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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote 2015-02-02 07:15 am (UTC)

Re: Help for dust

So far I know that Mallory's triggers include dust, physical exertion, stress, and laughter. She is particularly vulnerable when they stack together. Oh, her use of Theatrical Voice is another trigger, which is why she's almost quit using it.

I had some long conversations with a fan who knows about asthma and that really helped develop the presentation. Mallory's asthma is not well controlled. Before she got pregnant, it was averaging several attacks a month: enough to need a rescue inhaler, but not the several times a week level of uncontrolled that can land someone in the hospital. But it's worse now, because she's breathing for two and the pregnancy is hard on her. She needs to get the asthma under control for real, not keep stretching and hoping. Otherwise she really will wind up in the emergency room, healer or no healer. Neither Heron or Clement has the kind of training to fix the worst kinds of asthma attack that can happen.

Heron is going to freak if he finds out that she's been using pepper spray as a weapon.

One thing that would really help is just surrounding Mallory with hypoallergenic stuff. Every little bit helps. I don't have the piece written about this stuff, but I have notes for an incense-triggered event, and Damask looking for hypoallergenic pillows. There's actually a gizmological filling called Daun which is better than eider, but also even more expensive, and pure eider pillows cost thousands of dollars. :/

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