Spring things: I am a diehard fan of spring. Year after year I am thrilled, renewed, and know in my heart that spring is one of God’s renewable miracles, and for that I give abundant thanks. Several blog pieces of mine pay homage to this season. On the other side of the coin, in my case anyway lays the very real other side of spring and for me it arrived two days ahead of the official first day of spring. For the next few months I will have a new look - red-slightly swollen-squinty and occasionally crusty eyes, and to remind me of the problem they will be accompanied by itching and burning, and I will be putting up the valiant fight against the “oh how I want to rub my eyes” sensation. Not willing to stop there, my nose will take on the various stages it is capable of, swelling, various stages of irritation from mild running, to a rare, but always lurking there - a full-blown sinus infection. I do get a warning of this, various places on my face become swollen and tender, and at times when I am really trying to ignore the whole thing, these various sinus tracts start hurting and throbbing like whatever was trapped in my head was using jackhammers to exit anyway possible. Years of various remedies for this have done nothing more than to prove that these simply do not work for some people, (me). There was one medicine years ago, but I was at the height of my clawing, climbing to the extent of my abilities to further my career, and this medicine in any dosage, made me feel absolutely out of control, and the pained look on my face reminded me of someone who can only be crudely described as “S _ _ _ faced”. So all of the above is just fine, I have learned through the years that the very best of things I get out of my life seldom come free, I will pay the price for spring as long as I am alive, and be glad of both. In fact today as I shuffled through the thick yellow pollen that fell onto everything around my house and yard, including my freshly washed car, I still looked skyward as I do the first trip out of the house of a day, and said a silent Thank you, for the first signs of spring in the trees.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:41:38 +0000
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