I've had many, many cats over the years (we got our first ones when I was 9 or 10) but none of them were orange.
Now my son is severely allergic to them so we couldn't have one even if our landlady allowed it. He told me that when he grows up and moves out of the house he'd going to get me an orange cat because I couldn't have one all the years he was little. Sad part is my son loves cats, too. We had 2 when he was a baby (both black, one was the original cat we got when I was 9 or 10--he was almost 20 years old) but we had to get rid of them when he was 1 because of various reasons.
4 years later he developed the allergy. It's really scary when he has a reaction (full face swelling up, hives, eye swelled shut, lips turning blue). Freaks me out. Just being in a room where a cat was causes his face to swell and his eyes go completely blood shot. Heck he can get that from playing with a kid that has a cat because the hairs are on their clothes.
He's also allergic to dogs but the reaction isn't as severe. We have to keep lots of Benadryl in the house and car just in case he has a reaction (every single one of his friends as a dog and/or cat).
The motion sickness makes me mad. I LOVED roller coasters when I was a kid. I can no longer go on the looping ones or I get so sick I can't move. I haven't been on any in 12 years so I'm not sure how I would do on the non-looping kind but watching them would probably give me a headache. The kids like to go to a park with a merry-go-round and I can't watch them playing on it without getting a migraine and feel like throwing up. Going on it is not an option. Ugh.
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Date: 20 May 2012 07:51 pm (UTC)Now my son is severely allergic to them so we couldn't have one even if our landlady allowed it. He told me that when he grows up and moves out of the house he'd going to get me an orange cat because I couldn't have one all the years he was little. Sad part is my son loves cats, too. We had 2 when he was a baby (both black, one was the original cat we got when I was 9 or 10--he was almost 20 years old) but we had to get rid of them when he was 1 because of various reasons.
4 years later he developed the allergy. It's really scary when he has a reaction (full face swelling up, hives, eye swelled shut, lips turning blue). Freaks me out. Just being in a room where a cat was causes his face to swell and his eyes go completely blood shot. Heck he can get that from playing with a kid that has a cat because the hairs are on their clothes.
He's also allergic to dogs but the reaction isn't as severe. We have to keep lots of Benadryl in the house and car just in case he has a reaction (every single one of his friends as a dog and/or cat).
The motion sickness makes me mad. I LOVED roller coasters when I was a kid. I can no longer go on the looping ones or I get so sick I can't move. I haven't been on any in 12 years so I'm not sure how I would do on the non-looping kind but watching them would probably give me a headache. The kids like to go to a park with a merry-go-round and I can't watch them playing on it without getting a migraine and feel like throwing up. Going on it is not an option. Ugh.