Well, after over a month of anticipation hoping that the house deal would go through, my wife and I are proud owners of our very first home! We absolutely love it, and we could not be more happy with it.
We closed on the house on October 2nd, and began moving that day. I was without internet connection for a few days, so I couldn’t blog on cholinergic urticaria. Plus we were super busy moving all of the boxes, cleaning, unpacking, etc. As you can imagine, it has been very crazy. Moving is a chore, and that is for sure.
The house itself is awesome. It has 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. It is a ranch style with an upstairs and a complete downstairs with a garage. It has so much room compared to our old 1 bedroom apartment (we felt like canned sardines). It also has a very big back yard (the lot is almost an acre).
Also, it does not have any carpet at all (it is all engineered hardwood, hardwood laminate, and laminate flooring). So if dust mites were ever an issue, that should take care of that.
This has been a dream of mine for years, and my wife and I feel so very blessed to have finally realized our dream of owning our own home. It is truly amazing. It was just really odd because we made an offer, and I found out the day before my birthday that they accepted the offer, and the closing date was on my mother’s birthday. Funny how things workout sometimes.
How My Cholinergic Urticaria Has Been Treating Me
The hives are still here (of course). They have been bothering me some, but luckily I have had periods of relief. For instance, it was nice and cool during the closing (which only lasted about 45 minutes), so that was great.
However, during the move I did have some nasty hives attacks. The couch in particular was very heavy and hard to move, and I did get an attack while straining with that. So moving proved to aggravate my hives quite a bit.
In addition, cleaning yesterday brought on another attack. It got rather muggy inside, and before I knew it I was dealing with the itchy prickly feeling, which always seems to frustrate me and put me in an aggravated mood.
Update on the Hard Water Experimentation
After bathing with soft water for several weeks, I have decided to abandon the experiment, and cancel the whole soft water idea as a means to stop the hives. I have bathed using softened water (distilled) for so long, and it did nothing to help my attacks.
I still had plenty of attacks while moving, etc. Luckily, the water here does not seem to be as bad as it was in the apartment, so I am relieved at that. But at this point, I think I can safely say that the water wasn’t the cause of the hives. Therefore, I will start to take regular showers now that I am away from the old water.
I am a bit bummed though, as the soft water idea did give me a shred of hope. With cholinergic urticaria, hope is the best thing besides a cure (for me anyway).
At this point I feel as if I have nearly exhausted every potential environmental or allergy issue. I really don’t have any other ideas or experiments to help the cholinergic urticaria, other than to just deal with it.
I hope and pray that I won’t have to deal with this for the rest of my life. It is truly annoying and frustrating. It has affected my career, my personal life, my habits, etc. But I continue to push forward daily, having some good days, some not so good days. All in all, I feel blessed and thankful for what I do have…hives or no hives.
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This post was written by Ben on October 10, 2009
