Well, spring is here, and I’m paying for it. Pollen is in the air, and I’m forced to sit here with a nose as clogged up as my sinuses. Last night, I took some generic Benadryl, hoping it would knock me out like it usually does, but it seems that’s now not the case, and I had to lay awake with that groggy feeling, breathing through my mouth, meanwhile having my throat dried out.
This morning I feel even worse. So I say loudly:
Fuck allergies.
God, are you me? Last night I also took generic Benadryl, which kept me up rather than put me to sleep the way it did the previous night. My Allegra also appears to have stopped working.
I feel extraordinarily ladylike when I’m standing in the shower hocking up all the crap that’s dripped into the back of my throat during the night.
Benadryl hypes me up, too! Everyone always tells me, “Oh, it makes me pass out like the dead.” Me? Not so much.
But, allow me to join in on this allergy rant: you would think growing up in a farming community with the worst air in the country (maybe second, I don’t recall) would make me at least used to my allergies. Once again, not so much; I’ve been sneezing non-stop for about a month now. Right now I believe they are harvesting some kind of nut- the kind where they shake the trees repeatedly- which sends a big, brown cloud over the city. On the upside, it’s not as bad as when they harvest/spray the cotton. Oh, it’s also not as bad as when that super-dairy burned down. The entire city had a black cloud over it and smelled like a BBQ gone awry. I’m off topic, but the point is that all of this makes me sneezy and clogged up.
SCREW YOU ALLERGIES!!!
All of you ought to give generic Claritin a try, and take some Sudafed while you’re at it. The Loratadine I take is antihistamine alone, but it’s 24 hour. If I feel congested, I take some Sudafed. I usually take a dose of Sudafed before bed anyway, so I don’t develop an infection overnight which I have been known to do due to congestion.
I’m with ya.
And just as I’m starting to get over the cold I’ve been suffering with for the last week and a half, all of a sudden I go outside to find my car covered in sickly yellowy shit (fucking pollen!) There are a lot of old trees on my street, and so my entire neighborhood is covered in it.
Then to top it off, we get drizzly rain – NOT enough to wash the pollen away, just enough to make it damp and nasty and stick to everything (like the underside of my dog when I walked him).
And the pollen never used to bother me when I was younger, but in the last 10 years or so… ugh!
“And in breaking news, we bring you this special NBC News report. The buttocks of a Monstre were found by the side of the road, next to piles of discarded Kleenex. I’m getting word from the investigator on the scene – yes… yes, it would appear that a Monstre has, in fact, sneezed his ass off.”