So maybe the constant pounding we Coloradoans got over the past few months was good for something. I'm pretty sure that the consistent cold, snowy weather helped me stay healthy. This week we enjoyed the sun on our faces and even slathered on a layer of sunscreen to keep the Mile High sun from frying our skin. With temperatures in the low to mid-70s, life was good. The feet of snow in the yards of our neighbors who live on the "wrong" side of the street even melted!! I was amazed. But there was one drawback...going from cold to hot to cold again has left me with some mix of allergic reaction and cold. Ugh.
How is it that a couple of days warmth encourages bees to start buzzing, trees to start blooming and my nose to start dripping? And someone, please explain to me how you can be so stuffed up, but your right nostril continues to flow like a faucet? Regardless, we literally had three days of warm weather, so now that the late spring-like days have vanished, I think my annoying congestion, itchy nose and watery eyes should disappear along with it!
I don't know why I'm surprised. Every year March rolls around, the sun starts to warm things up and inevitably we get a good dose of snow, and my body goes into shock. I'm guessing I'm allergic to some kind of pollenating tree but after watching the doctor prick my daughter's back about 20 times when we were trying to identify her allergens, do ya think I'm volunteering for that torture? Ain't no way. So I suffer. And year after year I catch it on the "full-bloom" end of things, once I'm itchy, watery and sounding like a stuffed-up first grader.
Not another year, it won't catch me with my nasal passages open and ready to be attacked by God knows what is flying out there in the air. I'm marking my calendar for March and again in August to start chugging antihistamines to keep the allergy attacks at bay. August, for me, is far worse than March...but this year, I'll be ready for it.
I don't know how you're feeling, but if you suffer through allergies year after year, brace yourself because 'tis the season. Will YOU be ready?
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