June 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
So this hay fever is totally evil.
My sinuses are so clogged that whenever I swallow, my eardrums bulge. The whites of my eyes are constantly red. Various drugs, while having little effect on the symptoms, have transformed me into a walking, sniffing, bloodshot zombie.
The only preventative technique that seems to actually work is to wear huge celebrity sunglasses at all times. And this, of course, makes people look at you as if they think you’re trying to impersonate Posh Spice or someone, even in your baggy jeans and man’s sweatshirt.
Plus it’s really difficult to use a computer indoors whilst wearing sunglasses.
Anyway, enough moaning…here’s something cool. If you buy Writing Magazine this month, and turn to Margaret James’s article about “Sizzling Sex,” you can read about me talking about “hard, throbbing lollies”. Hee hee hee…
Fran says:
bless you..
i had just been looking at subscribing to the writing magazine…
and thanks again..
cyclops8 says:
Big glasses look goofy on a lot of people. Not everyone can pull that look off, for example the Olsen twins.
Heather Hiestand says:
Feel better soon!
Jan Jones says:
You could try buying the non-drowsy hay fever tablets from Boots? (They’re ‘buy one pack, get one pack free’ at the moment). Then you’ll still be sniffling and bloodshot, but no longer a zombie.
(((hugs))) anyway.
Nell Dixon says:
My daughter has severe hayfever. Her regime is one zirtec a day plus a nasal spray mornings and evenings and optichrom eyedrops three to four times a day. Try not to sit out in the evening and uses a little vaseline around your nose to trap the pollen. Wrap around sunglasses are best for keeping pollen from your eyes.
Julie says:
You’re welcome Fran!
cyclops8, at this point I don’t care if I look goofy or not. Big bug-eye glasses are better than small puffy red eyes. I hope nobody takes a photo though.
Thank you, Heather.
Jan, even the non-drowsy ones make me drowsy. Plus they don’t work. Argh!!!
Nell, I will get some spray and try the vaseline too. Thank you.
My husband has opened the bedroom window, which means I won’t sleep tonight. Again: argh!!!
Julie Day says:
I can sympathise with you. Both of my colleagues here at work suffer badly with hay fever and my brother too. He has tried this new light therapy probe but says it doesn’t really work that well. I have never had it but starting to feel that I am slightly now as I have had a bunged up nose for the last 2-3 weeks along with a dry tickly cough which makes my left eye watery.
I did read your comments in the Writing Magazine. I thought that Trisha’s (I think it was) comments that you write the book you feel is right for you is true. I know I do.
Hope the hay fever dies down soon for you.
LindaC says:
You definitely have my sympathies, Julie. Have you tried any saline for unplugging? Every night before I go to bed, I rub some mentholatum under my nose and it helps me breathe a little better and it definitely helps with all of the chafing that comes from blowing and wiping the nose all day. Hoep that it lets up for you soon.
LindaC
Ro says:
Yegods! I turn my back for a few days and everything’s changed. Okay, so it’s been a little longer than a few days but even so …
For what it’s worth, I like it. Nice and clean
Back to the hayfever. This is the first year I’ve suffered with it. I blame the loss of my facial hair (not a solution, I’m sure, that you could dream of for yourself) but whatever the reason it’s driving me nuts too.
One thing that does seem to help is a smear of lip salve on my top lip (as well as the ever-present sunglasses). I’m told that a spoonful of honey every day helps too.
Julie says:
Julie D and Ro, it sounds like hay fever has attacked new people this year. I never had it, myself, until I got pregnant, though as I’ve always had allergies of one sort or another I suppose it was just a matter of time.
Anyway, lots of people are telling me they’re suffering worse this year than ever before. Maybe we’ve all shaved, Ro.
(Nice HNT pic on your blog, BTW.)
Nell, I am following your daughter’s regimen (without zirtec) since yesterday and it really does help. Thank you.
Linda, I am completely flummoxed by this, but YOU CANNOT EASILY BUY SALINE here in the UK. Not in nice big bottles like you can everywhere in the US. It’s like gold dust here. It’s salt water!!! I don’t understand it!!!!!
Julie D, I agree that Trisha had some good advice; I liked what she said about flirting being very erotic.
Ro says:
Glad you liked the pic, Julie … there are plenty more on there!