Well, that was...something

[rolanni]

And so...I'm slightly (very slightly) allergic to...dogs...and some few weedy things...and a couple varieties of mold, but, really, who isn't? I am not, mind you, sensitive enough to any of these things that the doctor was willing to use the word "allergic," preferring "irritant." While this is Good News, it leaves open to wonder Just What Exactly Is Going On. Sigh. Nose drops for four weeks, and regroup. If no better, then I get to have my sinuses x-rayed. Somehow, this proposition fails to fill me with joy...

This was my very first time having an allergy test, which made me a minor celebrity with staff, and I must say that I have a whole new appreciation for the Death of A Thousand Cuts. Happily for me, I had taken along blink by Malcolm Gladwell, which is utterly absorbing. I can't wait to get back to it.

In other news, we had a thunderstorm this evening; the sun is out now, and the sky as blue as if it had never rained...

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[6-penny.livejournal.com]

If you are responding to something local/east coast, going out to Denver may confirm it. Years ago I helped friends move west in August. We got past the Penn. border the first day, i was up in the small hours with my sinuses pouring _ the summers accumulation of congestion! The rest of the trip I had more energy than I had had since I was a kid, the altitude in the Rockies had my puffing a bit, but otherwise it was a revelation. Flying back east, the plane touched down in Pittsburgh, they opened the doors (The old days when one went down a ladder to deplane) and my sinuses clamped down instantly.