Please, Please, No

Please, Please, No

I was down for the count yesterday—the damn sinuses again. The Benadryl I took to relieve the blinding pain early in the morning kept me glued to the bed all day until four o’clock this morning. I was worried I wouldn’t feel well enough today to drive up to L.A. with H.E.. In fact, this morning, the sinus pain was still there, lingering. I felt a little better after a shower, though, and infinitely better when I left the house for the drive.

I was in high spirits during the drive, not even panicking as I thought I would be while driving in L.A. traffic. I didn’t even have to take a single Tylenol caplet all day while I was out, I felt so great.

Then I got home, checked my e-mail, and settled down to watch The Sopranos as the cat sat close by, and gradually I felt that familiar stuffed-up feeling in my head again.

My family has always had cats and dogs around the house, sometimes even fish and hamsters. I felt really bad for my sister when she started developing cat allergies in her adulthood … but also relieved and almost smug because I didn’t develop the same allergies.

Now I’m dreading that I might be developing allergies to the cat after all.

Please let me be wrong. I’ll be vacuuming, dusting, and laundering like crazy tomorrow, hoping that solves my strange new allergy problem.

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4 thoughts on “Please, Please, No”

  1. My brother has been having similar problems where he seems to have developed an allergy this year that he never has had in the past. I’m sure it sucks!

  2. Drew, I feel your brother’s pain! Paula Poundstone joked on Bill Maher’s show some weeks ago that if people called it Extended Allergy Season instead of Global Warming, so many more people would take up the cause to save the earth — which kind of implies that this allergy thing is somehow related to climate change. That scares me.

  3. I seem to have bad seasons and no-so-bad seasons. This one seems bad, though not the worst. I still am not sure what all I’m allergic too.

    Hope yours clears up, and it’s not the cat. Could it be something like the dust from the litterbox collecting on it’s fur?

  4. I don’t know. I’m back to thinking it isn’t the cat. The allergies were bad on Saturday, but I’m fine now. The cat slept with me the entire night last night, curled up against my side, and I didn’t feel bad at all. So it must have been something else. Maybe something outside blowing in through my window that day.

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