Keep walking, I'm breathing

[sovay]

I did not get sheep-dipped in Benadryl, but I am full of antihistamines and eating a pumpernickel bagel with chopped liver and a coconut-milk milkshake.

I have not become allergic to my cats. My long-time allergies to dust mites have worsened to the point where the mitigation strategies in which I already engage are not cutting it, so I have some further suggestions, an alteration to my medications, and we go from here. I also seem to have become allergic to pigweed, which I had never even heard of until I looked it up, at which point it turned out to be amaranth which I have both eaten and admired as an ornamental plant. I am decorated with surgical marker and punctures. I had been scratch-tested before, but never intradermally injected.

The fog at dawn was an astonishing suffusion of gold, glinting like rainbows around the Prudential. Afterward I took a couple of pictures from MGH and the Longfellow Bridge. I believe my plans for the afternoon involve a nap.

Comments

[chanter1944]

Your afternoon sounds like a significant improvement, given your description of the previous few days.

I'm not sure I knew amaranth had an alternate name. Dust mites be gone! Also, thank God for a lack of cat allergies, truly. I know what joy the soot sprites of legend bring your household, and I speak as someone whose only familiarity is via journal posts.

[sovay]

Your afternoon sounds like a significant improvement, given your description of the previous few days.

I even slept for a couple of hours! I have this theory of doing more of it tonight!

I'm not sure I knew amaranth had an alternate name.

After conversation with choco_frosh and pameladean, the identity of the pigweed seems incredibly unclear on a taxonomical level and I am going to ask the allergist for details. It may yet be amaranth! Watch this space.

Dust mites be gone! Also, thank God for a lack of cat allergies, truly. I know what joy the soot sprites of legend bring your household, and I speak as someone whose only familiarity is via journal posts.

Thank you. They remain my best doctors.