WABP - now with more medication

The trek family was supposed to go away on vacation this week. Note the operative phrase in that sentence: supposed to go. A Wednesday Afternoon Bullet Post seems the right way to talk about the supposed to go...

• Dr PreciousMetal and I have maintained good control over my allergies and asthma this year. Between judiciously applied pharmaceuticals and immunotherapy, I've not had many bad days at all. Oh, okay, there's been the occasional bad air-quality day coinciding with high pollen or animal dander contact but nothing requiring the use of a rescue inhaler.



• Until the chicken incident.



• Last Saturday, Number Guy and Neatnik went out to mow the lawn. I like mowing the lawn but I am highly allergic to grass and the pollen counts have been quite high locally.



• They came inside one by one afterwards and I sent them both straight to the showers. Still, I could smell the grass on them and my lungs began to complain with a deep cough follwed by a trailing wheeze. Despite the rescue inhaler, I was in some distress and put in a call to Dr PreciousMetal.



• I also called our vacation destination to cancel: we were supposed to visit a new horse ranch for five days.



• The pollen counts up in that area were reporting in 2 points higher than at home and I am also allergic to horses.



• The ranch was quite nice about the eleventh hour cancellation and Dr PreciousMetal called in a prescription to suppress the insanity of my hyperactive immune system.



• Methylprednisolone sucks, in case you were unaware of that little factoid.



• And I've needed the rescue inhaler every day since then.



• Sunday we were driven out of church by all of the incense - Corpus Christi - major feast day.



• Went to a later mass at a different parish but the pulmonary damage was done.



• Since we weren't going to be away from home, I cancelled my proctor and administered my own exams on Monday afternoon. My students were quite surprised and very sympathetic to my plight.



• Of course, I also sounded as raspy as an 80-year old, two-pack a day nicotine addict.



• I also brought them cookies.



• Since the last chapter of the textbook was about tracking cookies, online privacy, and security, there were a lot of bad jokes during the pre-test review.



• This is the first time I've brought a treat to a final but this class was very good. Fully half of them earned As and no one failed - a first.



• While I was proctoring and submitting final grades, Number Guy took Neatnik out to lunch.



• When I got home, I worked on the star patches. I think I did okay. Take a look-see:
  
  
  Twenty achievement stars
• Question of the day: can Neatnik grow faster than her need to pant leg length to accommodate her stars??



• Saw some interesting cloud formations the other day. One both Number Guy and I thought looked like a hippo in a tutu.



• Yesterday, grandma sent an early text message about a news article so Neatnik asked if she could visit for a while. This allowed Number Guy and I to catch a morning showing of X-Men: First Class.



• Not a kid-friendly movie!



• I loved it!



• Number Guy said he had a bit of trouble getting into it since he knew it was a bit of a tragedy but then, he has read the comics and I simply enjoy the stories the movies have presented.



• We both laughed at the scene when young Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr made contact with Logan.



• We knew we had seen the actor playing Professor X in something else but we couldn't put a name to his face. Later, Number Guy looked it up: he was Mr Tumnus!



• Cars 2 was playing this morning so we piled into the minivan early and zipped over. This was a fun family movie: Pixar goes Bond, amazing amount of realism in both the explosions and the architecture. A bit more enviromentalist than I would have liked but you can't have everything, I suppose.



• The Muppets are coming back to the big screen in November.



• Had a delicious cinnamon scone for breakfast. Picked it up a a tea shop after the movie.



• Can you really call a meal eaten at 3:15pm breakfast?



• Still trying to come up with good daytrip ideas for the remainder of the week.



• Miniature golf, museums, and whale watching have all been bandied about chez trek since Sunday. Suggestions?

As long as we are home, we're going to take our newly minted green belt to tae kwon do class so this is a good place to stop and wish everyone a happy Wednesday.