Today is March 31, 2022, the 90th day of the year.
And my allergies are really, really bothering me today.
I am having problems seeing clearly out of my left eye, and it is tearing up and presenting me with some problems right now.
When I get this way, it takes about two hours or so to fix itself, so I am looking at the 8:00 a.m. hour before I can see the right way again.
My nose is also running pretty badly today, so right now, I am something of a mess.
What is causing all of this agita for me?
It is certainly the weather, which has become really weird in my neck of the woods in recent days.
On Monday, we barely got into the 30s in temperature, and today, we are goi8ng to be about 25 degrees warmer than we were yesterday, when we were in the low 40s, so we might hit the high 60s or even the low 70s if we are lucky … and yes, rain is in the forecast too.
Now, I don’t have to tell you how this type of temperature change impacts you if you are an allergy sufferer like me, but if you aren’t—and you should thank your lucky stars for that, as it is a curse to suffer like I do—let me tell you about it.
Such a rapid shift in temperature opens up things in our environment that should not be here at this time of year, increases the various pollen counts exponentially—including that for the dreaded tree pollen—and makes people like me as miserable as can be.
I get my monthly allergy shots religiously, and I guess that helps protects me from such instances getting much worse than they already are, but quite frankly, there is nothing someone like me can do about the situation.
I pretty much just have to wait it out and hope for the best.
I went outside to get the newspaper out of the driveway, and it was pretty warm outside, but everything was wet, as if we had already experienced some rain.
And then I brought the paper into the house, started to eat breakfast, and found that I really could not focus on the newsprint at all, and I barely got through one story while eating my cereal.
Things did not get much better when I went on the computer and started to write this Rant, so here I am, rubbing my eyes while I try to focus on the words that I am typing out on my computer screen.
It ain’t an easy task, and thank goodness for spell check.
I will be OK, but it is going to take some time for my eyes to acclimate themselves so I can see clearly again.
And I say this as I wipe another tear from my left eye.
Over my nearly 65 years, I have to say that I have learned to live with days like this, and today will become just another blip on the radar in due time.
You know, a number of years ago, Paul Simon put out a single whose A side was a song called “Allergies,” a single which I snapped up when it was released without even hearing the song before purchasing it.
I figured that if he could name a song “Allergies,” it was almost as if the song was calling out to me to buy it.
It is a decent song, not one of Simon’s best, but still highly listenable. It reached #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983, so like today is for me, the song was basically a blip on his career radar for Simon.
Here are the lyrics to the song, as posted on the azlyrics.com site:
“Maladies
Melodies
Allergies to dust and grain
Maladies
Remedies
Still these allergies remain
My hand can't touch a guitar string
My fingers just burn and ache
My head intercedes with my bodily needs
And my body won't give it a break
My heart can stand a disaster
My heart can take a disgrace
But my heart is allergic
To the women I love
And it's changing the shape of my face
Allergies
Allergies
Something's living on my skin
Doctor please
Doctor please
Open up it's me again
I go to a famous physician
I sleep in the local hotel
From what I can see of the people like me
We get better
But we never get well
So I ask myself this question
It's a question I often repeat
Where do allergies go
When it's after a show
And they want to get something to eat?
Allergies
Allergies
Something's living on my skin
Doctor please
Doctor please
Open up it's me again
Maladies
Melodies
Allergies to dust and grain
Maladies
Remedies
Still these allergies remain”
I guess I can relate to those lyrics, especially the line “Still these allergies remain.”
I have had these allergies my whole life, and to my chagrin, they simply are not going to go away.
And my allergies are really, really bothering me today.
I am having problems seeing clearly out of my left eye, and it is tearing up and presenting me with some problems right now.
When I get this way, it takes about two hours or so to fix itself, so I am looking at the 8:00 a.m. hour before I can see the right way again.
My nose is also running pretty badly today, so right now, I am something of a mess.
What is causing all of this agita for me?
It is certainly the weather, which has become really weird in my neck of the woods in recent days.
On Monday, we barely got into the 30s in temperature, and today, we are goi8ng to be about 25 degrees warmer than we were yesterday, when we were in the low 40s, so we might hit the high 60s or even the low 70s if we are lucky … and yes, rain is in the forecast too.
Now, I don’t have to tell you how this type of temperature change impacts you if you are an allergy sufferer like me, but if you aren’t—and you should thank your lucky stars for that, as it is a curse to suffer like I do—let me tell you about it.
Such a rapid shift in temperature opens up things in our environment that should not be here at this time of year, increases the various pollen counts exponentially—including that for the dreaded tree pollen—and makes people like me as miserable as can be.
I get my monthly allergy shots religiously, and I guess that helps protects me from such instances getting much worse than they already are, but quite frankly, there is nothing someone like me can do about the situation.
I pretty much just have to wait it out and hope for the best.
I went outside to get the newspaper out of the driveway, and it was pretty warm outside, but everything was wet, as if we had already experienced some rain.
And then I brought the paper into the house, started to eat breakfast, and found that I really could not focus on the newsprint at all, and I barely got through one story while eating my cereal.
Things did not get much better when I went on the computer and started to write this Rant, so here I am, rubbing my eyes while I try to focus on the words that I am typing out on my computer screen.
It ain’t an easy task, and thank goodness for spell check.
I will be OK, but it is going to take some time for my eyes to acclimate themselves so I can see clearly again.
And I say this as I wipe another tear from my left eye.
Over my nearly 65 years, I have to say that I have learned to live with days like this, and today will become just another blip on the radar in due time.
You know, a number of years ago, Paul Simon put out a single whose A side was a song called “Allergies,” a single which I snapped up when it was released without even hearing the song before purchasing it.
I figured that if he could name a song “Allergies,” it was almost as if the song was calling out to me to buy it.
It is a decent song, not one of Simon’s best, but still highly listenable. It reached #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983, so like today is for me, the song was basically a blip on his career radar for Simon.
Here are the lyrics to the song, as posted on the azlyrics.com site:
“Maladies
Melodies
Allergies to dust and grain
Maladies
Remedies
Still these allergies remain
My hand can't touch a guitar string
My fingers just burn and ache
My head intercedes with my bodily needs
And my body won't give it a break
My heart can stand a disaster
My heart can take a disgrace
But my heart is allergic
To the women I love
And it's changing the shape of my face
Allergies
Allergies
Something's living on my skin
Doctor please
Doctor please
Open up it's me again
I go to a famous physician
I sleep in the local hotel
From what I can see of the people like me
We get better
But we never get well
So I ask myself this question
It's a question I often repeat
Where do allergies go
When it's after a show
And they want to get something to eat?
Allergies
Allergies
Something's living on my skin
Doctor please
Doctor please
Open up it's me again
Maladies
Melodies
Allergies to dust and grain
Maladies
Remedies
Still these allergies remain”
I guess I can relate to those lyrics, especially the line “Still these allergies remain.”
I have had these allergies my whole life, and to my chagrin, they simply are not going to go away.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.