OH HOLY CRAP. So, why I haven’t been back to say hi this week is because I’m covered in hives. This is an entirely new phenomenon to me, as the last time I had them I was 6 months old. They determined at that point that I was allergic to penicillin, and I’ve never reacted to a thing since.<\/p>\n
I spent Sunday and Monday being vastly annoyed at the army of mosquitos that was treating me like a buffet at night but leaving Matt entirely alone. When I woke up yesterday, I finally figured out that they weren’t bug bites at all.<\/p>\n
I look like a leper, and I’ve decided that the greatest torture device of all time would probably involve just this… wanting to shave your own skin off with a vegetable peeler rather than having to resist scratching anymore. It’s horrible, and it keeps me awake half the night. The doctor told me to take Benadryl and Claritin yesterday, but I woke up with new hives this morning, so I gave up and went to urgent care. I’m now on steroids for 6 days, and the possible side-effects are kind of terrifying. If they work, though, I don’t care.<\/p>\n
Nobody has a clue what caused this in the first place. Therefore, I’ve compiled a list of the things I may suddenly be allergic to:<\/p>\n
I seriously hope it’s none of those things, because I enjoy them all a lot and wish to participate in them again. So I’ll keep popping steroids (even though that means I’ll never<\/em> make the Tour de France) and antihistamines, and continue coating myself in a thick layer of hydrocortisone, and hopefully this will all be resolved before I have to resort to the peeler.<\/p>\n Jenni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OH HOLY CRAP. So, why I haven’t been back to say hi this week is because I’m covered in hives. This is an entirely new phenomenon to me, as the last time I had them I was 6 months old. They determined at that point that I was allergic to penicillin, and I’ve never reacted …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-list","category-sick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}