Just what the doctor ordered! (Albuquerque, Santa Fe: short sale, insurance, house)
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Wow RD, not only is the lack of meds impressive, the word *RUN* is a mind blower. Much less long run. Tell her I said congrats, that is just absolutely awesome.
I just read your status and started laughing. I became sooooo addicted to REAL sopapillas while there, I started making them for our family and friends here. We got back at the beginning of July and instead of the regular hotdogs and burgers for the fourth, I did a New Mexican feast featuring stuffed sopapillas. Everyone sorta looked dubious until they tried them. They went over so well, they started a discussion about what I should do with them the next time I made them ;0) One friend even takes over the frying if they show up while i'm cooking them.
I love sopapillas. Stuffed, with honey, plain - doesn't matter. My answer to "what should we have for dinner?" is always "I dunno, does it come with sopapillas?"
I'll pass on your congratulations. Hope your health takes the same arc when you get out here!
I love sopapillas. Stuffed, with honey, plain - doesn't matter. My answer to "what should we have for dinner?" is always "I dunno, does it come with sopapillas?"
I'll pass on your congratulations. Hope your health takes the same arc when you get out here!
Thank you. I got the letter from my doc today. It was sooooo cool reading the words "Move to New Mexico" in his recommendations.
The first time I tried sopapillas was at, of all places, Don Pablo's Restaurant here in Knoxville. They served them hot with a buttered rum/vanilla sauce.
You may need the inhaler until you get used to the high altitude.
Maybe. The doc took me off the advair, which was the only thing I used in NM. Oddly enough, in Tres Piedras, Greg had a hard time breathing and I didn't. I wonder if my body was so used to being oxygen starved it just figured it was just another day at the office?
I have plenty of refills on the rescue inhaler and get 'em at Wal Mart for the same reason we bought our tires with road hazard at Wally World, as opposed to a mom n pop. I figure as we cross the US, there's gonna be a WalMart near just about everywhere.
May I suggest setting up a household ventillation system that slightly perssurized the house through a very fine filter. This would keep the DUST and pollen from sifting through open windows and doors.
Hmmmm.. something connected to the heat/air system or freestanding, Greg? One thing the doc mentioned that I may have problems with is the Mountain Cedar. Says it blooms in February. Ever heard of it? Supposedly a black colored pollen. (Stuff we get here is so yellow it colors cars as it coats them!)
Location: Minnesota,,,wanting to move to New Mexico
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Rose, I live in an old adobe with hardwood floors and floor furnaces (no other vents - just these things that heat up the air with flame right under your feet, which is a little alarming) and my partner, who had asthma back in NYC, uses nothing here. No Pulmicort, no albuterol, no nothing. Our only dust problem is around the windows, since the windows, too, seem to be 100 years old.
Good Luck! Hope you get to move here.
I also have asthma, I am wondering what part of NM you are in. My husband and I are really thinking of moving south. We're searching for answers as to where is the best place to live with asthma...I'll be waiting to hear from you,,,thank you...
Hi, i'm not yet in NM but we did take an exploratory trip there in June. Your breathing will vary, depending on your triggers. For instance, humidity is my problem, so I looked for a dry state. If dry air bothers you, NM won't help. If dust bothers you, NM won't help. If pollution or grass or leafy-type trees bother you... well, you've come to the right place.
We started our trip in Alamogordo, down in the southern part of the state. We then stopped in White Oaks (ghost town), Moriarty/Edgewood, Albuquerque (the previous three towns mid state), Santa Fe and finally Taos and Tres Piedras. TP is the northernmost town before you fall off into Colorado. The elevation ranged from 4350 Alamo, 5312 Abq. and 8800 TP. My breathing was more or less the same throughout. My husband, who has sleep apnea, but not day time breathing problems, had issues with the *thin* air in TP.
What we did was:
I discovered my triggers and researched what areas of the US were the least likely to trigger a reaction. We then took into account our other requirements (temps close to here, near a large town for work, four seasons, horse/family friendly were some of ours) and then researched some more. Then, and I know this is pricey and somewhat difficult to do, but we saved some cash and took a family vacation to NM to test a few things- could we physically live there, could we be happy there, how was my breathing... etc. The East Mountain area (Moriarty, Edgewood, etc) fit the bill.
Just keep in mind, moving away from the irritants you know may move you closer to ones that you didn't know would bother you. A trip to your prospective new home is a great help in this instance.
Sorry so long, but there's sooooo much to take into consideration when relocating for your health.
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