h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Largely absent because I'm mosty in a moany, whiny mood these days. And you lot put up with more than enough w**k rants and the emotional wreck that I can often be.


My cat allergy seems to be worse than I remember. Or maybe it's because Pippin is a baby (and a very handsome, cuddly, mental little bucket of fluff he has turned out to be)

[aside: can you believe, the family appears to be operating a policy of attachment-cat-parenting with the little beggar? He even sits on my feet while I'm using the jigsaw for cryin' out loud! then cries piteously and has to be brushed when he tries to clean himself and his tongue gets clogged up with sawdust]

Anyway: back to the cat allergy. I can put up with the slight nose-running that I have. My experience tells me that over time it will calm down (or I won't notice it any more). Because it stops when I leave the house. But... I can't run any more.

After about 6 or 7 minutes I'm wheezing like an asthmatic about to breathe her last. Once or twice I have managed to push through it, but that means 5kms of pure torture. And while I to kep fit - mostly I run for fun. So it's not fun.

I'm off to the doc tomorrow in the hope that all I need is an inhaler.

Wish me , please!

Feel better soon

Get rid of the cat, hard as this may appear, but it sounds serious from what you tell.

I do sympathise - my cat allergy is so bad that I'll start sneezing shortly after a cat owner enters my surgery. I have to put wee symbols on their records to remind me to take an anti-histamine before they arrive.

Hope the inhaler works and you can get back to

As cold as it may seem, I have to agree with B'Elana. There can always be a good anc caring home found for a furry being. Your own health, and to some degree sanity, matter most with a small tribe and a full real world to meet daily.

Apply adequate postage, and there is probably room here for one more .

Or you could investigate desensitisation therapy? Don't know if it would be available on the German Nash - or if you'd be covered by health insurance for this sort of thing?

One of my sons had it done. He is privately insured, via his Dad and it cost some 800 Euros. ( - might have been DM... not sure now). Anyway, a lot of money. I don't think you can get it done on the gesetzliche Krankenkasse.(the insurance that the rest of us have - working mums like me, Sho and B'El)

Euros or DM - fearsomely expensive either way