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well that day didn't go as planned
Aug. 20th, 2019 08:27 pmThings I have done today:
1. 90-minute web class session on cancellation of debt.
2. 90-minute web class session on vehicle expenses.
3. Bought groceries.
4. Picked up my new Celexa prescription. My old one hasn't actually run out yet, but I asked for the refill a little early in case my doctor's office decided to require an in-person checkup before issuing a replacement.
5. Unexpectedly set off an allergic reaction during the tail end of the morning tax class and spent the time from 11:15am to about 7pm fighting it with varied degrees of success.
I am not sure what the trigger was. I mean, the proximate cause was that I had a small glass of cranberry-pomegranate juice while eating an energy bar that contained almonds and some dried fruit, but I have not had problems with those bars in the past and the juice is pasteurized, so the proteins I react to should have been unraveled and therefore harmless. *hands* Bodies are weird and apparently mine was feeling oversensitive today.
Anyway, I took a Benadryl and hovered close to a sink to keep gargling, rinsing my mouth, and swallowing water (very painful for the first 45 minutes, since it had to get through my swollen and mucus-clogged esophagus) until I felt like I was no longer in danger of choking on my own saliva if I tried to sleep, after which I took an ~3-hour nap before my afternoon tax class. The Benadryl wore off during that class, so after it ended I was once again gargling and drinking absurd amounts of water and took a second Benadryl just before 6pm.
I think everything is back to normal now, since I've had two meals since the trigger food and also the chest pain/hard to swallow part never reoccurred after my nap, but man, that was not fun.
Food allergies suck, fyi. I do not recommend having one.
And now I am going to bed, because hey, Benadryl, and also I am hoping that the lingering aftereffects will be gone by the time I wake up in the morning.
1. 90-minute web class session on cancellation of debt.
2. 90-minute web class session on vehicle expenses.
3. Bought groceries.
4. Picked up my new Celexa prescription. My old one hasn't actually run out yet, but I asked for the refill a little early in case my doctor's office decided to require an in-person checkup before issuing a replacement.
5. Unexpectedly set off an allergic reaction during the tail end of the morning tax class and spent the time from 11:15am to about 7pm fighting it with varied degrees of success.
I am not sure what the trigger was. I mean, the proximate cause was that I had a small glass of cranberry-pomegranate juice while eating an energy bar that contained almonds and some dried fruit, but I have not had problems with those bars in the past and the juice is pasteurized, so the proteins I react to should have been unraveled and therefore harmless. *hands* Bodies are weird and apparently mine was feeling oversensitive today.
Anyway, I took a Benadryl and hovered close to a sink to keep gargling, rinsing my mouth, and swallowing water (very painful for the first 45 minutes, since it had to get through my swollen and mucus-clogged esophagus) until I felt like I was no longer in danger of choking on my own saliva if I tried to sleep, after which I took an ~3-hour nap before my afternoon tax class. The Benadryl wore off during that class, so after it ended I was once again gargling and drinking absurd amounts of water and took a second Benadryl just before 6pm.
I think everything is back to normal now, since I've had two meals since the trigger food and also the chest pain/hard to swallow part never reoccurred after my nap, but man, that was not fun.
Food allergies suck, fyi. I do not recommend having one.
And now I am going to bed, because hey, Benadryl, and also I am hoping that the lingering aftereffects will be gone by the time I wake up in the morning.
