Today’s pollen count is 8.6. Anything 7 or above makes me sick
My wonderful husband brought home not one, but two, Kleenex boxes for me.
That’s what love looks like.
Category: Spring Pollen Season 2017
Spring Pollen Season – Day Twenty-One
Today, the pollen count is 7.7. Yesterday was 7.3.
Things are getting worse and there is no end in sight.
My husband wants to know what he can do to help me feel better. If there was something, I’d be more than happy to tell him what it is and let him do that for me.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Twenty
Twenty days of my life – destroyed by allergies
I slept all day again. Finally got out of bed and am somewhat dazed.
It feels something like what “healthy” people feel when they have a really bad cold. A head full of clouds and heavy lungs.
I’m unfocused and have to figure out how I’m going to manage to write the work that is due tomorrow.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Nineteen
The pollen count is a dangerous 9.4. I figure people who have no allergies to pollen are probably feeling this one.
Earlier this pollen season, I switched over and became nocturnal – for self preservation. I can get some work done in the wee hours of the morning before the sun comes up and then sleep through the thickest part of the pollen that spews by day.
Everything hurts.
As I write this, I’m hoping to gather enough energy so I can take a shower.
Spring Pollen Season 2017 – Day Eighteen
Yesterday, for no good reason, I decided to go outside.
There are times when I just want to pretend I’m “normal” – and can go outside for a little while and do simple things like everyone else.
My husband and I went for a little walk to a nearby restaurant that has a PokéStop – which we have done several times before.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Seventeen
My eyes are itching and I’m wheezing.
Too overloaded with pollen to think clearly.
My neighbors just had a screaming fight outside for all to hear, which typically would set off my PTSD.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Sixteen
I am not ok.
The cumulative effect of being exposed to too much pollen, for so many days, is taking its toll.
We have lived through 59 days in 2017 – and 16 of mine have been utterly ruined due to bad allergies that I can’t do much of anything about.
Some of the other days were very difficult due to my rheumatoid arthritis or fibromyalgia, or accidental allergen exposure.
This body was not meant to live on this planet.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Fifteen
I can’t stop blowing my nose. I need my allergies to calm down for a little while so I can take a shower.
Ever tried taking a shower when your nose won’t stop running? I wouldn’t recommend it.
This is going to be yet another day on Benadryl, and there isn’t anything I can do about it.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Fourteen
When the pollen count is over 7, I am sick.
When it is over 8, I am in a ton of pain.
I ventured out into the 8.2 pollen count of a day so I could go to acupuncture. It helps with pain and with getting my body to cope with allergies (for lack of a better description).
I take a good nap at acupuncture, come home somewhat better than I was before – and then crash into sleep again a few hours later.
Haven’t managed to get any work done today at all.
Spring Pollen Season – Another Brief Reprieve!
The pollen count today is 6.1, which wouldn’t usually cause me any problems on its own.
The problem is that my body is so overloaded from the high amount of pollen that has been in the air for the past 13 days that I’m really sick today.
Continue Reading “Spring Pollen Season – Another Brief Reprieve!”