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Hi there! I cannot afford to get sick, since someone has to do my work, and if it's somebody else, he or she gets paid for it and I don't. :-/ I live with 7 cats and am thankful they never caused me any grief; they provide us too much happiness, and I think they'd stay no matter what inconvenience they could possibly ever cause!

My hayfever started when I moved to FL - all sorts of new and previously unencountered bits of strange flora in the air, and at all times of the year. It was getting worse by the year, culminating in a season during which I had to attempt to sleep in a chair at night, because I couldn't breathe in any position lying down. Weirdly enough, they disappeared completely the following year. At the time, I attributed this to an unusual catalyst - a magnetic mattress pad a friend persuaded me to try sleeping on - but it was likely a syncronicity of events aided by my ever-more-healthy dietary habits, as well as my refusal to ever take another drug to treat the symptoms (they only worked marginally for me, and the side effects were awful). Anyway, that was in 1996, but, coincidentally or not, I haven't had either the flu or a full-blown cold (or any illness) since then, either.

Be well!

I'm in the same boat WRT work - If I call off sick, somebody else has to be called in. Since I surely don't want to be called in on my day off, I use sick time sparingly. As for the cats, I used to have one myself and much as I liked my little buddy, I had to give him away. I had to run the furnace blower through an electrostatic filter 24/7 and run a separate filter in the bedroom to tolerate him.

My hayfever started when I moved to FL - all sorts of new and previously unencountered bits of strange flora in the air, and at all times of the year. It was getting worse by the year, culminating in a season during which I had to attempt to sleep in a chair at night, because I couldn't breathe in any position lying down. Weirdly enough, they disappeared completely the following year. At the time, I attributed this to an unusual catalyst - a magnetic mattress pad a friend persuaded me to try sleeping on - but it was likely a syncronicity of events aided by my ever-more-healthy dietary habits, as well as my refusal to ever take another drug to treat the symptoms (they only worked marginally for me, and the side effects were awful). Anyway, that was in 1996, but, coincidentally or not, I haven't had either the flu or a full-blown cold (or any illness) since then, either.

I basically outgrew my hay fever - no other explanation for it. It just gradually went away as I grew older. I will, however, take a Benedryl if I go visit my friends with their cat - otherwise, its sneeze-city. :^)

Be well!

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