Surprise! It's Latex
Nov. 11th, 2022 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigidIf you follow me on twitter (brigidkeely on there) then you may be aware of the fact that:
1) I'm allergic/sensitive to Latex
2) There are N95 masks that have Latex straps and don't say so on the box and I wore one for almost twelve hours
This resulted in raised angry red welts that took about three weeks to fade. They hurt and itched and my whole face was swollen. I'm glad I'm not ALLERGIC allergic, my understanding is that anaphylaxis is no fun.
One of my good friends tried to console me. "It looks like you're dressed up as a cute kitty! You're my Kitty Girl now."
My worst friend started calling me Naruto.
I was worried they would scar but luckily they did not... although I felt weird as they started to really fade. They'd become a part of my face during that time, part of me. And now they were going away. In some way I sort of missed those marks.
I no longer do.
I had a doctor's appointment today and as the first of three people started asking me questions about my medical history she noted that they do not use latex anything. I said that's good and asked if she knew that some N95 masks had latex straps.
She paused what she was doing and looked like she'd run face first into a wall that hadn't been there three seconds ago. Her train of thought was almost completely derailed. She had to take a moment to collect herself, asked me again about the latex, then had to take another moment. The concept of unlabeled latex in a product just absolutely broke her brain.
I have never had that effect on a medical person before, although I've gotten "what? wait, what?" before.
I don't know why this makes me feel like I've scored some points but it does.
1) I'm allergic/sensitive to Latex
2) There are N95 masks that have Latex straps and don't say so on the box and I wore one for almost twelve hours
This resulted in raised angry red welts that took about three weeks to fade. They hurt and itched and my whole face was swollen. I'm glad I'm not ALLERGIC allergic, my understanding is that anaphylaxis is no fun.
One of my good friends tried to console me. "It looks like you're dressed up as a cute kitty! You're my Kitty Girl now."
My worst friend started calling me Naruto.
I was worried they would scar but luckily they did not... although I felt weird as they started to really fade. They'd become a part of my face during that time, part of me. And now they were going away. In some way I sort of missed those marks.
I no longer do.
I had a doctor's appointment today and as the first of three people started asking me questions about my medical history she noted that they do not use latex anything. I said that's good and asked if she knew that some N95 masks had latex straps.
She paused what she was doing and looked like she'd run face first into a wall that hadn't been there three seconds ago. Her train of thought was almost completely derailed. She had to take a moment to collect herself, asked me again about the latex, then had to take another moment. The concept of unlabeled latex in a product just absolutely broke her brain.
I have never had that effect on a medical person before, although I've gotten "what? wait, what?" before.
I don't know why this makes me feel like I've scored some points but it does.
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Date: 2022-11-12 12:20 pm (UTC)I'm not surprised you shocked her
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Date: 2022-11-12 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-12 11:12 pm (UTC)