green fuzzy mold!!!!!!!
so i think i have discovered i have an allergy to mold -- so if anyone has any ideas on how to de-mold a room, please let me know. this was a pretty busy week, not with work of course, but just generally busy. friday night i spent the night in one of the coastal barangay's, getting to know the people that i will be working with in october. it was fun, but way too intense. they want me to live there--and build my nipa, but i think that i will have no privacy or alone time -- so i am still looking for a place to live out the rest of my 2 years. saturday was erin's birthday weekend, so we spent the night at the beach and cooked some food -- fun. the rain let up just enough for the sun to peek through for a few hours, so the next day we swam, jumped off of boats and went kayaking. it was a great weekend. monday i just hung out in the office(which is full of mold) and ate rice with my co-workers. they have been extra nice and talkative to me since i have started eating rice for lunch. when i brought a sandwich, they hardly talked to me at all -- but now that i'm eating rice, i guess i'm in the club. tuesday i just couldn't take it anymore and i had to go to the hospital and see a doctor. my skin is covered in whelps and lesions, my eyes are red, puffy and itchy and i keep getting respiratory infections. the allergy docotor told me that it was a food allergy and put me on an"all rice, all day" diet. she told me not to eat veggies, fruit or meat -- no sugar, gum or chocolate -- no soda, milk, tea or coffee. and she told me not to brush my teeth for 7 days. what! all i can eat is pork and rice ---and since i don't eat pork, i guess it's all rice all day. NO THANKS!!!! so i called my mom, and we figured out that i must be allergic to mold. i am allergic to pennicillian, penn comes from mold, there is mold covering my room--wow, that was quick and easy. why couldn't the doctor do that?? oh, and she also gave me a prescriptions for steroids -- so i may have a beard and talk like a man, but at least i won't have hives. so needless to say, i'm not taking the steroids. today i got to vaccinate dogs for rabbies. it was interesting, we hiked through woods, rice fields, and ankle deep mud, trying to get to all of the houses. it was fun at first, but hiking at noon in 100 deg heat -- whew, that sucks. but atleast the puppies got their vaccinations. so now i am just trying to spend as much time away from my office and house until i can get this under control. so seriously if anyone has any good tips -- don't hesitate to email me.

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