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kaberettCN: difficulty with breathing, all the ongoing stuff.
Hopefully!
I've been trying to avoid making this your problem, but I think I probably need to let you know what's going on. As I mentioned in passing yesterday I've got a serious smoke allergy; I got exposed yesterday and haven't been able to leave the house today without risking making things worse and prolonging recovery.
The issue is people smoking on the front steps of the RSM - particularly when all doors are open, levels of smoke in the entire central stairwell (even on the second floor, to my surprise), in the corridor out to Dalby Court and in the corridor along to LG18 are enough to set a reaction off. Once I'm in reaction/have been sensitised, it takes much lower levels of allergen to cause problems; I'm currently at a point where it hurts to breathe. From this point it tends to take me about a week to recover fully, but I'm hoping to be back in tomorrow and am doing what I can at home (putting together the Chauvel spreadsheet as we speak...). As a heads-up, depending on how things go I might need to ask you & Mark not to smoke that day before our meeting on the 24th.
I've been attempting to discuss this with Fraser and the Disability Advisory Service for several months at this point. Guy Fairhurst is now aware; I've contacted HR and my union safety rep to see if they can give me any advice on how to proceed, and they've suggested I contact Occupational Health, so that's next on my to-do list. For my part I'm also stepping up investigations into the physical problem, which unfortunately means I'm going to have at least three lengthy medical appointments on the topic over the next month.
Obviously if you've any suggestions for other options I might consider I'd be very grateful! In the meantime I'm going to continue doing my best to handle it on my own, but having reached this point I do think you need to know. :-/
Cheers
-a.
eta sent, having checked in with about five different people over a variety of media; please feel free to make reassuring noises at me.
Hopefully!
I've been trying to avoid making this your problem, but I think I probably need to let you know what's going on. As I mentioned in passing yesterday I've got a serious smoke allergy; I got exposed yesterday and haven't been able to leave the house today without risking making things worse and prolonging recovery.
The issue is people smoking on the front steps of the RSM - particularly when all doors are open, levels of smoke in the entire central stairwell (even on the second floor, to my surprise), in the corridor out to Dalby Court and in the corridor along to LG18 are enough to set a reaction off. Once I'm in reaction/have been sensitised, it takes much lower levels of allergen to cause problems; I'm currently at a point where it hurts to breathe. From this point it tends to take me about a week to recover fully, but I'm hoping to be back in tomorrow and am doing what I can at home (putting together the Chauvel spreadsheet as we speak...). As a heads-up, depending on how things go I might need to ask you & Mark not to smoke that day before our meeting on the 24th.
I've been attempting to discuss this with Fraser and the Disability Advisory Service for several months at this point. Guy Fairhurst is now aware; I've contacted HR and my union safety rep to see if they can give me any advice on how to proceed, and they've suggested I contact Occupational Health, so that's next on my to-do list. For my part I'm also stepping up investigations into the physical problem, which unfortunately means I'm going to have at least three lengthy medical appointments on the topic over the next month.
Obviously if you've any suggestions for other options I might consider I'd be very grateful! In the meantime I'm going to continue doing my best to handle it on my own, but having reached this point I do think you need to know. :-/
Cheers
-a.
eta sent, having checked in with about five different people over a variety of media; please feel free to make reassuring noises at me.