Runaway Booger!

My allergies have always been bad for as long as I can remember. The kind of allergies where blowing your nose only helps for a second and then more needs to be blown out. It makes for a very sore nose and plenty of embarrassment as a child. One time I was traveling somewhere, I was very young, I laid my head down on my Mom's leg to sleep while we were riding in a car to our destination. When we arrived at our destination, a nice pile of snot was pooled on my Mom's jeans at her knee.

But, my most embarrassing moment occurred when I was in the sixth grade. The students were seated around one long row of tables. Kids on both sides sitting in chairs. As it happens, a girl I had a crush on was sitting across from me. My nose starts itching off and I'm scratching it and scratching it. It just will not stop itching. Finally this bright green booger falls out of my nose while I am scratching it. I see it and immediately try to sweep it off the table. I look up to see if anyone noticed and I see the girl I have a crush on noticed. Guess what she did? I'm thinking she is going to go eeewwwwww gross and the whole class is going to make fun of me. Instead of that though, she starts laughing. My face is red but I laugh too and a horrible experience became an unpleasant and only slightly embarrassing experience. I lucked out that day :)

I went to an allergy specialist when I was around 28 or so. They stuck me with a lot of needles in the skin to find out what all I was allergic to. The only things I can remember them telling me I as allergic to are mold and beans. There were many other things. I was given a shot two times a week. This was to go on for five years. I decided right quick that it was just better to suffer through the allergies than go through that torment.

If you have allergies like this or worse, I highly suggest taking an allergy pill like xyzal, which I think is generic now, once a day. On those real bad days like I am having now, spray your nose with an anti histamine. It stops the constant need to blow your nose. This was my wife's idea. She works for doctors and seems to know how to cure my ailments. I fight her though. I hate taking medicine. I would rather suffer than take anything. She don't care, she says "better living through chemistry" and shoves the pill down my throat :)

I have to say, it is so much better only having to deal with allergies around the March and April time frame than dealing with it all year round.