Draggin' the Bracelet (Not the Line!)

 

Can you guess what this is? Well, besides my chonky thick as heck wrist? It's a positively out of the blue mast cell reaction to a bracelet I've been wearing over fifteen years now. My very nice Medical Alert bracelet of pure silver beads and deep blue Swarovski crystal beads. 

Bought it all those years ago upon the insistence of my critical care pulmo Bought one of the not so cheap or cheap looking ones, bracelet going on wrist I wanted a nice looking one if I had to wear every day. The way the bracelets work is that one side has that international emblem for medical alert and the other side has a few of your conditions named along with your name, registration number and the phone number to call for complete information needed in case I'm too incapacitated to talk.

Now a days after occupational therapy and learning rescue breathing I no longer black out, so the bracelet is less important. Back when I bought it the way my asthma episodes went is exposure-->wheezing-->throat closing-->blacking out-->lather, rinse, repeated. As soon as I blacked out from lack of oxygen my vocal cords relaxed and I started wheezily breathing again. So I had vocal cord movement adding a bad layer to all of this. OT helped end that, but not the stupid wheezing.

Not this either. My skin deciding out of the blue to react to who knows what. This one was particularly hard to take because of my belief that I needed to wear this. Here it doesn't matter so much because no ENT or doctor is going to call the USA to get my records. I can hardly imagine all the "Que?? Repeate!" going on. 

To this day I don't know what happened. I didn't get it wet, it wasn't hauled through chemicals and it was made of substances it's rare to be allergic to, but I still reacted. The red line turned into evil red carbunkles and oozed not long after this started with the redness and itching. This was big Benadryl time, both cream and pill. Ugh!

Right now I'm dealing with what may well be POTS. I have been having blood pressure issues with it being much too low. It's impacting my ability to do much of nothing. It seems to want to hover around 80/45 right now. Clinic I use closed for renovations and I'd have to drive a far piece outside of my area just to get someone to try and figure this out. I'm spending days horizontal. Is this a hangover from the flu? Or because I ended drinking caffeine laden drinks all day long? Tempting to guzzle a few just so I can get a few things done. Suspect it is some sort of new mast cell idiocy like reacting to the bracelet was...c'est la vie!

 

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