Hadda get the tax stuff organized.
And something’s bloomed that has my name and Jane’s on it. We’re dumber than dirt and can’t wake up. Being indoors with the air filters going full tilt while taking Theraflu night and day versions seems to be the only way to cope, but I’m not that smart today. I just want to go back to bed and lie there. My money is on the evergreens pollinating…we’ve had this weird weather, and for the first time and suddenly the temperature’s flirting with 70 degrees instead of 35 to 40, and it’s staying above freezing at night.
Glug. My eyes are watering so its hard to see what I’m doing. I tried Zyrtac yesterday and it gave me a very upset stomach. Benedryl and Sudafed in combo helped after that somewhat wore off, but today I’m trying Theraflu.
This too shall pass. Usually it’s a few days. If I weren’t on an antihistamine, I couldn’t breathe, I’d be coughing, and my ears would be so swollen I’d be half-deaf. As well as stupid. I hates allergies, I hatessss ’em.
I’m with you. Ugh, I really hate allergies.
I’m sitting here writing with my eyes watering a steady stream down my face. But at least the brain knows what project I’m on.
Gotta be cedar pollen. I’m stiff and sore, I suspect, not so much from the fall day before yesterday, but from the cedar. It’ll do that to you.
Ouch. Hates allergies, I’m holding my thumbs for the pollen season to be a short one!
BTW, I got one of those Oreck air filter thingies like you have and have it on my night stand blowing in my face. (Freaks the cats when the air filter zaps something, although I think they are almost at the conclusion that it’s all sound and fury signifying nothing.) I like the result so much I’m going to get a second one for my office when I can work it into the budget. Have you tried prescription nose sprays like Nasalide or that one that has the commercial with the bee with a Spanish accent? I was told the nose sprays sidestep the zonking effects of the systemic antihistamines.
Helps a bit, but once I can breathe I forget to use them and it’s just easier to stay with the Orecks blasting away, even if we can’t hear ourselves think. Breathing is good.
Gah, I can’t do Sudafed, but I hear ya. Pollen here has been fierce too. I’m still regularly battling fatigue, then there occasional bouts of allergies. Yuck. I haven’t had allergy / sinus this severe since I was that skinny teenager, way back when. I’m currently mostly OK, thank goodness, except for truly cattywampus sleeping habits. “Cattywampus?” Hmm, I’ve never tried to spell that one before. Never looked to see if there’s a “standard” spelling for it. (International speakers, that is a nonsense word you should get from context. No idea if it has any roots in anything real.)
Allergies are one of many arguments against the idea of ‘intelligent design’.
One might suggest that high intelligence and a truly depraved sense of humor are not mutually exclusive. Ooh! That could explain so many things…
When I was working at the University in Cedar City, UT., one of my co-workers said he’d moved there to get away from the pollens on the east coast. He said it was one of the most benign environments he’d ever visited (that is until he developed allergies to the local pollen).
I hates them too!! And I can’t get away from them since I work outside a lot with the forest service. This year has been particularly bad for everyone, with the warm winter we has here in the mountains this year. We’ve had our counts over 11 and in the 10’s for weeks –Arizona cypress and junipers AND manzanita going full tilt. They’re finally settling down just in time for the oaks to start dropping they’re leaves in preparation to putting on new growth AND more pollen along with the pinyin pines. Just shot me. I do Omnaris with sublingual drops, but about the only antihistamine that really works for me is chlorotrimeton — you can get it generic at most pharamcies. Never have a problem with droziness and if you have blood pressure issues or heart issues (like me) this won’t interact with that. The new ones like Claritan flat don’t work and all benadryl does is give me migraines.
Theraflu daytime and nightime versions are your friend. And if you can, but not with Theraflu, the old combo of 1-2 benedryl and 1-2 Sudafeds are helpful—one keeps you anti-allergenic and the other is a decongestant-wake-me-up, so it averages out. They used to sell that otc until the damned meth-heads got into the act and they removed Sudafed to the back of the pharmacy, while Benedryl decided to divorce it to stay in the front counters. I tell you, in allergy season I am very short-tempered with people whose bad behavior inconveniences the rest of the honest folk. Filing Intent comes to mind, but then, people in Bren’s world have been thinking about that a lot lately.
Ugh, allergies year round here. Cats and dust. Er yeah, I’m sooo stuck- Cat keeps me sane, and of course you can’t dust without triggering the allergies, but if I don’t dust, it just starts breeding like dustbunnies. This time of year just for added fun, the rain backs off and everything starts puking out pollen, then the rain starts in and mold and mildew take off.
Yep. Send cat under sofa for dustbunnies. A really, really good filter is a good thing.
I’ve started sneezing but no more than that (so far!). But my local pollen seems to be tame compared to the US variety. And the word is ‘catawumpus’, BlueCatShip 🙂 . (Total muddle, I think it means.)
As a tonic for the tax time blues, here is a short video of a cat deep in existentialist ennui. Since we here are such confirmed cat people (including me), I thought you’d enjoy Henri the French cat’s complaint.
Sartre and Proust n’ont rien sur ce chat pensif.