Pollen @ MindSay 
spring
Three different medical professionals said, in so many words: "That's weird." I was dosed with steroids and advised to return next year. But no one had a clue what was messing with my face.
I did not return (longtime readers know of my deep abiding affection for seeing a medical professional. gak) but instead armed my bod with Claritin last spring and thus staved off the worst of the Gecko Face reaction. I scared no one, last March. Yay, me. Neither did I have to play with whatever steroid treatment pack they gave me in 2006.
This year (finally) I have been tracking pollen and such in the area. And this morning, we have had a return of the puffy eyes in a much more noted way. I have for about a week or so been experiencing the general symptoms of my now-annual episode, but today it was just so much fun to wake up at half past one and have difficulty opening my eyes.
Pine and Cypress have been consistently high in their pollen counts. VERY high in their pollen counts. However, conventional wisdom and all that says that allergic reactions to these generally confine themselves to respiratory problems. Nasal and breathing. Not angioedemic reactions.
Whatever it is, for me, is airborne. If it's pine, I don't know where the pine is. But it must have some seriously studly pollen.
The Claritin continues to work effectively enough that I don't scare small children with my face, so I shall continue in its use into April. And I guess taking walks in the spring sunshine is out again 'til my face quits trying to explode.
Alas.
Eileen Rose lived one street over and I would cut through the Cabot’s backyard to get to Eileens. The Cabots lived in a Georgian brick colonial right across from us and everyone had long long yards … so for a seven year old it was quite a trek.
Eileen was the first girl I knew who had asthma, like I had, only hers was worse and she had to carry a nebulizer all the time. She wasn’t to get “excited” and I envied the eggshell walking her family did due to her fragile condition. Eileen was also the first person I slept over with other than cousins. And she had a Harriet Hubbard doll which I REALLY coveted. Eileen also had siblings that perfectly mirrored my own family constellation. Carol and then Jordon and then Eileen. As a young adult Eileen went to Julliard (voice) and sadly died young from breast cancer.
Why am I thinking of Eileen today? Because Mondays Wednesday or Fridays are shot days. Shots for my many allergies. Cat dander, dust mites, grasses trees and many other pollens. The only thing that doesn’t get to me yet is mold and I am keeping my fingers crossed. I have been getting these shots for several years. First because my winter sinus infections began to be spring winter and fall infections. And I got great relief from the shots and also the nasal irrigations my ENT told me about. And then I decided to get a cat which is a super huge taboo for allergy sufferers but I would rather have post nasal drip while I play with my cat than have a clear URT and no fur ball to love up.
The Eileen/asthsma/allergy thoughts lead somehow to freshly made popovers and then to beignets and then to café au lait which of course led to tall silver coffee pots in a new Orleans bed and breakfast we visited. And then of course to the Vietnamese coffee filters I got on ebay . so maybe tomorrow after I am finished with clients I will make beignets? They will go well with the cherry pie I baked last night.
Oh and my calla lilies are in bloom. Arlene gave them to me when she visited last summer and I love having a bit of her world in my yard. Love and friendship are grand.
That's right. I said it. Pollen sucks. This is why I hate spring. Sure the tulips look great and nice to see the flowers and junk. But I hate walking outside and seeing my orange car be shades of yellow. I hate having to tell Av not to touch the car because I know shortly thereafter his pollen covered fingers will be in his mouth and hair. I hate coughing all the time, being congested, and having my eyes itch and water after just a few minutes outdoors that I think to myself that I'd rather be chopping onions.
And yes, I take medication - prescriptions - year round in fact. A lovely drug cocktail that works most of the time, except when the pollen count through the frigging roof every day! That is why I like Fall and Winter so much. Summer is OK - but just too hot.
So damn you pollen! I shake my fist at you - you yellow scrooge of humanity!
I woke up this morning and felt a chill in the air. I looked outside and it was dark and dreary looking.
And I said let it rain, let it rain and wash all this pollen out. Well on my way to work this morning it
starting raining. We do need more rain in our part of town. There is still green stuff (pollen) on the ground.
What am I wishing for today? Some more rain of course.
Welps, after 10 yrs of living in Atlanta area, my sinus's have tilted! The last "cold" I had wasn't a cold after all... WHOA. Allergies, yay... the other day the pollen count was 2600!! I have discovered claritin D. It does help alleviate, but completely remove all symptoms... you know that commercial where the cartoon girls head swells...it really feels like that, LOL!!!
Anyhow, things are settling back into a routine after that horrendous week of glitches. Wasnt that intense? Phew.. it sure was, but God is so good, and sometimes it seems that thru those times where all hell is breaking loose that is when the BEST things do happen.
I am not saying that it is particularly enjoyable to go through ugliness, but there is a process that occurs when you do go through challenges, note that I said, "go through" ..not get stuck, not drown, not sink, but make it through to the other side... and this process really does make a person bigger then they were before.
I had prayed a couple of weeks ago for God to enlarge my capacity. Now that I am on the other side of the week, I see how my capacity was indeed enlarged. If I knew what was going to occur I may not have asked Him to do that, haha!
Now, things are not all rosey and peachy still, I am still mopping up areas from the whole fall out, but incredibly I have a peace about each thing that happened last week... and I am actually looking forward to see where this next phase of my adventure is taking me...and how its going to meet and fulfill all my dreams and goals.
It's just being done in a manner far different than my 'game' plan, LOL!
Hang on, cause here we go!!
Love and Laughter,
Dawn
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