I have horrible allergies, which get noticeably worse when the pollen is too high for my body to tolerate. This year, Spring Pollen season started in late January. Here are some notes that I wrote on social media while suffering.
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I have a multitude of food allergies. This requires me to spend time doing research before consuming anything. Things get more complicated when something that used to be safe changes some ingredients, or I randomly start having an allergic reaction to things that didn’t cause me problems before.
This leads to unwanted research adventures as I try to figure out what went wrong. I posted my most recent experience with this problem on social media and added in some more details here.
The pollen count has been nice and low for the past week. The highest it got was 7.1, and the lowest was a glorious 2.3. I believe this means that I have survived this year’s Spring Pollen Season.
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Today, the pollen count was 7.7. It is just a little bit higher than yesterday’s pollen count. Somehow, I have unintentionally managed to force myself to be productive and get paid writing work done even while I’m sick and experiencing “brain fog”.
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Today, the pollen count was 7.6. It is going up, again. I’m tired of writing about it, and flat out exhausted from all the extra allergens that have been in the air for far too long.
This may be the pollen season that never ends. I’m in California, so there is no chance of winter snow coming to freeze the air and kill all the plants. The air here is fairly dry, which means there’s hardly any mold to worry about. So, that’s one allergen I don’t have to fight with.
I woke up sick today, again, and feeling anemic. I am tired, tired, tired.
We are supposed to get some cooler weather over the weekend. I’m hoping that will be enough to end this horrifically long pollen season.
Today, the pollen count was 7.4. I am more than ready for Spring Pollen Season 2017 to be over. As predicted, I was sick today because of the allergens I got exposed to yesterday. It is not possible to stay indoors for the seventy-some days that this pollen season has lasted.
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Today, the pollen count is 7.3. This is not good for me. I went outside anyway because I needed to go shopping for clothes. There is no way to know for certain how high the pollen count will be tomorrow (or in the next few days). So, I took a chance on the 7.3 day.
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I was still awake in the wee hours of the morning, so I checked the pollen count for today. I was pretty tired, but I swear it told me that the pollen count would be 6.0 today. The five day forecast indicated that the pollen would be lower than 7.0 for five days straight. I went to sleep feeling optimistic.
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The pollen count was 7.3 today. I’m not itching, but I am blowing my nose a lot more than typical. When will this pollen season end? Nobody knows.
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Today, the pollen count was 8. My original plan for today was to go outside and buy some clothes. I hate shopping, and tend to hold off doing it until I’ve literally worn holes in items and need to replace them. Walking around the store, and trying on a bunch of clothing until something fits, takes more energy for me than it does for healthy people.
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