Bit of Ivory

Let me get something perfectly clear before I go on with this post: I LOVE spring. It’s my absolute favorite season. I love being able to shed coats and sweaters and venture out in short sleeves and sandals. It’s lovely. I love the flowers, I love the trees blooming, I love the grass getting green– it’s all wonderful!

That being said, there is one thing about spring that I absolutely hate: allergies. Stupid pollen. Two weeks ago, just as it was starting to get really warm, I started sneezing. I’ve been sneezing ever since. I’ve taken Benadryl. Doesn’t work. I dug up my prescription of Allegra from last year. It helps a little, but not enough. I have to use eye drops, because nothing I take touches my itching eyes, which are compounded bu the fact that I wear gas-permeable contacts. I’d like to try Zyrtec, which is about the only prescription allergy medicene I haven’t tried since they took Seldane off the market (I LOVED that stuff, it actually worked), but I’ve had to switch doctors since I turned 21, and I don’t think my new one will just prescribe me anything without having an appointment, which I can’t get because I’m still in school.

So allergies suck. Which leads me to today. I was in a hurry to leave this morning, and I neglected to take my Allegra. So I sneezed all through choir rehersal, and at the reference desk at the library, and on the way home. So tonight I had a bridal shower, but my allergies had basically died down by then, so I didn’t bother taking anything. I was very stupid. Because when I got to the house where the shower was, the hostess had not only a dog, but a cat as well. Oh, did I forget to mention? I’m allergic to dogs and cats, too. So I was basically miserable the whole time. I came home and took an Allegra straight away. I still haven’t fully recovered. There was good food at the shower, though.

Okay, rant over. Luckily, I don’t do that very often. But these allergies are driving me CRAZY!!!