Things are busy, and I have been under the weather for almost a week. What should have been just a cold proved to be a bit more problematic, all the more so in that I was slow in realizing it. If you are interested in the joys of allergies, read on. Otherwise, hope to have more free ice cream soon.
A joy of having allergies is the fact that the body can decide to react to things in very entertaining ways. In this case, the cold I picked up seems to have triggered an allergic response. It happens, and comes from the sinuses becoming hypersensitive. The trigger can be a bad/strong allergen, it can be a mild allergen, or it could just be a simple air molecule that hits the wrong receptor at the wrong time. The body then decides it is under attack and responds. Once you realize what is going on, you have to break the cycle to get rid of the allergic response before you can truly begin to treat the cold (or whatever generates the situation). Otherwise, the body puts almost all of its time, energy, and effort on maintaining the allergic response. Such is very draining, in all senses of the word. I was slow in realizing what was happening, so didn’t start to even try to break the cycle until Monday. That appears to now be done, and I am left with simply trying to beat a regular cold to death. Still tired, and will take a day or three to bounce back to full energy, but at least now the drain is stopped. Times like this I miss Ru-Tuss, an atropine based anti-histamine tablet regretably no longer made even in generic form, that did not require giving my papers to the Gestapo, er, DEA as trying to get anything with an effected decongestant seems to require these days. Right now, any candidate who came out and admitted the huge monetary, regulatory, and freedom cost (and abject failure of) of the so-called War On Drugs would get my attention and most likely my support.
LW
