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jebbypalSo, my summer travel just got bumped up by a thousand or so miles as I'll now be working on a project that the client lead wants me to fly to amsterdam to participate in a team meeting. Which yay for work and accounts, but boo for having a likely there and back trip w/ maybe 1 night of sleep in between. Of course, they haven't scheduled said meeting that will be occurring in a month's time, so I can't start arranging any travel yet. :(
Also found out last week that Organic Valley finally decided that it's whole milk needs vitamin D added, which is bad for the corn allergy (the vitamin is typically added in emulsion of corn oil - enough to give me a sinus headache w/in half an hour of drinking). They'll still have shelf stable UHT whole milk without vitamin D, but it doesn't really taste the same. I guess on the bright side, I can use it as an excuse to keep chocolate syrup stocked for chocolate milk.
But seriously, today at target just kinda was the straw that broke the camel's back.
So for about 8 or more years, I've been a faithful consumer of kotex pads. Tampons are of the bad as I always get a UTI (well, an n of 3, but that was enough for me), and almost all the other pad brands either have fragrance or a plasticy cover that results in very uncomfortable itching within 2 days.
Well, now Kotex pads have decided that a simple cotton pad is too much to ask for -- no, it needs aloe and vitamin E to be "soft on your skin". *head desk* Seriously dudes, it's COTTON, not burlap. It didn't need help being soft.
Also, deodorizers, fragrances, etc are frankly insulting etc. If it's a really bad odor, I've yet to meet the deodorant or perfume that actually makes it better.
Gaaaah. I'll have to see on my corn allergy boards if any of the brands at Whole Foods are corn-free, but I remember seeing a lot of posts recently about cloth pads, so I doubt it. And cloth pads are sort of fine, except to me they are even hotter than normal disposable pads and it's almost summer. I bought a reusable diva cup to try out, and maybe that will be a solution, but I'm uncertain....Had bad experience with the disposable diva cups I tried out a few years ago, but this looks like it might be smaller.....I should have enough disposables left to at least get me through one of my trips if I'm on my period.
Siigh, I'm usually good and nonchalant about my allergy and just thankful that I'm not anaphylactic. I mean, it's expensive, but now that I make more than hand-to-mouth wages, I don't mind the expense so much. But when you start to encroach on the day to day like milk (the one drink other than coffee, tea, and water that I have reliably) and something easy like disposable pads, well it gets discouraging. It's been a while since the allergy has hit me with one of those.
Also found out last week that Organic Valley finally decided that it's whole milk needs vitamin D added, which is bad for the corn allergy (the vitamin is typically added in emulsion of corn oil - enough to give me a sinus headache w/in half an hour of drinking). They'll still have shelf stable UHT whole milk without vitamin D, but it doesn't really taste the same. I guess on the bright side, I can use it as an excuse to keep chocolate syrup stocked for chocolate milk.
But seriously, today at target just kinda was the straw that broke the camel's back.
So for about 8 or more years, I've been a faithful consumer of kotex pads. Tampons are of the bad as I always get a UTI (well, an n of 3, but that was enough for me), and almost all the other pad brands either have fragrance or a plasticy cover that results in very uncomfortable itching within 2 days.
Well, now Kotex pads have decided that a simple cotton pad is too much to ask for -- no, it needs aloe and vitamin E to be "soft on your skin". *head desk* Seriously dudes, it's COTTON, not burlap. It didn't need help being soft.
Also, deodorizers, fragrances, etc are frankly insulting etc. If it's a really bad odor, I've yet to meet the deodorant or perfume that actually makes it better.
Gaaaah. I'll have to see on my corn allergy boards if any of the brands at Whole Foods are corn-free, but I remember seeing a lot of posts recently about cloth pads, so I doubt it. And cloth pads are sort of fine, except to me they are even hotter than normal disposable pads and it's almost summer. I bought a reusable diva cup to try out, and maybe that will be a solution, but I'm uncertain....Had bad experience with the disposable diva cups I tried out a few years ago, but this looks like it might be smaller.....I should have enough disposables left to at least get me through one of my trips if I'm on my period.
Siigh, I'm usually good and nonchalant about my allergy and just thankful that I'm not anaphylactic. I mean, it's expensive, but now that I make more than hand-to-mouth wages, I don't mind the expense so much. But when you start to encroach on the day to day like milk (the one drink other than coffee, tea, and water that I have reliably) and something easy like disposable pads, well it gets discouraging. It's been a while since the allergy has hit me with one of those.
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Date: 2012-05-17 10:24 pm (UTC)