Desensitisation

Nicole, as you may be aware, is an allergetic. Which is to say that she suffers from hayfever.

In order finally to deal with this problem, she has obtained a referal from her doctor to go and see a specialist.

Which she duly did. After the skin prick test it was ascertained that she is in fact allergic to everything on earth that it's possible to be allergic to.

Especially cats.

Dogs too, but especially cats. And pollen of course. Northern hemisphere pollen more than southern, as it happens. And mites. And dust. Probably air too, but they can't do a skin prick test for that.

The upshot is that a treatment is available which might or might not work which involved pyramid training her immune system with increasing subcutaneously injected doses of nasty things.

One Thursday three Thursdays ago I think, she began on her treatment. One injection in each arm, one of dog, one of pollen, in almost homeopathic doses at this stage.

Still up her arms swelled. If we were cruel we'd be thumping her on the arm. But we're nice.

So instead I made her walk around the Glass House Mountains.