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.
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.
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Sleeping…sleeping… sleeping
Everything hurts
I wish there was a cure for allergies.
Today, the pollen count is 8. This is not good for me.
I woke up with eye pain today, and have taken medication for it. This ruins my whole day. I’m never quite right after waking up with allergen induced eye pain.
My digestive tract, my kidneys, and probably my liver, are overloaded with pollen – and the histamine my body produces in response to allergen exposure. Every part of me is sore and tired.
The pollen count is 7.9 – which isn’t very different from yesterday’s 8.
I woke up with “allergy stomach.” If you don’t know what that means, consider yourself blessed.
I am so sick that our cockatiels have noticed and are being super cute and gentle with me today.
My husband cut my hair for me last night. Short hair is so much easier to wash than long hair is – especially when I am depleted from 11 days of too much pollen in the air.
The pollen count is 8 today.
I am so allergic that I can no longer focus on any work stuff
Struggling and exhausted …and soon to be full of medicine
My husband is well again and out catching the new Pokemon.
Once again, I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning, before the sun came up, and managed to get some work done. I am overloaded with pollen, and each day adds more. Pollen Season has a cumulative effect that lingers and doesn’t disappear at the end of the day.
Anything above 7 causes me harm. Today is 7.4, and I am miserable. It doesn’t help that I am sick in addition to being super allergic. My husband, however, seems to be improving.
I have decided to stick with the tactic of becoming nocturnal. In the wee hours of this morning, I managed to get a lot of work done. Then, the sun came up and the pollen made my eyes itch.
Then, I slept all day. (Ok, until mid-afternoon. Perhaps that isn’t all day.)
Today the pollen count is 6.6. It’s not a good number for me, but could be much worse. Anything that close to 7 makes me ill.
I have resorted to employing a tactic that worked reasonably well in previous pollen seasons. I’ve become nocturnal. The hope is that if I can sleep through the worst parts of day that has more pollen than I can handle – I’ll be ok.
The other half of the equation involves frantically trying to get work done in the wee hours of the morning, before I fall asleep.
The big rains from yesterday continued through this morning. It seems to have stopped for now. The plants, delighted by the excess water after the long drought, will start spewing pollen into the air very soon.
Right now, it is cold and grey outside. I am breathing reasonably well, but that will change if the sun activates the surrounding plant life. The pollen count listed above may turn out to be misleading.
