My Wife is Trying to Kill Me with Pesticides
I can't stand the smell of laundry spray. I can't be in the house if our broiler has been used. My eyes burn and water and my throat gets very scratchy. I seem to have trouble with pesticides including household, dog collars and powders and drops. A friend of mine had a golden retriever that every time I used to pet him my hands would get a strange feeling of being a little numb and swollen. We hold off using the drops on our dog until it's very necessary, and then I avoid handling the dog for a week or two, especially in the application areas. I have felt poorly for a few weeks around the applications, but of course we're not positive this is why I feel bad... So what did SHE do THIS time? Well, we decided it was "about that time" since ticks are getting very bad. I asked her to wait until some morning before his walk so that it would wear off a little bit before he was back in the house. A couple of days later (today), I go into her bedroom and I see the dog shake his head in a certain way, so I guess he's got a tick on his ear. I check his ear and find one, then check him all over especially around his head and neck and find 2 more. As I'm finishing about ten minutes of handling the dog, she says: "You should wash your hands, I put the drops on the dog yesterday morning." WHAAAATT???? "You didn't bother to tell me before this?" "I forgot." I haven't been this upset in a loooong time. She has no clue. About anything. So I'm posting this in public in case I die of poisoning in the next couple of weeks. The whole world will know. And IF you don't hear from me anymore, please tell the insurance company to at least investigate before paying the SOB off. |
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| I might add that I've been suffering with this throat thing, and then with a bad case of gout and yesterday I didn't feel particularly well either, and yet I had to go to the hospital for my dad and sit around the ER for 5 hours while they diagnosed his indigestion. Now I have the gout thing and a headache and a bit of a sore throat from cussing about this... Did I mention I was pissed off? Someone tell me a good joke, quick. |
| ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ron, you're normally not this paranoid and emotional. Is it possible you've entered men-o-pause? Just say'n...  I was gonna ask you if you'd just recently changed your will, but if it's the insurance money she's after, we'll take your word for it.  I have some chemical sensitivites, nothing that extreme, but I can't walk through the cosmetics section of a department store and not get a blinding headache/urge to lose my lunch. That's starting to extend to the laundry detergent etc aisle at the grocery store, and, yes, it makes me feel like crap, so you do have my sympathies. There are some "natural" anti-tick recipees floating around, though nothing to say the oils they use in these might not make you ill as well, but if you're interested I'll dig them up. Not sure they would be enough of a deterrent for ticks in a high risk area like yours, but might be worth trying. As for the joke, not sure if you'll find this as funny as some, but here goes: (This came from a discussion re grooming with some long time OES breeders/exhibitors) Unnamed breeder #1, after noting that she'd taking a garbage pail of hair off her special and still no end in sight, literally - she insisted you couldn't tell one end from the other, and the dog was supposed to be used for a judge's education seminar. Unspecificed smartass breeder #2: Hint: the head has TWO eyes, if you only see one hole, you're working on the wrong end! Me (clueless person, not permitted to own scissors, which is how the discussion started): couldn't she just hedge her bets and put top-knots on both ends?  Well, it's all I've got on short notice. Sorry. Kristine  |
| Oh, the detergent aisle! OMG that kills me... AND I can just barely walk by the freaking candle shop at the mall... Good joke! Also could find which end exhales most frequently and top knot the other. |
Ron wrote: Also could find which end exhales most frequently and top knot the other.  I'll pass that along if you don't mind. Yeah, candle stores, toxic waste dump. I admit I'm starting to take it personally. What's wrong with a NATURAL (as in, it is what it is, not a chemical attempt to imitate same) scent? Of course, my sheepdogs emit lots of natural scents. Most of them unpleasant, now that I think about it.  But none of them make me feel like my head is going to explode, so I don't think I'll be hanging those obnoxious car air-fresheners off any of their top knots any time soon.Kristine |
| I worked with a guy back in the mid 90s who apparently smelled very bad. I say apparently because while I did notice that he wasn't as fresh as a daisy, it wasn't so bad that I couldn't hold a conversation with the man. To me it was approximately the same as talking with someone who had bad breath. However it was apparently so objectionable to nearly everyone else that after he would walk by they would make gagging motions and wave their hands in front of their noses, and grimacing. Clearly it was much worse to them than it was to me. My office mate who was his manager had to have multiple discussions with him on the issue. After one of these sessions, the employee started to use some sort of antiperspirant/deodorant/perfume. When he would come into our office I literally gagged. I couldn't breathe. Half of the whole office near his cubicle was now uninhabitable for me. The other employees? They were thrilled with the outcome. They said at least he they could be near him now. I still don't understand how it is that my nose is so backwards to the rest of the world. And I don't understand why my spouse of 25 years just doesn't get it. |
Sorry, no jokes here but tons of sympathy on the chemical sensitivity  A young tourist at my weekly fair last week insisted on hugging me while her boyfriend took our (and more importantly BERT"S  ) picture...her perfume almost put me out of commission for the rest of the day. Candles!  WTH is the deal with those? Has everyone lost their sense of smell? The laundry aisle of the grocery is impassable for me, as is the cosmetics section in clothing stores. Heaven help me if I end up next to a soap maker at an art fair  .Has everything gotten stronger over the years, or is it just because our sensitivities have grown worse? Thank god we dont have ticks or fleas here...but I have that same sort of reaction you described (numb, tingles, swelling in hands) to the meds for the ear (yeast) infections that Bert is prone to. Scott has to be the one to apply it, and I have to be careful about handling Bert's ears. Feel better Ron...what a cruddy week you've had!  |
