sinuses completely clogged today. i feel horrible. ENT appointment is on August 20th.. where's my Claritin ?

the EarNoseThroat doctor appointment is on august 20th 2002. that is the earliest appointment they could find. i need one now so he can see whats wrong while its wrong. not when everything is settling down and allergies are gone. canada needs to revamp its health sector. gah.. me angry

a perfect day today. no symptoms at all. i happy.

the eye is a bit red and itchy though. but the anti-histamine eye-drops (which sting really bad) took care of that.

no sneezes and headaches today. but a runny nose that is still running :-/ i just took a Claritin tablet so hopefully that'll fix this up. enough!! its 2pm already.

also, administering eye drops to your own eye is quite challenging.

it seems that the enemy has decided to lie dormant for a while. perhaps charania's defense system came as a surprise to them and they were caught unprepared for it. hopefully they won't be able to develop an immunity to the spray and their troops will loose morale and decide that it is, after all, a pointless battle. come september and they won't find a friend anywhere in the nasal cavities.

today = no headaches, no sneezes (oh heaven!!), and no runny nose either. i didn't even have to take a Claritin tablet.

I should've started this a while ago but procrastination reared its ugly head once again and so here i am a week after this current allergy attack started. the main reason for this is to remind myself that i go thru this insanity every year. around september, when school starts, the allergies go away and i become a happy man again loving nature and all that. and from september all the way to around mid may the allergies stay hidden and do not disturb me. during this glorious time period i forget the pangs and sorrows of being allergic to almost eveything green, living, and holding a valid Plant Kingdom Membership Card. so when dr. charania asked me if this happened every year or are there some specific months when they act up i was at a loss and could only reply, "yes they start sometime around these months" <-- dumb dumb. and hence the reason for this higly informative webpage on the world wide web. here goes :

for the past five or six days i have been waking up with a horrible headache, an endless chain of sneezing, which pops the ears sometimes, a stuffy, blocked, and runny nose, and ears that need to be popped open asap. trust me it is no fun. today was almost the same. when i woke up there was no headache, no runny nose, no dry throat (cuz of blocked nose at night), and no sneezing. i was ecstatic for a moment thinking that dr. charania's two-sprays-everynight-before-bedtime worked wonders on my system. however, once i was downstairs making me some noodles for breakfast the membranes in the nasal cavity unleashed one of their worst attacks in recent history. i had to run upstairs to get some tissues to keep myself decent. and now here i am with noodles and hot chocolate on one side and a bunch of tissues on the other. happy summer to you too!!