Well, I guess I must face the music that I'm actually going to have to go back to work tomorrow! It's been so nice having the time off! 6 weeks until Spring Break - yes I counted!
Today I went to get my 1st allergy shots. I have been switching drs from an ENT to an allergist. I didn't feel like I was getting what I needed from the ENT - and my allergies were only moderatly better, so mid-Jan I started seeing an allergist. So far she has helped me immensly! I have taken all of her suggestions - including geting an expensive air cleaner and replacing nearly all the wall-to-wall carpeting in my house with laminate and I have noticed a dramatic improvement - in fact I'm off most of my meds for the 1st time in a year! I'd been getting allergies shots at the ENT but now I'm getting my shots from the allergist and today was my 1st one. It went as expected, except for one thing...my dr insits that all her allergy shot patients have an epi-pen. For those of you who don't know, allergy shots carry a small, very small, risk of anaphalyxis shock - you are being injected with things that you are allergic too. You have to wait in the drs. office for 20 mins after your shots just in case and it's very rare for it to happen after that, but my dr. apparently uses lots of caution!!!! I like this, I hope I don't ever have to use my new epi-pen, however I'm glad I have it in case I need it! The other interesting thing is that I got a list of symptoms which I'm suppose to watch for and use the epi-pen if any appear...nearly every symptom on the list I'd had following shots at the ENT! Most of the time it was 24+ hours after the shots, so I don't think they were serious, but still... I'm hopeful that this dr can help get my allergies under control as they have impacted my whole life and have been effecting my quality of life.
After my appointment I decided I'd go out to lunch. My dr is in Reston and there are some fun resteraunts there. I'd e-mailed some friends hoping they'd be able to meet me, but one was going out of town and the other didn't answer the e-mail so it was just me. I first attempted to go to Potbelly but the parking lot was crazy - all sorts of yuppie soccer moms in their SUVs and Volvo's fighting for parking places. So I decided I'd go over to the Reston Town Center to Cosi. They have a parking garage there, but again it was craziness - too many people! I finally did get a spot and went and had a nice lunch at Cosi!
Spent the rest of the day running errands and now I'm home enjoying my last evening of peace and relaxtion! The sidewalks are still very icy - it only got above freezing this afternoon for the 1st time since Tuesday - so I'm wondering if maybe we'll have a delay tomorrow morning, I don't think we'll get that lucky though.
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