“A woman your age …” said the allergist.

She continued, but I wasn’t listening. I couldn’t. I was struck dumb by those words. Surely, she was talking to someone else in the room? Someone old. Not chic, well-groomed, hair-dyed, cool, with-it me?

But since nobody else was in the room, she definitely was talking to me! Yikes, ouch, and oy vey! Read more