I'm in Overland Park right now on business. Why does my throat BURN

[xultar]

when ever I come here! MAN! Last night it was like some one had taken a flame thrower to the back of my throat.

Is it the pollen?

[evlbstrd]

1. Nah.

It's the suburbs.

[atommom]

2. I dunno. Johnson County mind control fumes?

Could be the pollen ... Kansas is notoriously bad for people with allergies.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Well first of all, welcome!

It's probably allergies. The pollen count here is high in the spring. What are you allergic to?

[xultar]

5. I guess everything growing in OP. Last week I was here with a burning

throat and this week too.

Oh and may I say I love OP. I'd consider moving here.

[Jon8503]

4. More than likely Radical Right Wing Pollen N/T.

[xultar]

6. I'd say that you'd be right but I see more anti -bush and pro kerry

stickers here than I've ever seen in Atlanta.

[brystheguy]

8. Seriously? More pro-Kerry than Bush?

All I see are those damn W04 stickers. Are you at a librarians conference or something? That would explain the stickers!

[atommom]

7. Tree pollen is VERY high here right now. That could be it!

Hope you enjoy being in OP, anyway! :hi:

[Mabus]

9. The movies "The Body Snatchers" & "Soylent Green" come to mind

I dunno, maybe it is just me, but some of the KC suburbs are a little scary. I go there and think, these people (the ones with the rapture or Bush stickers) aren't really Kansans. Kansans are down-to-earth people who would give you the shirt off their back as quickly as they would give you the time of day. Too many suburbanites are like the pod people from "The Body Snatchers", they look human enough but they vote Republican too much to actually be human. It's like an episode of the "Twilight Zone", real Kansans (Democratic party members) are being replaced with GOP pods as part of an alien-GOP takeover plot. The real people? They're being turned into "Soylent Green".

Anyway, I think you were being affected by the subtle smell of Soylent Green being processed. Run! Run and tell the rest of the country before it is too late!

Okay, so I really don't know what is affecting your throat. I would guess it is seasonal (like pollen) and regional. I know that the first year I lived in Lawrence I broke out in a weird rash on my arms in the spring. It disappeared overnight when I went back to see my folks in Oklahoma on spring break and it returned shortly after I got back to Kansas. For over ten years I broke out every spring for a few weeks. It didn't matter what part of Lawrence I lived in. Over the years I must have built up a tolerance to it (whatever it is) because I haven't had any problems in close to ten years.

It isn't just me either. My brothers had the same problem. Nor was it, as suggested by our parents, an allegeric reaction to text book ink. They blamed our rash on our finally having to 'crack the books' to stay on top at college. My parents thought they were funny. So did I, I just didn't let on.

[Slyder]

10. OP native

It's the tree pollen, which is at Biblical proportions at the moment. My whole head is a swollen mess at the moment. And I am on two allergy drugs.