I am not a Darwinist at all, but after seeing my body go through a recent evolutionary step, I can understand where he comes from.
For the past two days my allergies have been out of control. Seriously, my nose is officially a faucet, my eyes are itchy, and I am sneezing like crazy. During this time, I miss certain things in life that often get overlooked like breathing through my nose, the ability to smell, a dry kleenex, and my contacts not causing me excruciating pain as they enter my eyes. I have given up trying to stop the allergies. However, I am taking the Dan Patrick approach towards the allergies, “You can’t stop it, you can only hope to contain it.”
The really frustration comes from my past non-struggle with allergies. I never had allergies growing up. I have often taken a little pride in the fact that I never had allergies. I would often laugh and make fun of my sister because she always had bad allergies. Hey, when you feel like the deck was always stacked against you, I had to take pride in something (I recognize and admit that taking pride in not having allergies is really lame).
Is this simply a case of Proverbs 16:18 (Pride goes before destruction)? Or is it something different? I have my own hypothesis because all these nose spasms and pouring fluid happened when I moved almost 4 years ago to Texas. Yes, I believe that I am allergic to Texas.
Now, people who are reading this from any other state than Texas are probably rationally reading this thinking that there are probably specifics in the Texas environment that I am currently living in that I had never previously been exposed to that is causing allergic reactions. They might even giggle a little. However, people that are from Texas are reading this thinking, “that Tennessee boy just can’t handle the awesomenecity of Texas - that’s what he’s allergic to!” I can hear the Texas pride coming down against me already for thinking that.
Has anybody else experienced sudden allergies that were not there earlier in life? Anybody experience that like I did when I moved to a different area of the country? Does anybody have any good-ole-boy, home remedies that get rid of allergies because Claritin just is not working?
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Check back soon because I have been working on a little blog series called “Brian-isms” where I am going to give some of my thoughts on life. Should be entertaining and possibly controversial; should definitely stir up some good conversation.
Brian, I’ve never really had any problem with allergies either, but this year I have been experiencing some problems. Try Zyrtec (instead of Claritin). You can get the generic brand at WalMart. I think it works better (just take it at night–that’s supposed to be the best time to take allergy meds). Let me know if that helps. I have another idea–if you are allergic to TEXAS, maybe your body is telling you it’s time to move back closer to your MOTHER!!! Just an idea.
Brian - It’s not Texas…it’s Sulphur Springs! I never had allergies a day in my life until I married and moved here! I feel your pain…
Mom - next time be a little more subtle in your hints. I barely picked it up. Thanks for the medicine tip…I’ll definitely try it.
Julie - at least I am not alone. Don’t let my mom hear that it might be specifically Sulphur Springs.
Way to go, Julie!! It MUST be Sulphur Springs. Now I really know Brian needs to get back CLOSER to his MOTHER.
Trust me. It’s Texas (I’m in Ft. Worth and my allergies are insane!)
You seemed to not have any allergy problems when Lindsay and I were there in SS. Maybe you just need to be around the Norsworthy’s more?
i think the smart to say would be… it is allergy season and my little sister has asthema and like a ton of allergies and when we lived in tennessee she was much much worse. she barely has to take medecine anymore.
Amen Luke. Make it happen.
Did you hear that Mom?!? Emalee Mac (one of my amazing youth group girls) says that Tennessee is allergy central. Let the controversy begin.