It's official- I have allergies!

After a lifetime spent telling people that I have allergies, as I cough, wheeze and sneeze around them (without so much as an official medical note stating that I am allowed to) I can now state for the record that I do "Officially" have allergies...

I went to an allergist on Friday and was tested against everything from dogs to milk- some 40+ tests in all. As some of you will know this involves sticking little needles coated with different things you might be allergic to, in your back. You then wait 15 minutes to see if you break out in a rash. Each of these has a number, and the nurse writes the different numbers on your back in felt pen before she starts pricking you. The nurse was somewhat surprised that as she wrote on my back I broke out in a rash. I guess I am allergic to felt pens!

Anyway, they found that I am also *very* allergic to grasses and somewhat to trees. I am also "allergic" to getting colds such that my immune system goes into overdrive and doesn't stop till well after the cold is gone. This has been a major problem from me, not least over the last 3 weeks which is what drove me to the allergist.

I now have a bewildering array of medicines- liquid spay inhalers, powder spray inhalers, nose sprays, mucus suppressants and Zirtek- which Ali (bless her) got me on in the UK last year- changing UK summer from a living hell into something I could live with.

As I lay there on my tummy, looking through the list of 40+ odd possible allergens that I was being tested for, I spotted one was missing...

"I am also allergic to work! Is there anything you can do for me?" I asked.
Alas, this is too much of a stretch for modern medicine in the 21st century!

Sigh!