"Small input, big reaction; something else is going on in the reactor."
I actually cried today (well, by myself and in my office) over some piddly little stupid bureaucratic mess thing that normally just makes me angry. (It wasn't the "good" kind of cry, but at least it wasn't the "ugly" cry - just a few tears shed over being fresh out of cope).
So I don't know what that means. I was doing so well. I hope it's just a temporary fluctuation, perhaps allergy-related.
Also perhaps allergy-related: my skin has gone crazy. SRSLY, it has. Itching like a forest fire, getting welty/hivey at almost no provocation. (yeah, I know, that's really hawt, in'nit.) I think I'm going to have to go buy some of that colloidal oatmeal bath junk again and start using it.
I haven't changed my diet and I haven't been around chemicals more than normally lately (though in this building, anything goes. There could be DDT leaking out of the vents for all we know). So I'm hoping (touch wood) it's just some kind of funky pollen reaction because it would be truly sad if I suddenly developed an allergy to milk or nuts or wool or any of the relatively small stock of things I really love in life.
(No, there have been digestive or respiratory symptoms, thank goodness).
2 comments:
Could your hives/skin issues be related to stress? Two years ago, I was under some stress (various issues with my aging parents) and developed terrible eczema on my hands (first time ever). Nothing else had really changed in my life at the time.
-- Grace in MA
It could be stress related as Grace suggested or it could be some plant you've come up against in your field work. Sometimes taking an antihistimine like Benadryl helps or I think there's a similar drug in a lotion that might help. If all else fails, you can go to a doctor and ask.
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