Gobble Gobble

 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

 

xo Ash

3.5 Hour Doctor Visit

So i had my first appointment at the Adult Allergic Diseases & Asthma office yesterday. After discussing my allergies with the doctor for about an hour, I had a multitude of tests done.  The prick test consisted of me laying on my stomach for 40 minutes as they poked my back with different allergy proteins, and then waited to see my reactions.  I was so popular, 3 different nurses came in the room and their exact reactions were ‘wow, you really are allergic to a lot’, or ‘wow, that hive is getting huge’.  The test is graded as followed:Neg means that i was not allergic. 1+ is an equivocal reaction (doubtful significance), 2+ is a mild reaction (probably significant), 3+ is a moderate reaction (significant), and 4+ is a severe reaction (very significant).  Here are a few of my results:

• I would just like to let you know that i only tested neg for one thing and that was oris root. 
• My 2+ included ragweed, spring week, cockroach, mold, guineapig
• My 3+ is grass, dog, MILK, COCO BEAN
• My 4+ included 6 different types of trees, dust mites (which are basically everywhere), cats, horses, hamsters

I also have nasal polyps, which are small, sac-like growths made up of inflamed tissue lining my nose. cool.

So you may be wondering what the treatment plan is.  I was prescribed 5 different medicines to take daily. Zyrtec, Omnaris, Adviar, Albuterol, and 500 mg of Predisone(which i will only be on for 10 days when charlie and heide come for the holidays).  Predisone is a steroid, that causes mood changes and weight gain.  Therefor i will be crabby & fat on Christmas.  Just thought i would put that out there. An epi pen for my cold urticaria syndrome. Oh, and Allergy Injections once to twice a week for the next 5 years.

All in all, i am the bubble child.

this is what a poke test looks like

and no, this is not my back.

GRM

So, I’m pretty sure that no one actually reads this blog, but if they did and ventured into the comment section they might notice that a certain ‘G’ likes to post comments on a fairly regular basis.

This ‘G’ is an elusive fellow….

… only known by the often snarky comments that he posts on a regular basis.

 

Who is this mysterious ‘G’ might you ask? 

 

Well, for one thing, he can dance with the best of them….

 

Not quite a dance off, but still pretty good

He can hold his own on the golf course….

Four!

He can often be pretty as a princess…

Please excuse the blurriness, I could not stop laughing!

He likes to make funny faces….

He is our brother and we love him….

A-G-M

Here’s to you Greg

Cheers!

xo Ash

Goodbye October, Hello November!

Did I tell you that Charlie got hurt and needed stitches a few weeks ago? He gets them out tomorrow (hopefully), but until then he is all bandaged up

Charlie and his bandaged leg

 

Did you know that Halloween has come and gone and everyone (including me) is now thinking about Thanksgiving? Here is me on Halloween with my friend Amy’s son Jake. He was a skunk and it was the first time he had gone trick or treating! Dan is with his friend Joey’s son Logan, who was a very adorable dinosaur. We have friends who have kids… isn’t that weird!?

Can you tell that Jake has some candy in his hand?!

 

Lil' Stinker and Me

Dan and the Dinosaur

Also above you can see the brown color that I started to paint my dining room. We have now decided to go with green, so I will be painting away again next weekend.

 

Dan and I just got back from a weekend trip to Boulder, which is one of my favorite places! Dan’s friend Todd is on CU Boulder’s football operations staff and hooked us up with tickets to the game against Iowa State yesterday! We had a blast. It was fun tailgating and pretending we were college students again.

Here’s Todd leaving at the end of the game to go to the locker room. 

Go Buffs!

Here is Dan and I watching the 4th quarter. It was a close one but the Buffs pulled it off and won 28 – 24!

CU vs. Iowa State

 

All in all it has been a busy fun-filled few weeks. I hope your weekend is going well. Happy Sunday!

xo Ash

yes…i cry sometimes when i watch oprah

hippie

hiii! this is my roommates and I on the first night of halloween.  I am a hippie (clearly).  Calli is a strawberry.  Abby is a queen (adam, her boyfriend was a king). and JP was tila tequilla.   It was fun, defenitly not as exciting as all of your october festivities.  I woke up at 7:45 this morning to tailgate. we had people over at our apartment before we went to the bar. It was fun.  then i slept from 3-7.  that was also fun.

i dont know these people. i found them on facebook randomly, but i thought you would appreciate it.

 john and kate!

I ordered greg a couch. i’m excited for him. he moves in next saturday. 

i’m gunna go take my makeup off, because its still on from this morning.

 

peace and love

melis

Happy Halloween!

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Dog!

I had some IT issues yesterday, so this post is technically a day late but still relevant… Yesterday was a big day here in the Springs. My office had their annual contest again where we compete with skits. This year we created a David Letterman set and had Palin as a guest and had a funny top 10 list. It was a lot of work, so I am glad it is finally over! It is the first year that I have competed and not been on a winning team, but I’m okay with it.

We had a pretty good trick or treating turnout last night. We handed out peanut M&Ms and halloween themed pencils. I got a lot of flack up front for the pencil handouts, but they turned out to be a big hit!

I hope your Halloween was a good one. Fill me in later on how it all went.

 

xo Ash

Happy Halloween!