For Wheals!!!

Hi, guys...(said sheepishly). So. Last run was July 22nd...yeah. To justify this, I'll share some incidents with you. Well...one incident that started this roller coaster two weeks. So the bugs love me. I'm all sweet and junk or something. Or I don't know maybe bugs love bitter...I can confess I might be slightly bitter. Just slightly. But the point is, I have been bit several times in the last month. Mostly my right arm. Apparently, it's delicious. So the last bite started out as a small, nondescript bite, turned into an itchy nuisance, then blew up in a fit of cellulitis. I told you about the draining and the pain and the visit to the doc's. Well, everything seemed to be fine. But I noticed while taking the antibiotics some side effects. Which I RARELY have. Until lately that is....something to do with age, although I'm skeptical...I'm as healthy now as I was when I was sixteen gosh darnit!

It started with some dizziness. Twenty minutes post swallowing the giant white pill the world would spin and shift. Slightly...almost unnoticeable but I felt it most if I was sitting too still. Then gradually the dizziness turned into pretty bad nausea. And that is the WORST. When you feel that queasiness but no relief because you just can't purge it from the back of your throat. There were a couple of days when I tried to start a run but I just couldn't get the feeling to go away enough to muster up the will to just run! It was frustrating. Then I noticed my appetite. I had none. I would think I wanted something, make it, and sit down to eat it. Aaaaaand nothing. Everything looked disgusting. So instead of enjoying my food as I usually do (cuz I loooooove food), I was eating just because I knew I had to for my health, I guess. I started skipping breakfast again. *Sad face* Bad! And then the migraine hit. Saturday I was sitting at a shop, waiting for my oil change, and my head felt like it just imploded on itself. I felt like my ears were bleeding. It was horrible being there in that shop where there was lots of light, lots of noise, and lots of scents/smells. Popped an Excedrin (love these!) and it took the edge off but holy guacamole!

she's a beauty!

And then Sunday morning the itchiness crept in. Slowly but surely. It didn't help that the classroom I was teaching in was extremely hot...made me uncomfortable. I almost lost my cool in the middle of a lesson. During the whole lesson, my arm was extremely itchy. It was distracting. I didn't think anything of it...thought that it was just my bite healing from the draining and what not. But Monday the itchiness traveled down my whole forearm. By Tuesday afternoon, both of my arms were covered in red, blotchy wheals. Tuesday evening, my legs and feet were covered, the itchiness driving me to a point of madness. So where did I go today on my day off? Back to the doc's. So the doc concluded that I'm allergic to sulfamethoxazole. So now I can no longer put NONE when asked on a medical form if I have any allergies to certain medications. He said that I should stop the medication....I only had ONE more day. Oh well. Oh apparently I was not supposed to be running under the sun while I was on this antibiotic. It clearly stated this on the bottle...I don't read prescription bottles apparently. Doc said it's probably why I got that migraine and dizziness. So yeah. Oh well. Recommended I take Benadryl in the meantime and come back if the condition worsens like if I have trouble breathing and stuff. So there's that....

And the point is, I've had a rough past two weeks. I'm hoping to get over all these silly side effects, get back to normal, and start running again before this next 5K which is August 31st!!!!!

Also!!!

^^--THAT KID STARTS KINDERGARTEN SOOOOOON!!! Say whaaaaaa???? Excuse me while I sit a while in shock and bewilderment!!!

So yeah!! I must make good with my running goals again!