Over the past couple years, I’ve been struggling with some really significant health issues. I have been dealing with some sort of allergy since I was a kid. I had reactions to Swedish Fish, it was my first real experience of cutting food out of my life and just kind of moving on. When I was about 9 I loved Swedish Fish. I’d eat them as often as I could get my grubby mitts on them. However, my throat would swell up. After the second time it happened, I just stopped eating them.

Almost two decades later, I was having issues with wheat. I’d been having those since I discovered wheat beer while in undergrad, but it’d escalated to the point of impacting bread. I’d also started to have issues with cheese. Dairy was also not something I’d enjoyed for a while, so it just kind felt like time to cut them both out.

This was hard, much harder than giving up Swedish Fish.

About 5 or so years later, I finally went to an allergist. From there with immunotherapy things just kind of blew up. I’ve had my diet restricted to about 6 or 7 different things. It’s been tough. I’ve shed about 90 pounds on this diet. However, I’ve been able to get into shape a lot, because of my indoor cycling trainer.

I’m currently going through the process of trying a couple new drugs. Right now I’m testing out Orladeyo. This one is interesting, since it was generally made for Hereditary angioedema, which is a very significant swelling disease. It looks pretty challenging to live with.

So far, I’ve been only it only a few days, the immediate Gastro side effect aren’t too bad, just a bit of burping and discomfort, which is significantly better than the potential. I’ve already seen some benefit of it, I’ve shed about 3 pounds of water weight in just about 2 days. Clearly, the medicine is doing something for me. I’m pretty happy about that. I’m hoping that this will work for me to allow me to resume the immunotherapy.

This year I’ve been struggling to do any writing or editing, in general. I hope to get back to the editing this month and finish up Goat’s Legacy. I’d like to get it published early next year. I plan to turn the Good Goddamn into a Vella for Kindle. I also hope to get back to writing a blog on here once a week or once every two weeks. Just to get back into the swing of writing.

Things have just been hard.