Posted on 02/08/2011 11:13:51 AM PST by Immerito
Even eating ice cream is off-limits for 9-year-old Priscilla
Nine-year-old Priscilla Pomerantz can't play in the snow, eat ice cream or walk her dog during the winter. She can't get cold at all, because she suffers from an allergy called cold urticaria. For Priscilla, air temperatures below 70 degrees -- or even eating chilly foods -- trigger an allergic reaction of hives, swelling and difficulty breathing. Left untreated, the cold could literally kill her.
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Don’t you think you should ping the freeper you mentioned in your post.
A Gulf War Veteran former Platoon SGT of mine used to swell up during the cold. It wasn’t life threatening, but he had problems breathing and moving his joints. It’s weird, but it’s real.
Those are thermometers. Tools to measure heat. Hence the prefix thermo.
One cannot observe water changing to ice?
One can observe water changing into ice--the movement of heat away from the water causes that.
Other way around. You cannot produce dark--you can, though, produce light.
You and me both. Had this when I was a kid, and it was pretty bad. Gradually grew out of it, thank goodness; however, no doubt in my mind that it’s a real - and serious - affliction.
Okay:
Celsius, and -22 degrees.
Those ROK marines are tough as nails, even our Marines grudgingly admitted they were tough.
“This sounds like another made-up “disease” like ADHD and ADD.”
Both are real conditions. I had a severe case when I was a child. The nuns beat me until I was able to cotrol the symptoms. Now they use medicine.
Personally I think a lot of that is just boys being boys, and the mostly female teachers being unable to deal with that because little boys don’t learn just by sitting there. So they slap one of these alphabet-soup ‘disorders’ on young boys and fill them full of ritalin.
Read “The War Against Boys” by Christina Summers.
I’m nearly 50 years old and still can’t sit still. I drive my wife crazy, watching two TV show, and surfing on the internet at the same time. If I have a meeting that will last for more than an hour, I have my assistant page me so I have an excuse to get up and move around.
God bless him, my youngest son is just like me. Smart as a whip but drives the teachers crazy. He would definately learn more if he was able to sit and do one thing at a time and it will be a problem he will have to adapt to when he finds a carreer but it is who he is and I don’t see a need to change him with meds.
Some of us just aren’t wired to sit and do one thing at a time.
Amazingly enough, there are people who are allergic to water. They have to avoid sweating, the rain and take histamines before bathing. I wouldn’t have believed it except a friend had the problem for a long time.
My nephew has this. He got outside once when he was 3 to play in the snow and was completely unconsious by the time his parents got him to the hospital.
For Fahrenheit, use Rankine.
For Celsius, use Kelvin.
YMMV
Both are real conditions. I had a severe case when I was a child. The nuns beat me until I was able to cotrol the symptoms. Now they use medicine.
In other words, once you were capable of SELF-discipline, you were no longer a pain in the butt.
No, I couldn’t control all the symptoms, I spent most of my early years in the slow class, special ed if I were in school now. I could never keep track of what the teacher was saying more than a few words at a time. What I learned was that the pain of sitting still was less than the pain of distracting the teacher. I moved around inside my head rather than physically moving around. I created stories, learned to count in other number systems before I knew what they were and otherwise occupied myself. Even as an adult, if I am not careful, I can easily lose myself in numbers rather than taking care of what needs to be done around me. I suppose they turned ADHD into ADD if that is what you want to call a cure.
I remember my first IQ test when I was about 9, we had moved and I was enrolled in a public school. They knew I had learning problems and they set me up with the district psychologist to see where they needed to place me. She asked me to start at 1 and double it and keep going as long as I could, I rattled off numbers, she stopped me somewhere in the millions with a funny look on her face. She asked me some word games and had me solve some problems for her. She stopped after about 10 minutes. She was shocked, the thing she did not know was that I did those games in my head for hours a day to keep from acting out in class.
They put me in a self directed learning class, gave me books and teachers that would explain things when I asked and direct me in my learning. Say what you will about public schools but they did me a great service. By the time I was in junior high, they had me functioning at a college level. We moved and I spent a couple of years in a regular high school, I couldn’t stay out of trouble there and upon administration request, moved onto college when I was 16.
I still can’t control the symptoms, but I have found a job that requires someone with ADD to survive and I have a very understanding wife.
Beating me down when I was a kid made me look like I was functioning better but they weren’t teaching me anything other that to turn inward other than outward. If I had gone 12 years that way, I would have graduated high school as a barely functional adult.
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