Hi! Today I spent the better half of today in a medical clinic waiting to be seen, only to be told that I may have had hives (which I guess is similar to a rash or something), and the hives may have been caused by me washing my sheets with this laundry detergent! Who would've thought being clean can cause an allergic reaction! lol
This has been happening for the past four days. I was okay the first time it happened and I was like "Oh, a bug must have bit me in my sleep." because it went away. Then the next day came and it was on my legs. Eventually my mom's comments of "something's eating you up at night" worried me lol and my mom tried to avoid contact with me because she thought it was bed bugs. No bugs! I thoroughly checked my room and room is pretty much clean for the most part. I vacuum often, but I vacuumed my mattress using the hose that comes with it. I took the cover off of my mattress and washed that.
When it finally was told that I could be reacting negatively to something new I used, I boiled it down to the detergent, or the new body wash I got for Christmas. So I'm rewashing my linen with new dye free detergent. It's a shame, because I washed my clothes with the detergent that may have caused the problem. I'm wearing some now! Lol So what I'll do is see if I break out again, if I change my clothes. If so I have to rewash everything! *sighs*
To the wait. I spent four hours waiting just for the doctor to tell me this. But because this ER allows walk-ins, they go by a case-by-case basis, meaning the most severe cases go first. You know, I was surprised to see so many people wearing face mask! But it made me feel a bit happy because they cared about their health, especially considering the outbreak of influenza recently. I'm glad people heeded the warning.
While I waited I continued reading a novel I received from Christmas called The Darkest Minds. It's okay now, but it was better at the start. Anyway, it kept be busy for the most part. The main issue is that I woke up kind of annoyed because I had broke out all on my legs and I had assumed some spiders got a hope to me. So I cleaned my skin, grabbed so fresh linen and moved to another room to resume my sleep. I woke up at 1 in the afternoon, and reheated my coffee from yesterday and grabbed a quick breakfast snack because I wasn't too hungry. Only to find out that Walgreen's clinic would close at four.
I left the house around 3:20-ish, and finally made it back home at 8 p.m. I just ate! I had only one meal today because I only nibbled on my breakfast and took a few sips of my coffee....
This sounds like I'm writing a book hahaha "She then grabs her cup and realized there's no coffee left" doesn't it sound like something like this? lol
So 2018 is off to an interesting year. I guess it's good to experience new things, but I don't know if I should say that in this situation. I guess I'm happy that it isn't anything too serious. I'm not sure exactly what in the ingredients caused the reaction, but I guess we'll see. I still have to boil it down to see if it's actually the detergent that caused it and not my body wash.
They gave me a paper booklet with a lot of information about different kinds of allergies! I was happy for that! It's good to learn new things.
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