Oh my aching sinuses!
Oct. 19th, 2005 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nolawitch58I've never had allergies to anything before, but I can't see what else the incessant running of my nose and sneezing could be. While driving around today running errands, I could smell the grody reek inside my car with the windows up and the air conditioner on. My nose was itching and running like a Republican from an indictment. I wonder what sort of creepy allergens are floating around that would make my hardy immune system run up to Defcon 3.
Bonnabel boat launch isn't too grody to have ritual there. We'd have to pick up a few chunks of debris and wade through tall grass, but it's a far cry better than the lakefront. Also, they removed the port-a-potties that were there before the storm. Laketown in Kenner is better. Not only is the grass mowed and the debris picked up, but there are a plethora of port-a-potties. (Gotta have a place to go when you gotta go, you know.)
In other stupid news, Nancy came over last evening to do some laundry, visit with her former cat and whine some more. Her friend Terry/Terri (however it's spelled) was with her since she has a minivan to haul some of Nancy's stuff back up to E-ville with them. They had been pawing through the mess that Nancy's apartment had become after the roof collapsed. I fed them homemade hamburgers and french fries for supper. They had planned to eat MREs, but I couldn't let someone eat a damned MRE under my roof while I have sufficient food for everyone.
Nancy seems to have NO freaking common sense at all. She was desperate to save pieces of wooden furniture that had gotten wet and were buried under the cluttered detritus of her life. Terry and I both explained that wood will either warp, mold or dry rot once it has gotten wet and there's no way to save it if it's been sitting soggy for over a month. She was also moaning about losing a lot of her Star Wars toys. I gave her a ration of shit, telling her she should be thankful she had anything at all left and that she wasn't pulled off a roof after several days by a helicopter. Terry and I were double-teaming her about her negative attitude. I was relieved when they left.
I can only imagine what sort of hellacious mess her apartment is. It was a hellacious mess before the roof collapsed. Honestly, if you read back through my entries a couple of months ago, you might remember I tried to help her declutter her place. There was only a narrow path to walk through the crap. If she had completed that decluttering and sold the extraneous junk on eBay as planned, the cleanup wouldn't be so awful. Maybe too, the universe would have spared her roof and left her remaining belongings intact. I've always thought that somehow the gods force you to do what you need to do whether you want to or not. Now is the time for her to get rid of stuff that keeps her tied to the past and juvenile behaviour and become an adult, taking responsibility for her life. I'm sorry she lost her mother, but she knew it was going to happen several months beforehand when her mother was diagnosed. No surprises. I'm sorry she refuses to face her losses like an adult. Shit, I lost both my parents, a cat and my first husband within a six month time span over a decade ago. I was ten years younger than she was and I coped. Sure I grieved, but I coped. Her weakness just irritates the shit out of me.
Bonnabel boat launch isn't too grody to have ritual there. We'd have to pick up a few chunks of debris and wade through tall grass, but it's a far cry better than the lakefront. Also, they removed the port-a-potties that were there before the storm. Laketown in Kenner is better. Not only is the grass mowed and the debris picked up, but there are a plethora of port-a-potties. (Gotta have a place to go when you gotta go, you know.)
In other stupid news, Nancy came over last evening to do some laundry, visit with her former cat and whine some more. Her friend Terry/Terri (however it's spelled) was with her since she has a minivan to haul some of Nancy's stuff back up to E-ville with them. They had been pawing through the mess that Nancy's apartment had become after the roof collapsed. I fed them homemade hamburgers and french fries for supper. They had planned to eat MREs, but I couldn't let someone eat a damned MRE under my roof while I have sufficient food for everyone.
Nancy seems to have NO freaking common sense at all. She was desperate to save pieces of wooden furniture that had gotten wet and were buried under the cluttered detritus of her life. Terry and I both explained that wood will either warp, mold or dry rot once it has gotten wet and there's no way to save it if it's been sitting soggy for over a month. She was also moaning about losing a lot of her Star Wars toys. I gave her a ration of shit, telling her she should be thankful she had anything at all left and that she wasn't pulled off a roof after several days by a helicopter. Terry and I were double-teaming her about her negative attitude. I was relieved when they left.
I can only imagine what sort of hellacious mess her apartment is. It was a hellacious mess before the roof collapsed. Honestly, if you read back through my entries a couple of months ago, you might remember I tried to help her declutter her place. There was only a narrow path to walk through the crap. If she had completed that decluttering and sold the extraneous junk on eBay as planned, the cleanup wouldn't be so awful. Maybe too, the universe would have spared her roof and left her remaining belongings intact. I've always thought that somehow the gods force you to do what you need to do whether you want to or not. Now is the time for her to get rid of stuff that keeps her tied to the past and juvenile behaviour and become an adult, taking responsibility for her life. I'm sorry she lost her mother, but she knew it was going to happen several months beforehand when her mother was diagnosed. No surprises. I'm sorry she refuses to face her losses like an adult. Shit, I lost both my parents, a cat and my first husband within a six month time span over a decade ago. I was ten years younger than she was and I coped. Sure I grieved, but I coped. Her weakness just irritates the shit out of me.
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Date: 2005-10-19 11:02 pm (UTC)This move has cost me a freaking ton of money I would rather have spent on a motorcycle (ore on that later) new surfboard, among oter things.
Anyway, try bendaryl for the allergies, unless you are really weezing your lungs to shreds. Benadryl makes me insane and very highstrung, but it might work for you. It's cheap and readily available.
BTW, do not tell Nancy my Star Wars toys were saved...
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Date: 2005-10-20 01:38 am (UTC)Her friend Terry seemed as frustrated with her as I am. I heard a lot of the same sentiments, if not the exact same words, coming out of her mouth as I expressed repeatedly to Nancy over the years.
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Date: 2005-10-19 11:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-20 01:32 am (UTC)Don't be...
Date: 2005-10-20 09:38 am (UTC)My mom had allergies for years and her nose lost sensitivity to the usual nasal drops, and she was somehow making it for years - until a couple of months ago she went to the nose/ear/throat specialist and he perscribed - you guessed it - Flixonase. She said it's amazing, sleeping with her nose working, after all these years.
Bottom line, don't shy away from the doctor - if it is indeed allergy, and if it's mainly nasal, they can work miracles.
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Date: 2005-10-20 01:19 am (UTC)It's sad really. NOLA can be rebuilt, but can it be cleansed from the microbial crap causing who knows what in those brave enough to return?
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Date: 2005-10-20 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-20 05:19 am (UTC)Second vote for the mold
Date: 2005-10-20 05:38 pm (UTC)Claritin is available OTC now and it doesn't put you to sleep. It worked for me pretty well. When I lived in NY I had a prescription for Zyrtec, that was decent as well.