Allergies...Damn Them.

So today I went for my weekly allergy shot. Usually no big whoop. Today seemed like any other Wednesday, talked to the nurses, told them about my trip, sat in the lobby and waited for 15 min to see if I had a reaction. The only difference was that I missed last week because we were in Texas. That is also no biggie. They just give me the same dose as the previous week and I go on the next week with the dosage increases. I left and everything was fine...a little itchy but fine.

Took Scott to work and caught a glimpse of my left arm out of my peripheral vision while checking the mirror as I was driving away. IT WAS HUGE.

I had a baseball (at least) sized lump on my left bicep, but felt fine.

I called my doc's office and the nurses wanted me back. When they saw my arm they were astonished. I have never had more than a little mosquito bite looking lump. They sprung into action. Got my doc to look at it...she was astonished. They gave me steroids (pill) and a shot of something (I think epinephrine) directly into the lump, and a claritin. I started to tremble from the shot and that felt pretty weird, but I was fine.

I thought I would take a picture of my nastiness to show.

This lump has gone down considerably in the picture because it took about 30-40 min for me to get home.

It is so interesting to me that I lived so much of my life really allergic and just dealing with symptoms. I think some have gotten worse with age, but the culprits in this shot were cats (DON'T SAY A WORD), weeds and grasses. The doc thinks it was the weeds and grasses that are blooming now that did it. I agree, only because since I got home the boys have been attached at my hip and I have had no sneezing symptoms around them. I do sneeze like the dickens when I get outside and smell freshly cut weeds/grass/outdoors.

Doc. N told Rita the nurse to made note that I should not have dosage increases while crap is blooming. Ok, well she didn't say crap but I did.

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You can sort of see how far the lump is sticking out.














The white zone is where she shot the epi. It was completely red when I got there. Even in this picture you can see the circum-ference of the redness.


Ewwwww...nasty and a bit painful.


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