My Allergy Journey: Scaling Up
Today I said good-bye to the tiny spoonlets I’ve been using to measure out the amount of ground sunflower seed and cashew powder over the past three months. I have graduated to measured amounts using a scale supplied by Latitude. Excitement!
In my first session in December, I took a dose of an amount so small I could barely see it, scooped out using a spoon that, in a previous life, might have been used to snort something illicit. Eventually, that was replaced by a slightly larger spoon, and finally a spoon that measures around 3-4 milligrams across. I was taught to self dose the same amount, mixed in with applesauce, for the following two weeks. Every two weeks I return the amount has doubled.
Today, the spoons took a backstage to a very sensitive scale. It measures in fractions of a milligram. The nurse trained me in how to measure out my new dose for the next two weeks, between 0.106 and 0.118 grams. My darkroom-era chemical mixing muscle memory kicked in, and in my first attempt I got right in the middle of the range: 0.112 grams. Nurse Nichole was impressed.
Street Photography: I Found A New Spot
My street photos during this time have been limited to the short walk between Penn Station and the 34th St. Herald Square subway stop, as well as the streets between 72nd St. and 2nd Ave and Latitude’s office between 1st and 2nd on 75th St.
Today I found a spot with great early-morning light and lots of pedestrian traffic, right across the street from the main entrance to Penn Station. It’s at the former site of the iconic but demolished, Pennsylvania Hotel. With no building there, sunlight streams through and over the wooden barrier separating the construction site from the sidewalk, providing backlight and slide light for those walking towards Penn Station, and direct frontal lighting for commuters crossing the street from west to east.
I lingered for a few minutes at the corner, taking advantage of the light and the fact that I was early because the trains were on time.
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