I had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day today and if Australian's do not have anaphylaxis allergies, I'd like to move there!
I will spare my few readers the gory details (I'd like to keep the one or two of you around!), but just know that I had the worst morning of my life. It started out on Friday. Mia and I went out for sushi after dinner, you know to celebrate the fact that we all still had jobs after Jackie's visit. Sushi was my safe food :) I had a sinking feeling about the seaweed. I tried a seaweed salad before and it burned my mouth, so I figured it bothered my allergies. Perhaps there was something in it that I was allergic to. Well, it appears a bit more than that. Saturday morning I woke up in a lot of pain and on the toilet (this is the part where I spare the details). After some time of this pain and such, I took my blood pressure, it was super high (think 150/120)! I should have been on my way to a stroke! My throat started to feel like it was closing, I tried testing my peak flow (it's an asthma thing). My personal best is 380 (which I might add, I have no idea why my lungs were in such a good mood that that, I couldn't get that again if I traded my soul to the devil for a new set of lungs!). Saturday morning my peak flow was at 250, well below my yellow warning section! I still think I was breathing okay though, hate to see what it says I am doing when I feel like I'm breathing isn't quite so well. Things began to become progressively worse and I really had no choice but to reach for the epi-pen (which I was prescribed an abundant mess off for the my anaphylaxis allergy to latex/rubber, which I never realized was that bad!). I was frightened! It took more than 10 minutes to finally give myself the stupid shot that may have saved my life! After giving myself the shot, I had to go to the ER (I had already called into job number one, fat man in the sky was okay with it, he worries a lot about me). I also had to make it to job number two by 1:00...this was going to cut it short!
Anyway, at the hospital, I got an injection of more anti-histamine, a breathing treatment (I guess my breathing was worse than I thought), and an x-ray of my throat (there's a first time for everything). I was sent home with some steroids and more anti-histamine and the harsh cold reality that I was to "stay away from sushi". I am crushed! However, I think somewhere in my mind, I saw it coming. Most of the ingredients in sushi are a cross-allergen to the latex/rubber family. There is a giant list of things. As I have been told before, you have an allergy bucket. When you are eating/exposed to your allergens on a daily basis, your body is fighting hard to keep it all at bay. Once you cut your allergens you start to feel much better, the trade off is the bucket grows smaller. Your allergy bucket becomes full much more fast. This is what happened to me. I ate avocado, a lot of shell fish (love oysters!), and seaweed. Am I happy about "staying away from sushi"? NO, I am very upset and don't really know how to cope! I'm sure I will make it through alive, but this is not my idea of fun! I will now have dreams of swimming around in pools of raw shell fish.....yummy!
Ugh, hopefully I can fall asleep soon, 2:30 am and I had a long day. After the ER, I made it to work, with 10 minutes to spare! I was exhausted there, and still am, but can't sleep because of the bruise on my legs! I am also dehydrated and have a cramp due to my throat hurting so badly that I can't swallow well! Ugh, enough complaining, no wonder no likes to read ;) Hopefully, I will find something entertaining in my life, you know besides my trip to North Carolina! I can't wait for that!!!
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