It's been a few MONTHS since Gracie first showed signs of Millary Dermatitis. Since then, I've had LOTS of test done. A few weeks ago, when I was working too much to bother to post anything (I know, lazy!), I found out that the HESKA blood test results were in!

For a mere $400!!!!!!!!!!!! I found out my stupid cat is allergic to stupid DUST MITES and stupid MOLDS!

(what about smart dust mites and smart mold..who knows?)

CRAP!

What PLANET do I have to move to where there ISN'T DUST MITES AND MOLD?

Why can't Gracie be allergic to, I dunno...ELEPHANTS! or maybe COFFEE? Then Sam would have to stop drinking it so much! But no! Noooooooo...Gracie is allergic to the one thing I can't get rid of.

Or can I?

I can be a decent detective when required and in this case, it didn't take long for me to realize two things:

1. Gracie spends most of her day in the bedroom.
2. There's a NEW RUG in the bedroom and it came from my 
Mother's Estate, where the house had a MILDEW problem 
and who-knows-what was still IN the RUG! AND AND AND...
we put it in the bedroom just around the same time 
Gracie broke out in the rash!

Now, to be clear, I DID have the rugs PROFESSIONALLY CLEANED AND SANITIZED before I brought them into the house, so I called the Rug Cleaners and talked to the owner and his son. They both told me there's NO WAY TO GET RID OF MOLD in a rug, even with "sanitizing."

So what are we SANITIZING the rug for, then???

I wanted to know about what chemicals they used and they were sort of tight lipped about that, but said it was nothing dangerous..ha ha..they also wanted to get the rug out of my house and have a look at it, then clean it all over again because it's only been a few months since they did the first cleaning.

The rug was moved to a holding area for a week, then they came and picked it up a few days ago. The bedroom floor squeaks and the rug muffled the sound. Now the sound is REALLY REALLY loud in the bedroom, but, at least, Gracie has a place to hang out where the friggen' dust mite population has been reduced.

I'm not certain, but I think Gracie is already getting a bit better. Either that or I just don't want to face giving her hyposensitization therapy (SHOTS) for the next YEAR...

Oh, and I have to bring her to see Dr. Larry again...ACK! I have to FACE Dr. LARRY! I said I LOVE HIM...OMG I'm dead meat.