ambulance | health | aging | allergies | ER visit
My Very First Ambulance Ride
also — hopefully my last
PREFACE
This is sort of Part 3 of: “What did you do this summer?” I’ve been slowly getting back to writing by telling everyone about my summer…maybe PARTS 1 AND 2 will get done by winter!
THE AMBULANCE RIDE
Well — it took til almost my mid-octogenarian age number to need an ambulance! And to have my first hospital visit [for my care] since my son was born over 46 years ago!
WHY?
The past
In brief, I have an allergy to crustaceans. Many moons ago, I always figured it was something else that I ate. For example, if I had a lobster roll in Maine, I would think it was another part of the meal, or if I had lobster at a cookout I figured it was something else that was not sitting well with me. The reactions back then were not too bad. I would generally get nauseous and throw up. I finally figured it was an allergy and thought that if I kept eating them, the allergy would dissipate — I would become immune by building a tolerance. Then a physician friend of mine told me to please stop eating them because all I was doing was adding to the toxin in my body and I would just get…
