OSF Semmies - when I was seventeen I took part in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Summer Seminar for High School Juniors. We refered to ourselves as "semmies" for those glorious weeks. One of the hopes I had starting with livejournal was that I would cross paths with some of the 1987 semmies again.
Samter's Triad is the clinical name for what the hell is wrong with me. It's asthma, nasal polyps and an aspirin allergy. One of the reasons I could never get my asthma under control was because it was not "just" allergy or exercise triggered. There are a lot of foods which are just similar enough to aspirin to trigger a reaction (asthma, red face etc.) and it wasn't until I started minding my diet and limiting those foods that I started getting better.
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Date: 2005-08-31 05:48 pm (UTC)Samter's Triad is the clinical name for what the hell is wrong with me. It's asthma, nasal polyps and an aspirin allergy. One of the reasons I could never get my asthma under control was because it was not "just" allergy or exercise triggered. There are a lot of foods which are just similar enough to aspirin to trigger a reaction (asthma, red face etc.) and it wasn't until I started minding my diet and limiting those foods that I started getting better.