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The symptoms were worse at night, starting at about 11:00 p.m. I reasoned this must be the time of “critical mass” of the day’s exposure One night, around this time, a close friend of mine, Sandra, had come by to visit. We were just chatting when my eyes started burning, and I felt the slight tingling sensation in my lower lip which presaged the whole syndrome. I had told Sandra about the problem, trying to figure out what it might be I was allergic to, and I don’t think she really understood how it worked. As she sat there watching, before her eyes, my lips slowly swelled until they were almost inside out; my eyes became slits, oozing fluid that I had to constantly wipe away with Sandra was completely shocked. emergency room right now!” I laughed it off, went to the kitchen to get some benadryl, and told her that there wasn’t much the doctors could do. They’d observed the swelling, the hives, and the inflammation of my eyes. The “fence post” in the chest part just simply did not cooperate with being put under a microscope. If the doctors couldn’t catch it in the middle of microscope. “If the doctors couldn’t catch it in the middle of manifesting, they couldn’t know what it was. Tests done when there doctors it in “middle of I explained to Sandra that, on two occasions when the symptoms began to manifest, my husband had driven me to the hospital, and by the time we arrived, the heart symptoms had gone away entirely, leaving only the skin manifestations. This was puzzling in the extreme, and it was taken as proof that there was absolutely nothing wrong with me except in my mind. However, as long as I was sitting still and didn’t try to move around too much, I was fine. Moreover, my brain hadn’t died, so I continued to read and study to divert my mind. I also kept a schedule of hypnosis sessions. Without reading and my work, I would have felt completely useless. I would have had no life at all. 87 High Strangeness — Part One treatment designed to more or less desensitize me to whatever was affecting my system. to whatever allergen was active at the moment. tissues and welts were raised on my arms and legs. “We need to get you to an couldn’t catch were no symptoms told them nothing. I, on the other hand, was thoroughly frightened at what was happening to me.