I have developed an allergy! I think. I’ve never been allergic to anything in my life except for cheap metal.

Back in November I decided to drastically increase my consumption of fruits and veggies. It went well at first. I bought multiple containers of dates because they were on sale and I did the same with raspberries. I noticed my tongue started hurting after I ate dates. It started getting worse and worse. I laid off the dates then raspberries started causing it. It was hurting really badly. Fast forward a couple weeks and my beloved bananas started causing it tooooooo.

I have my most cherished banana – green smoothie every single day to break my fast. Sometimes it doesn’t bother me hallelujah.

According to Doctor Google it is oral allergy syndrome and it can vary in severity depending on the current season. It seems pretty complicated to me, there are charts about it online and I have yet to figure my issue out. But I am just going easy on the offending fruits and if I need to I’ll gargle salt water, it helps a lot (thanks for that advice Emily!!). I plan to talk to my doctor about this, as Doctor Google is not to be trusted.

I was trying to do mostly fruits and veggies for my various health problems but I had to hit the brakes on that for now. There are a lot of health issues I’ve been struggling with that I haven’t written about much if at all… So I plan on getting into that in future posts. One quick update is that I tested negative for 12 types of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. I could still have the 13th type but will have to do further testing to determine that. Ehlers Danlos is a connected tissue disease and when I read about it it seemed like it explained damn near, if not all my physical ailments. So, no real definitive news yet but at the very least it seems that the doctors and I are ruling things out. Hey, using process of elimination is one way to figure this out!

I just realized that I pet 7 dogs today and I did not go to the dog park or a pet store lol!

Another thing I plan on going into depth about is the many things I’ve quit over the last year. Little addictions and habits that I had to let go of for health reasons. I am pretty proud of myself! Another addiction I want to quit is using so many exclamation points‼️ I am rarely ever that excited lol! It’s kind of a female people-pleaser tendency to overuse them. Well, that’s all for now here’s a photo of Luna, I’m teaching her to carry things for me, she’s a natural 😁