Sneezing.
Coughing.
Runny nose.
Watery eyes.
Achoo!
Bless you.
Repeat.
ARGH!
It seems my annual bout with allergies has been continual this year. After my horrendous non-COVID sicky-ness, I got hit with the a case of The Blossoms.TM Apple blossoms don’t usually bother me, but for some reason, this year, they did. Then the pear blossoms sprang up, which meant I thought my Blossom Bout was over…
Except that I forgot to account for the cherries. And cherry blossoms ALWAYS get me.
So from approximately the beginning of March through the middle of May, I was the reigning queen of allergies.
And then the cottonwoods started snowing.
Like, literally, the view out the window of the kindergarten I’ve been working in (we’re off, finally — hooray!) looked like snow. Coming down, floating in the air, accumulating on the ground. Snow.
6-yr-old (on a 60 degree day in May): Mrs F, is it snowing outside?
Me: No, the trees are shedding their fur.
(I also tell them other absurd things. LIke, that the penguins who live in my refrigerator will escape if I leave the door open. They know fact from fiction. So don’t get your panties in a twist about trees not having fur. Trees have plenty of fur when squirrels are in residence.)
And then there are the lilies. Lovely, but definitely harbingers of a head cold.
And grass.
So: I’m allergic to 37 kinds of pollen the outdoors.
I’m also allergic to 5:00am, but I’ve built up a tolerance to my morning immunity through the liberal application of coffee to my insides.
And I’m allergic to bills.
No matter how many I pay off, they seem to continue to accumulate. Mostly they just leave a bad taste in my mouth, but occasionally they give me headaches. And they give my bank account a rash. I wonder, though, if I could get a doctor’s note about my allergy. Perhaps I could get a medical exemption from paying bills?
I’m allergic to dust.
So I don’t do the cleaning. You start cleaning up dusty stuff and it wafts up in your nose, and “ACHOO!”, the next thing you know, you’ve scared the houseplants out of their pots.
So pretty much, I just don’t do the cleaning.
(This includes avoidance of laundry and dish-washing, on principle.)
Because I’m allergic.
I’m f’real allergic to oatmeal1, even though I use it to bake with. And sulfa-based medications.2
I’m allergic to the pastel dyes they use in Easter M&Ms.
And to latex. And to nonoxynol-9. Which, in combination, was pain in the ass vagina to learn.
Oh! And I’m allergic to technology.
But NOT, thankfully, to relaxation.
So my summertime cure from ALL THE ALLERGIES is going to be: Unplug & Unwind.
Inside.
😉
How about you?
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Wicked Wednesday, after ten years, is shutting down. The meme creator has left participants a list of 25 possibilities to use between now and the end of 2022, when WW will officially end.
Given my current/ongoing blightful sneeze-fest, I thought that joining in with ‘allergies’ this week was apt.
1This, according to my mother, who claims I had “terrible reactions” to the stuff when I was a child.
2Bactrum. Having experienced my first UTI at the age of 9, my reaction — full-body hives — on top of already feeling like hell was a helluva thing.
My sympathies for your suffering so many allergies & sensitivities. I happen to be one of those who is unaffected by all of it, but I feel for those who are. I can’t imagine living a daily life having to be on high alert for even a hint of life-threatening peanuts, soy, wheat, etc. I wonder why some folks are so affected while others are not. . .
My environmental sensitivities are typically more manageable — for some reason, however, they are going haywire this year.
It is odd how some of us react so terribly to things while others don’t… If it has to do with genetics, all I can say is that there are worse things to inherit. 😱
I didn’t used to be allergic to anything but, oh, about the time I hit 50, I could tell it was getting close to spring – and didn’t have to look at a calendar – because of the bouts of sneezing and post-nasal drip I was now suffering. All that pollen stops blowing around and I was fine. Vacuumed one day and… sneezing my ass off. Didn’t do it myself the next day and I’m fine but the day after?
Shit. One day, I sneezed so hard that I wound up on the floor and from the chair I was sitting in.
Let’s see… I’m allergic to bullshit and stupid people; that makes my butt itch like crazy but, eh, whatcha gonna do? Still, I hope you can find some relief…
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Ha! Bullshit — yep, that’s a significant allergy. 😉
Gosh, I am glad to hear I’m not the only one suffering from so many allergies, and this year, it’s worst than the past 5 years combined. Sneezing, itchy eyes. Grrrr
And then there are the foods – I can’t eat too much fruit, because my insides don’t like it. And some medicines I have to have a specific brand, because others make me sick. And then I recognize the vaginanotbeinghappy thing!
~ Marie xox
It does seem worse this year. I think that I’m also dealing with a bit of immune-overdrive because I’ve been working with kids for 6 months and they are little germ factories.
Luckily, my food issues are more “sensitivities” than “allergies” — I have to be careful what I eat and don’t always react well, but at least it’s not SERIOUS. I feel for people who have anaphylactic reactions; that must be scary.