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Another Dip in Health

I have already written about my health crashing due to hot, humid weather over the past week but I haven't really written about the early part of the weekend. On the positive side, I think I am finally beyond this latest bout of poor health. Time will tell. Thursday, Friday and Saturday were rather lousy. Well, actually, the whole week was rather lousy but Thursday, Friday and Saturday were quite rough with some dangerously lousy health. I was overwhelmingly exhausted. I could have fallen asleep only a moment after deciding to allow myself to fall asleep at any time during the day. I was fighting staying awake all week long. This should have been my first clue that I was teetering on the brink of anaphylaxis with very low blood pressure... I didn't realize it yet though. I was having difficulty breathing at times. I often have difficulty breathing especially when the weather is hot like it was this past week so I was not associating this symptom with the fatigue. I should

Borderline Anaphylaxis

We had the kids over yesterday for playing with dolls, playing trains, watching some movies and a nice pot roast dinner. It was a nice day, as always, but my health didn't cooperate whatsoever. Aside from all my usual medications, I needed to throw a lot of extra emergency medications at my health after having a serious bout of poor health leading to impending anaphylaxis. My breathing has been rather miserable over the past few days anyway... "miserable" compared to the usual "lousy"... but then I started feeling nauseated. At this point... the point when the second symptom appeared... I should have taken some epinephrine and some extra emergency medications. I wasn't thinking clearly so I didn't. (I haven't been thinking too clearly lately either which is another common symptom of this illness... brain fog clouding my cognitive reasoning.) Eventually, my health worsened significantly into difficulty with nausea, narrowing vision, lightheadedn