When I was a little girl, I suffered through all sorts of allergies. Skin allergies, respiratory infections, asthma, hay fever, and the like were a year round occurrence for me. It started in infancy and continued until I was about 16. I even had to switch schools for my 7th grade year because my school was under construction and I was having really bad allergic reactions to the drywall or something. I haven't had many symptoms of my allergies during adulthood, other than the random asthma attack after being around really dusty places or the occasional flare of eczema. However, ever since I moved back to Putnam County, I have a patch of eczema on my arm that won't go away, my breathing is not 100%, and I have gone through more tissue than I went through all of last year.
Living in a corn field, across from a bean field, and downwind from a lot of livestock are probably the likely culprits. I did NOT miss this aspect of life in this county.
My son and husband also have had horrible sinus drainage. In fact, my husband had never had any allergic reactions or hay fever until this past month. This has prompted him to further try to convince me to buy a home in the woods, farther from the corn and beans than any of the other places we are considering. I would love to live in the woods, but not for as much money as the person wants. I do think that we need to be in a very clean home that isn't right next to agricultural business in order to avoid the plague of allergies, but until then I am thankful that we are where we are.
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