I have not yet recovered from yesterday’s 10.3. Today’s 9.5 is technically better, but I sure don’t feel any better. Anything over 7 causes me a lot of harm.
Went outside to get groceries. Managed to play Pokémon GO for about fifteen minutes.
Tag: Spring pollen season
Spring Pollen Season – Day Thirty-Three
The air is so full of pollen now that it is literally dangerous for me.
Started taking Benadryl at 6 am – then slept.
Husband woke me up to take more drugs.
SO MUCH PAIN.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Thirty-Two
Today’s pollen count is 9.4, which feels the same as yesterday’s 9.5.
I am still mostly nocturnal, in a desperate attempt to avoid breathing in the pollen that spews by day.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Thirty-One
The pollen count today is 9.5, which is only a teeny tiny bit better than yesterday’s 9.8. I guess. I mean, I’m not experiencing any noticeable benefit.
I remain nocturnal, trying to get work done before the sun comes up and the plants spew pollen into the air – again.
Everything hurts. I’m at the point now where this pollen season has been going on for so long that it’s beginning to feel like my new “normal”. This is a depressing observation.
It is literally too dangerous for me to go outside.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Thirty
Question for anyone reading this. Have you ever been sick for 30 days/ an entire month? I figure this is not very common, even among people with allergies.
The instant the sun came up I started sneezing, having a runny nose, having a severely unhappy digestive system, and bad joint pain.
The cumulative effects of the pollen – for the past month – are becoming devastating.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Twenty-Nine
The pollen count today is 9.7. It is officially considered to be a high amount of pollen – even for people who do not have any pollen allergies.
All I can do is sleep.
Now, I get to make a choice. Sleep and rest more in the hopes of being in less pain – or push myself to get work done so we can pay bills.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Twenty-Eight
Once again, I worked through the night and went to sleep when the sun came up and my eyes started itching.
Today’s 9.3 isn’t noticeably better than yesterday’s 9.4.
I slept for twelve hours straight and would have slept more if my husband hadn’t woken me up for dinner.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Twenty-Seven
The pollen count is 9.4, and everything hurts.
Too much Benadryl for too many days and things are getting weird.
The hallucinations have started – this time, it’s small, perfectly round, “bugs” that move like they are in a video game.
I know they aren’t real.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Twenty-Six
Yesterday, I went outside to get groceries. My Epi-Pen was going to expire in April, and I was able to get the much less expensive CVS version instead.
My husband and I played Pokémon GO in the short distance between the grocery store, the CVS, and a restaurant we picked up food from.
This was enough to knock me out for the day.
Spring Pollen Season – Day Twenty-Five
I’ve been waking up dehydrated for days in a row. It could be due to the allergy medications I’m taking (more often than when it is not Spring Pollen Season). Or, it might be due to frequent sneezing/coughing stuff out of my throat and lungs/extra histamine my body is producing from the pollen.
I didn’t get enough sleep.
My eyes are itching, again, and that’s starting to be my “new normal.”