]

Have you asked his pediatrician about the potential of immunotherapy? He's still young, so if the potential of acclimating the allergy is there I would say to take it now rather than later. Even without things like that lobby group having to avoid cheese your whole life would be very annoying.

We're taking him to an actual allergist later this summer, along with his sister who has some degree of shellfish allergy, although when she was tested last year the results were inconclusive. They think she essentially was born shellfish-intolerant but might be growing out of it. It'd be really, really nice if he grows out of the milk problems but in the meantime I just can't watch him go through what he's been through the last few days. It's like just an ounce or so of milk or cheese or yogurt = horrible sinus cold (minus the actual infection) within hours. And it takes him days to get over it.

[Darvi]

Why are there so many bad LP'ers...?

For the same reason there's so many, for instance, fanfics.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I don't see why you're complaining about bad LP'ers. They don't force you to watch, nor do they profit in any way from what they do.
They're simply attempting to take what they enjoy doing and make it entertaining for other people as well.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It'd be really, really nice if he grows out of the milk problems but in the meantime I just can't watch him go through what he's been through the last few days. It's like just an ounce or so of milk or cheese or yogurt = horrible sinus cold (minus the actual infection) within hours. And it takes him days to get over it.

I'm not all that well versed on immunotherapy for allergens, but I don't think it is generally supposed to involve triggering the reaction. Just the opposite in fact, if my memory is correct the objective is to introduce these things in progressively larger doses without tripping the reaction at all, until the allergy no longer exists in any practical form.

[RedKing]

It'd be really, really nice if he grows out of the milk problems but in the meantime I just can't watch him go through what he's been through the last few days. It's like just an ounce or so of milk or cheese or yogurt = horrible sinus cold (minus the actual infection) within hours. And it takes him days to get over it.

I'm not all that well versed on immunotherapy for allergens, but I don't think it is generally supposed to involve triggering the reaction. Just the opposite in fact, if my memory is correct the objective is to introduce these things in progressively larger doses without tripping the reaction at all, until the allergy no longer exists in any practical form.

Which is why we're seeing an allergist. I don't have micrograms of casein lying around.

[Vector]

Fnurgle.

Dear Roommate,

We recently decided that the middle shelf of the fridge would remain mine, the top shelf was yours, and we would share the bottom with a third roommate--as well as putting the occasional pot of food down there or something like that.

You completely filled the top shelf, most of the bottom shelf, and are now putting your food on my shelf.

What the FUCK.

Do I put my overflowing piles of books in your room?  No, I do fucking not, thank you.  How does this even make sense?  I can fit your irritating jar of jam and container of whatever-that-was on your shelf.  The fact that my shelf is largely empty, and also clean, is a happy side effect of the fact that I don't buy more than I can eat or store in the fridge.

Jegus.

[Nadaka]

You miss-spelled Jreengus. And it occurs, in 1048.

I came here to say I completely lack the ability to focus and do anything I want or need to do.

But I got sidetracked to make a stupid joke.

[ChairmanPoo]

It takes time for desensitivization to achieve its aims. IRRC it's at least 3 years of weekly innoculations. I'm allergic to dust mites myself, but decided to postpone this until I'm in my residency, as then I'll have plenty of time to do so

[Heron TSG]

I went to the Brown+ M.I.T.+Yale conference yesterday, and while I learned some great stuff about going to those colleges, such as the fact that my low income bracket would grant me a full ride to any of them, there were some batshit crazy people there. During the MIT guy's Q&A segment, I noticed a parent urging their daughters (who couldn't have been much older than 10) to write down everything he was saying. Every time the Brown guy said anything about their medical school, half of the adults in the room stared pointedly at their children. Some guy asked the Yale representative if he thought the kid should retake his 2300-scoring SAT because he only got a 700 on the reading part... in a panicked voice.

So many snooty people. All I went for is to see if I could even afford to go there and whether or not my current AA degree would transfer credits. I got answers, but I also got a glimpse of the craziest Tiger Moms/Dads on the planet.

[DeKaFu]

I wanted to show off a creepy song but couldn't find it online, so decided to upload it to Youtube. Cue wasting an hour struggling to get into my Youtube account which I made 4 years ago and used once. None of my passwords worked, and none of the recovery emails were making it through so I had to go on some wild and elaborate treasure hunt to figure out how to add the Youtube email address to my safe list. Then it wouldn't let me use it until I linked it to a Google account I'm pretty sure I never created but apparently exists, so the password's a mystery again now.

Sad thread because I don't think anyone actually looked at the video.

[RedKing]

I went to the Brown+ M.I.T.+Yale conference yesterday, and while I learned some great stuff about going to those colleges, such as the fact that my low income bracket would grant me a full ride to any of them, there were some batshit crazy people there. During the MIT guy's Q&A segment, I noticed a parent urging their daughters (who couldn't have been much older than 10) to write down everything he was saying. Every time the Brown guy said anything about their medical school, half of the adults in the room stared pointedly at their children. Some guy asked the Yale representative if he thought the kid should retake his 2300-scoring SAT because he only got a 700 on the reading part... in a panicked voice.

So many snooty people. All I went for is to see if I could even afford to go there and whether or not my current AA degree would transfer credits. I got answers, but I also got a glimpse of the craziest Tiger Moms/Dads on the planet.

Yeah, I remember when I started the application for Harvard. Got about halfway through when I realized that they wanted to know as much or more about my family as they did me. When I realized that that meant putting down that I was raised by a couple who had a 6th grade education and were just above the poverty line, I crumpled up the application and threw it away. Looking back, I probably had a good chance of getting in as a "diversity" candidate. "Hey, look it's a rural Southern white kid with great SAT scores. He can be our token redneck."