Kale

What up reader? Finally went grocery shopping and I grabbed some real food. I'm trying kale in smoothies for the first time. I tried making kale chips before (they sucked, but I was told that I over cooked them), and after all the raving on the internet about kale smoothies, I'm giving them a shot. I'm doing kale, bananas, strawberries, and soy milk (I love this stuff). So, we'll see how that goes.

I've decided that I'm going to try some personal medical research this summer. I have two skin conditions called cold urticaria (cold hives) that acts up when my skin is exposed to cold things like snow, cold air, cold water, etc. The other one is dermographism (allergy to physical pressure) where my skin if brushed up against something, or scratched I get raised hives in the shape of the scratch.

At this time there is no known cure, little research, and I'm unable to find a treatment that's side effects aren't worse than the reactions I'm trying to avoid.

Since I've been eating mostly natural foods my skin has become much less sensitive (or I could be growing out of I suppose, but eating this way can't hurt). Recently I discovered that spray sunscreen may help (I realize that if I'm using sunscreen I'm probably not cold, but just hear me out). I went on a bike ride when there was drizzling rain, and came back covered in hives. Apparently I don't learn and did it again with sunscreen and nothing happened. I plan to look into this further, this summer in a more controlled setting. I'll post my results conclusive or not.


So that's my plan, and I'll write again if something interesting happens