"We had noticed that when Scott would come in I would start feeling worse and worse. But it was only last year that the couple realised they had become unable to physically share their life together. "There were times three and four years ago, before we got the diagnosis, that if I was extra close to my wife, specifically if my face was close to Johanna's face, she would cough," says Scott. Even then she struggled with unusual rashes, irritable bowel syndrome and migraines, but these ailments became much worse after the couple married. She worked as a teacher and the couple used to love hiking together. The symptoms and severity of the disease can vary from patient to patient, but it makes Johanna allergic to virtually everything and can trigger life-threatening anaphylactic shock.īefore she married her husband Scott in 2013 Johanna did not expect her condition to become so severe. She has a severe form of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) in which the cells that are meant to protect her from outside threats mutate and start attacking her body instead.
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Johanna lives in an attic room all by herself with sealed windows and doors, and air filters to purify the air. We can't be in the room together, because I'm allergic to him, but he will be three floors below me in a room on his laptop and I will be on mine and we'll watch the show at the same time and then text about it as we're watching it," says Johanna. "Scott and I will try to watch a show together. Johanna and Scott Watkins's date nights are very different from other couples. She suffers from Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, a rare disorder of the immune system, which means she is allergic to almost everything, including her husband's scent. T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house.Twenty-nine-year-old Johanna Watkins from Minnesota cannot kiss her husband Scott, or even spend time in the same room as him. Just for a handful of silver he left us.ġ0. It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day.ĩ. Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary.Ĩ. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.ħ. Every moment lightly shaken ran itself in golden sands.Ħ. A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.Ĥ.
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee.ģ. With the cows in their stalls and the sheep in their fold.Ģ. Scansion: the process of scanning a poem for its metrical form.ģ) see where the pattern varies, and try to explain whyĭirections: Mark the accents and foot divisions in the following Note that a poet can choose to vary a foot within a metric line, by dropping an unaccented syllable, substituting for a different foot, etc. In-ter-vene, in the dark anapest dah-dah-DEE ˘ = breve, which means an unstressed syllable
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You’ll still need to label all the syllables, divide the feet of the lines, and identify the meter of each line.įoot = one accented syllable, plus 1 or 2 unaccented syllables It’ll be the same format as the practice, only a different order. The quiz on scansion will be next week sometime (I’ll figure out the date near the end of this week). If you want any additional help regarding scansion (especially for those absent), come see me during my planning block (4th period) or immediately after school.
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