"LPR is caused by gaseous reflux. Little droplets that contain acid, bile, and most importantly, the stomach enzyme pepsin. They spread in your airways during inhaling and exhaling. That is why LPR is sometimes called airway reflux or respiratory reflux." Basically,you get pepsin in your airways,where it does it's normal job,digesting,only it's digesting your airways! You can read about LPR Reflus disease HERE.
The symptoms I have had: persistent cough,trouble breathing,trouble swallowing, choking episodes,constant throat clearing,hoarse voice,post nasal drip,the feeling of a lump in your throat,all scream LPR reflux.
I had to have a barium swallow test today to make sure my problem isn't something else. In the meantime the doctor has put me on medication,which is pretty much just heartburn medication. I wouldn't even worry about taking anything,because as far as the symptoms go,I can live with the effects. The problem is, when left untreated for a long period of time LPR can turn into cancer,because of the constant irritation of delicate mucus membranes that aren't made to handle that kind of abuse. It seems that the best thing I can do is lose weight to limit the pressure that causes the reflux. In the meantime I am not supposed to eat spicy foods, onions,tomatoes,or chocolate! That's most of my diet! I already don't eat animals. Leave me something!
So, getting back to the story of the day Ivy and I went to the flea market:It took us a while to get to the town where the Toys R Us was,and some miles through the country. So as we passed we stopped at some yard sales. I didn't find much at those either. I did find this.
This little Cabbage Patch tricycle is really cute.
It has the long handle so the child can push the doll along on the tricycle.
This vintage CP toy was sitting outside in the rain getting it's decals wet.
So I needed to rescue it. I also had to take the wet price sticker off the front decal before it dried on there and ruined the decal.
It was made in 1985. It's a doll version of the almost identical child's Big Wheel style Cabbage Patch tricycle that was sold the same year.
I probably won't keep it, but it's fun to play with for a while.
It's being enjoyed by this girl I recently couldn't pass up at my favourite Goodwill.
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| She's just so cute! |
I don't have many Cabbage Patch dolls,in fact she's only my second stuffed one. I have a couple of the large vinyl ones and a BUNCH of the mini versions of the regular ones.My other stuffed one is the standard yarn hair version, and you might have seen her HERE.
This girl is marked Play Along 2004.
She has the 'cornsilk hair',in platinum with pink bits.
Once we had finally made it to Toys R Us there wasn't a lot to be found.I passed up a very pretty wrestling doll,which isn't my sort of thing, but she was pretty,and she was somewhat articulated. We went to another Toys R Us a day or two later and I caved. We'll see her and all my Toys R Us buys in a later post.
When we left Toys R Us we went in search of a place to eat. On the way we stopped a couple of other places. Finally we decided on either Taco Bell or Little Ceasar's cheesey bread,so we headed off to find one or the other. During the search we drove past a thrift store. It wasn't a national chain like Goodwill or Salvation Army. It was just a local charity shop. I decided to double back.(I hadn't found either food place anyway and I was running out of town.) Of course, Ivy threw a fit,because she hates thrift stores. I said it was somewhere we should stop because it was a new town and you never know what you're going to find in a thrift store. When I went in it proved how right I was. They had an extra long counter which ran almost half the length of the store. Behind it the wall was lined with vintage dolls. Most of them were Miss Revlon types,but there were several Tiffany Taylor dolls,and right in the middle there was a Tessie Talk like my favourite of the three I have. (You can see my Tessies HERE.)Unfortunately Tessie was way over priced,so I left her there and went back to the toy section, not daring to ask the price of anything else.
I found a cute Goodnight Starlight Mooshka doll. She was very clean and mint,but also unpriced. I was afraid they'd have put some ridiculous price on her, but I took her up front to see anyway. She turned out to be really cheap, so I dared to ask how much some of the other vintage dolls were, Typically, some of the other dolls were priced less than they were worth. There was also a display case on the wall near the entrance that was also full of vintage dolls.I ended up with two.
One doll I bought was this girl.
She's a Dollikin by Uneeda. You may have seen the Dollikin I posted a while back HERE.
She's about 19" tall.
Dollikins this size were made from 1958 to 1962. There were several other sizes made well into the 70's though.
Dollikins are super articulated.
She is jointed at the neck,shoulders,elbows,wrists,waist,hips, knees,and ankles.
This girl was cheap,but then she does have a problem,which you might have seen above. She's missing her right hand.
It's not like Dollikin parts aren't around though,so she can be fixed.
Otherwise she's in nice condition except for a little looseness in her left hand.
She has earrings. She also has red flowers in her hair.Does anybody know if they are original?
We'll see the other doll I got that day tomorrow.
