Have you ever had impetigo?

Eat for the health of it.

I can barely remember when I had impetigo. I can remember my cousins all staying away from me like I was a leper. I played with the scooter all afternoon because noone else wanted to play with it after I touched it. I can't say as I blamed them, they were awful looking things, but not as bad as my purpura was, and I still have a few sores yet. They have stopped hurting. The largest one (2 inches x 3 inches,) which was the first to develope, fell off Wednesday. I believe that was about 9 weeks I had that large one and I still have the second largest one(4 inches x 1/2 inch and some smaller ones to contend with, which will make it right about 2-1/2 months of suffering with this crazy stuff.
In case you haven't heard this before, I broke out with a horrible looking sores all over my legs, below my knees and down, and the worst ones were at my ankles. They started out as tiny little blisters and they were right close together and were full of like a puss and blood mixture and one by one they broke and they attached themselves to the ones next to them until they were huge. I went to my doctor and her associate three times,they gave me medicine and salve,shots blood tests and it got worse. I went into the emergency room and they checked me and admitted me and I was there for four days. I had test after test and IVs, they took a biopsy of the sores and they came up with,I had Henoch-Shienlen Purpura, which is a pretty serious blood type infection and what I have read up on, is a combination of allergic reactions such as, from something I injested, like a combination of chemicals in my food and generic drugs and my blood or my body just retaliated by sending out all these little blood blisters that just united and grew bigger, I guess they wanted to send a message that my body does not like these chemicals.

It really didn't stop there though, a few days after I got out of the hospital, I broke out with huge (I called them hives) (my doctor still called them purpura) what I read up on purpura,or hives are a part of this. I had a swollen eye, swollen lips, I had raised hive like things on my chin, then I got huge ones on my stomach area, bottom part of my arms and backs of my legs and buttocks, were covered with these hives or purpura.

Just for the record, in case anyone that reads this ever has a problem with allergies, they are thing to fool around with. I have been bothered with allergies to the chemicals in food additives, and generic drugs, I cannot use generic drugs and I explained that to my druggist but for some reason they still gave me the generic and that's when everything went haywire. My skin specialist told me to make sure I don't get the generic next time. I purposely went into the drugstore to show the druggist the sores on my legs, she was horrified by them. I told her that they cannot give me generic drugs, it could kill me. She went right over and put a warning on my records. I hope this helps.

What angers me most is that they know I am not to use generic drugs and they try to tell me there isn't any difference but there is a difference in the filler and it is the filler that I am allergic to. I cannot figure out why they can't make drugs in our country where they have standards and they know what they use.

Now you know why I am such a fanatic when it comes to eating all natural foods. You know, if everyone stuck together and ate only foods that do not contain bad chemicals such as Aspartame, Splenda, HFCS, MSG, bleaching agents, such as chlorine in the city water and flour and white sugar. There are a lot of chemicals going into our foods everyday. That is the reason I wrote my all natural cookbook.I hope to teach people to stay away from foods that made with these chemicals and may keep them from these horrible allergies. Most people do not realize that when they have what they think is hay fever, or they get rashes, hives, maybe they lose their hair,or have itching and burning eyes, this can be from injesting chemicals. Read your labels and see how many chemicals you eat every day. IT IS SCARY.

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Laughter is healthy:

Mr. Smith goes to the doctor to get the result's of his wife's blood test.
"I'm sorry, sir, but there has been a mix up with your wifes' test results and another lady. "We are not sure if your wife has Alzheimer's disease or if she has AIDS."
The man is discusted and asks, "Can we take the test over again?"
"Only if you want to pay for it because your insurance will only cover one of these tests each year."
"Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
"The only thing I can recommend is that you take her for a ride and drop her off somewhere and if she can find her way home; don't sleep with her."