I don't really know. Mom and I both in retrospect had symptoms for years. Mine got much much worse suddenly after I got an upper respiratory infection that made everyone in the family's autoimmune issues go haywire for some reason. Grammy caught it, developed asthmatic bronchitis, and had a diabetes flair up that sent her blood sugar up to 500 and put her in the hospital. My sister's been having an autoimmune flair up since she got it too, and Mom and I had worsening symptoms of this. No one is really sure why it suddenly develops in individuals, but it often develops suddenly after years and years of frequent problem free contact with birds.
My mother's x-rays looked like she had infectious pneumonia (because she had secondary pneumonia), and because of her other immune issues, she tested negatively to the sensitivity test. However, once the pneumonia went away, and she got reallllllly sick after sleeping with my grandmother's down comforter...
I know I did the right thing. We couldn't keep them. It was an actual impossibility. But I still feel bad, and I wish I could explain to them what was happening, and why, because everything is suddenly different for them, and they don't have any idea why. It's the things I can't help that always make me fuss.
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Date: 2014-05-08 03:17 am (UTC)My mother's x-rays looked like she had infectious pneumonia (because she had secondary pneumonia), and because of her other immune issues, she tested negatively to the sensitivity test. However, once the pneumonia went away, and she got reallllllly sick after sleeping with my grandmother's down comforter...
I know I did the right thing. We couldn't keep them. It was an actual impossibility. But I still feel bad, and I wish I could explain to them what was happening, and why, because everything is suddenly different for them, and they don't have any idea why. It's the things I can't help that always make me fuss.