There should be a warning label on these things that mentions the side effect causing some to be G R O U C H Y!  Deep breaths. Well, not near the dog. Or on the laundry aisle. |
| Wow, Ron, you are getting dumped on with illness. My dad had gout, so I know the pain that one is. I don't suffer from all the "pretty smells", thank goodness. Oddly, my downfall is plain old baby powder.... the stuff just makes me sneeze and sneeze....even the slightest whiff. |
| I don't know, Laurel... I've wondered the same. I'm not sure that grouchy begins to describe my mood. |
Ron wrote: I don't know, Laurel... I've wondered the same. I'm not sure that grouchy begins to describe my mood. I have really noticed over the past few years that "air fresheners" have gotten much more popular...and STRONGER Those plug in oil things are particularly awful, and they are used commonly in women's restrooms (I dont know about men's ). I kind of think these things are causing people's sense of smell to be numbed. I carry my own liquid soap because I also cant trust the stuff used in public restrooms not to make me ill.Its also (for me) definitely an issue with some element of artificial fragrance. "All natural" and "essential oil" soaps and incense don't bother me at all. So, I sort of think some change in the "scent" industry is to blame. |
Ron wrote: I don't know, Laurel... I've wondered the same. I'm not sure that grouchy begins to describe my mood. How much investigation into multiple chemical sensitivity have you done? http://www.mcsrr.org/ http://www.mcsrr.org/links.html and http://www.breathing.com/articles/mcs-muses.htm |
ravenmoonart wrote: I have really noticed over the past few years that "air fresheners" have gotten much more popular...and STRONGER Those plug in oil things are particularly awful, and they are used commonly in women's restrooms (I dont know about men's ). I kind of think these things are causing people's sense of smell to be numbed. Bingo. That's one way of "deodorizing" - using chemicals that block people's sense of smell. Some of the chemicals used in fragrances are quite toxic. And one of the recurring side effects across many of these chemicals is depression. No mention of wives of 25 years suddenly becoming apparently entirely unsympathetic to one's plight. Then again, depression tends to skew one's sense of these things. OR Ron has a REALLY good life insurance policy and Joan has indeed made other plans Kristine |
| I met Joan last fall at Nationals in NY....she seemed so NICE.... |
I have multiple sensitivities to any chemical, scents etc too. I feel absolutely horrible when I've been exposed to anything that sets it off, but antihistamine always helps, even if it's not a typical allergic reaction. Take one that causes drowsiness, if nothing else you may get a nap out of it Oscar.    |
| I really, really, really dislike the trend to perfume everything. A couple of co-workers love, love, love candles and anything scented. Fortunately, they don't actually wear much of anything perfumed to work, possibly in part because a different co-worker is very vocal about how much she detests perfumes and how they give her a headache. I am not fond of her (and like the other two candle gals) but I think she has a point. I've never liked that stuff. Re: incense, perfumes and chemicals and depression. Waaaaaaaaaay back in the 70's when it seemed like every other store was filled with incense, I used to hate going into those stores and avoided them whenever I could. The best way I can describe how they made me feel was: depressed. Actually, allergies in general make me feel somewhat muddle headed like depression, aside from the sneezing my head off. I use only scent/dye free laundry detergent and avoid anything and everything with perfumes in it. I think it's not healthy for us or for the environment. |
| Ron you have my sympathy. I also have sensitivity to two products that send me wheezing, gasping...urg..AX and oven cleaner. Did I mention my oven is really yucky? I can live with it however, and as the years go by I find I have slight sensitivity to differnet products. My biggest fear would be to develop allergies to animal fur. I have a sign on my door that we got rid of the kids as the dog was allergic. Hope you feel better soon. Marianne |
| I'm way behind but I'm the same, I cannot walk through the cosmetics department without getting a migraine and I get a headache from some restaurant rest rooms. I've had to leave some theatre performances at interval and go home to bed due to migraine from someone sitting near me wearing a ton of perfume. I HATE the detergent isle at the supermarket and hurry by the candle shop at the mall and wouldn't dream of entering the store. Also I will confess here that I have regifted many oil burners, scented candles and other odiferous gifts. |
| Kind of off topic, but this post got me thinking about it... I love candles, and used to have them in my home all the time. Both as a decorative thing, for atmosphere when burning, and of course the ever-so-frequent Alaskan power-outages .The whole "lets scent candles to the point of high toxicity" thing has made this difficult. Its getting harder and harder to find unscented ones. My favorites over the last few years have been the pure beeswax candles that a crafts person up here was selling at the fairs (their booth was amazing, all you could smell was honey! )...but they have now vanished .Soooo what with our new beekeeping hobby, I'm thinking of trying my hand at making my own. Has anybody here ever done it? Sheepieboss???? |
| Oh, I LOVE them too. One of the guys I work with raises bees...if you figure out how to make them and it isn't too complicated, please share. Kristine |
| Not beeswax, but I used to make candles when I was a wee one. Looking at candlewic.com in 50 pound packs, beeswax goes for about $4.00 per pound and paraffin at about $1.40-$1.60 per pound. Wow. |
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