Countercurse

I've been seeing an allergist because of my goblin curse, or at least the allergist's MA, and I've been on a dump truck's worth of antihistamines and a couple months ago I got leveled up to Xolair, which should have the effect of either clearing up my hives or sending me into anaphylactic shock. I went in for a follow-up yesterday!

DOC: Hello, I am Doctor Allergist. It's nice to meet you!
ME: Uh, yeah. You've been listed as my doctor for several months now.

So he checked to see if I still had lungs* and asked me how my skin was doing.

ME: It seems to be clearing up! I no longer have the urge to tear off my skin all the time! Also I ate something with pineapple in it and I didn't turn into a lizard even a little bit!
DOC: Great!
ME: Hey, your MA was kinda cagey on the whole nickel possibility. What's the story there? Is that the likely explanation?
DOC: Well, nickel's a bit hard to pin down, and ingestion of nickel even more so.
ME: Tell me about it. All the approved/do not eat food lists I've found online are different. I found one "approved list" that was just "meat and milk." I guess I'm on the Reverse Vegan diet? Or the Modified Autism Diet.
DOC: Yeah. It's a problem.
DOC: But the good news is that we use Xolair if somebody's got a suspected nickel allergy, too!
ME: Great!

So, yeah, it's possible that I am not cursed by goblins, but I'm gonna stick with that explanation. Because either way, the countercurse is the same!


*Probably smart. I'm pretty sure I had COVID back before it was cool, in January/February 2020.