February was a really strange month for me. Pollen season started at about the same time I had to begin doubling the dose of a new medication. The old mobile home next door was in the process of being taken apart so it could be removed. Things got a bit surreal for most of this month.
New medication
Double dosage starts today
Watch me float away
February 5, 2016
Way too windy out
Pollen count too high this week
I am struggling
February 15, 2016
So many things I want to work on today
So many pollen particles in the air
I’ll end up asleep
Every month, I gather up the health-related haiku I wrote on Twitter and put it into a blog post. It becomes a “snapshot” of what my health was like. If I’m going to complain about my health, I may as well find a creative way to express it.
December is not my favorite month of the year. It’s cold (even here in California). It’s filled with a whole lot of extra errands and expenses due to Christmas. It’s the month where I cannot escape holiday related allergens – even at the grocery store.
November of 2015 was filled with too many things that drained my energy. I was fighting off a cold, and that made everything harder.
I was physically overwhelmed. My body decided to react – badly – to allergens hidden in things that I though were safe. A coconut allergy appeared out of nowhere, and I had to find soap that was safe. (Grandma’s Pure Soap is coconut free.)
October was a busy, and difficult, month. I was fighting allergies from fall pollen season, the cigarette smoke from my neighbor’s yard, and a cold. It was overwhelming both physically and emotionally.
September was yet another month were my allergies were horrible due to heat, humidity, and high pollen. Ragweed season raged on. Considering how sick I was, and how many allergy medications I was on, I’m amazed that I got anything done at all.
August was overwhelming physically, emotionally, and financially. Some of this was my own fault, and the rest was unavoidable. I was in fear of what the upcoming ragweed season would do to me, so I really pushed myself to do things before my allergies got horrible, again, for an indeterminate amount of time.
Anyone who knows me well is aware that I suffer from a wide variety of allergies. I have a tendency to try and put my suffering into a poem. I wrote this poem on a Tumblr blog that no longer exists.
I read “Vicious Cycle” on episode 067 of Words of Jen.
Oh, humidity!
Go back from whence you came
Take this sinus pain
July 24, 2015
