I swear this year's allergies are like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: you never know what you are going to get.
Yesterday afternoon, my left eyelid started swelling. It got worse overnight (I think partly from position; it's less swollen now). It itches, and I can tell it wants to droop and look bad. (I'm gonna cringe if I walk into class and someone goes, "Oh noes, what happened to your EYE?")
It's not pinkeye. I looked the symptoms up online. I have a considerable fear of pinkeye. This is just plain old allergies. I took a Claritin this morning and tried a cold compress but neither did much. I may have to - as much as I hate it - go and buy some Benadryl (Benadryl absolutely knocks me on my can for two days after taking even a very low dose of it).
That said, I think DISCRETION being the better part of VALOR (ugh. I didn't catch that earlier - I had the terms reversed and it would bug me forever if I didn't change it), (Edited again: I have it right this time, finally. Argh. Shakespeare quotation FAIL.) I don't think I'm going to try to sort the last soil sample today. I did one yesterday and I think that may have contributed to the problem.
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When I was a teenager, there was a year when I suddenly became allergic to wool. Even just being in a room with a wool carpet and people moving around was enough to make my lips and eyelids look grotesque. I will be forever grateful to my Mom because she did not make me go to school like that. (It did subside after I stayed completely away from wool for several months.)
IIRC, swollen lips and eyelids are among the more difficult symptoms to control, and they are also among the more embarrassing to try to deal with. My sympathies.
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