Trees having sex

[pegkerr]

How can it be that the local pollen count is low, when my lungs feel like they're trying to turn themselves inside out and escape through my nostrils?

Fiona is really suffering, too.

Edited to add: I unpacked my Albuterol inhaler for the first time since last year and tried a couple of hits. Now my allergies are still there, but I feel as jangly as if I had a million cups a coffee. NOT AN IMPROVEMENT.

God, I wish I could just go home since I feel so awful, but it's not an option today. And if I remember from last year, I can expect to feel like my lungs are coated on the inside with a thin coat of rubber cement for, oh, the next month or two. Gah.

Comments

[eeyorerin]

I dunno. I looked up your city at Pollen.com and got counts in the high range, so maybe people just aren't reporting an accurate count.

I sympathize; while I was sleeping, someone apparently took my eyeballs out, rubbed them with sandpaper and then put them back into my head. I need a plastic bubble to live in until the tree-sex quiets down.

[jemyl.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the tree spores are not counted as pollen maybe? Either that or you could be allergic to molds and they seem to be in abundance this year too.

I sympathize with your misery. I remember how awful springtime was for me in the Chicago Area. Here, stuff blooms all year, but the azaleas are now finished so that is some relief. I am not sure which I prefer, intense allergy suffering twice a year or the all year suffering but not quite so intense as is here.

Hope you feel better soon. I used to use the time in the bathroom steamed by a hot shower method for a bit of relief while I lived in the midwest. Here I have to drive to somewhere on the other side of the Intercoastal Waterway to be able to breathe for a while. I wish you hugs and chocolate, and some for Fiona too.

[tinymich.livejournal.com]

Pollen counts in New York are high too, and whatever it is in the air is kicking my ass. I left my prescription meds at home, and the OTC loratadine a colleague kindly passed me just isn't doing the trick.

I hear you on the wanting to go home and not being able to. Hang in there.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Re: your subject line. J has always referred to the trees with a much ruder word, but same idea.

[pantha-kjeet.livejournal.com]

Spring's a double-whammy for allergies. Tree pollen when it's dry and windy, mold when it's damp. I'm feeling better since the rain came and cleaned the pollen out of the air. Theoretically I'm allergic to mold too, but these days pollen bothers me more. So I'm kinda glad it's raining.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

D'you have some allergy medicine? I mean, not albuterol: ALLERGY medicine?

What a liberty!

[forgotten-years.livejournal.com]

I think it's a right liberty, that the trees are having it off, and *we* have to pay for the Kleenex!*

*or Scotties, or store brand, or what have you.