It’s been quite a week. I’m sure many of you are anxious because I certainly have been. In spite of the fact that I have very little influence on the world I am compelled to take the weight of all its problems onto my shoulders. Combined with my actual weight that’s a bit much. I’ve been gritting my teeth so hard on one side that my face has gotten an infection on that side. It’s been quite some time since I’ve done that. I’ve also been spending more time in the old study which seems to really get my allergies going. I put one of my purifiers in there to mitigate the issue and had to vacuum out the filter today. I’m going to see about cleaning the closet out a bit and seeing if I can seal up any places that might be letting insulation fibers get out. Long time readers will remember when I was sleeping in there for a while I had a lot more anxiety problems. There’s some x factor in there that seems to irritate me and allergens is probably the most likely thing. Combining that with the fact that this years has been legendarily bad for allergies already I probably should have just waited till winter to try and tackle the cleaning project. It is what it is though, so I’m getting by as best I can. If I could rinse out my sinuses I absolutely would though.
I started taking an allergy pill right as I lay down to sleep and it has reduced my nightmares to almost zero as long as my mask doesn’t come off or I don’t twist into a weird position in my sleep. That reduced me waking up in complete panic quite a bit. Not totally, but enough that I don’t have that also being a constant thing. I did have a really severe anxiety attack out of nowhere the other day, but I had gone outside right as they were bailing hay or whatever. The machines were literally 100 feet away and I sat in the path of the dust because I didn’t realize the way the wind was blowing. I was like “well shit” when I realized what I had done. I could feel the dust getting into my eyes right away. Then I decided it probably wasn’t that big a deal and sat out there for 20 minutes or so. I regretted it pretty quick after going back in. Once I have that happen it takes several days for me to wind back down to normal and I keep doing things to irritate my sinuses on top of it. Really I have mostly myself to blame, although I feel like world events should take a bit of the heat too…

I rinsed my eyes out but it’s been particularly bad today. My nose feels like it has an inner crust that I can’t sweep out and my sinuses are in quite a state. I’ve also been living with my awareness stuck behind my left eye most of the time, which is the one most affected by the irritation. It rained a lot yesterday so maybe the dust will at least be down for a few days and I can recover a bit.

In spite of everything I’ve been doing my exercises and adding in new things. When I’m feeling good I can go up the stairs without having to lean on the wall now. So there is observable progress.

Anyway, I felt like you deserved an update on me. It’s not all that interesting but you can see why I made a pretty simple page today. Hopefully I’ll feel better by Monday and can do more impressive work. Within the limits of my skill anyway. Until then I hope you have a nice weekend. I’ll see you when I see you.

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there’s ALWAYS room for ice cream

There is a little known secondary stomach just to the side of the primary just for good desserts

That’s spooky…my sister was just telling me about the theory of: “Everyone has TWO stomachs. One or regular food, and one for desserts!”

That is what one of my great granpas used to say, that he had second stomach just for icecream.

Ice cream is usually melted by the time it reaches the stomach. So it can just flow past the stomach, passing the other food that gets processed there.

Carol has a hollow leg she keeps just for ice cream.

Heh, so true. She reminds me a little of my grandmother, she was a German immigrant, VERY strong accent. As a boy she always demanded that I eat, eat, eat! Get big and strong! So yeah, I gained a big appetite. And found out I had an allergy to cabbage… She would make jar after jar of preserves, mostly sauerkraut. Oh and marmalade. Mashed potatoes so dense you could roll it into a ball and throw it at her mean tabby… LOL!

Question, does sauerkrautifying cabbage remove the allergenic aspect?

The whipsaw to Carol’s expression in the last panel is a hoot. Good thing she already loves you, Thomas.

I don’t normally comment on things or offer unsolicited medical advice either, but you could look into getting yourself a hoover with a HEPA filter. I used to have a terrible dust mite allergy, which all but disappeared after getting that vacuum cleaner. The big advantage is that cleaning doesn’t stir up dust and make things worse, it actually reduces the amount of allergens around you. In my case, one big spring cleaning was all it took to get things under control. This may help you too if your carpets full of pollen.

Part of the cleaning effort will be pulling up the old carpet.

After we moved into the first house we actually bought, we discovered that the previuos owners had had rabbits as pets. Now my wife if violently allergivc to rabbits.
I spent the next week removing all the carpets while she sheltered from the allergens.
Turned out the wooden floors were much nicer than the carpets. Why had they been covered up?

What’s funny is that my family is the opposite; we never order dessert because we’re always full after a good meal. Eating dessert at restaurants (not counting, you know, Dairy Queen) was like a foreign concept to me growing up.

2884 There’s Always Room.

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