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Allergy SZN

I am allergic to freshly cut grass. And some other things… but I can’t avoid grass like I can avoid a Black-Eyed Susan.

As I am sitting here typing this, I can hear a lawnmower somewhere close to my house and soon I will start to sneeze and cough because I refuse to close my window on a nice 52-degree day. It is incredibly inconvenient for me normally, but now people will think my stupid allergy is going to kill them.

I don’t leave my house often… if I do it is for a walk around the neighborhood, I use a mask to cover my face and am fairly good at avoiding people. If I do see another human, I make sure I stay more than 6-10 feet away from them. Now, I can only imagine me walking by a house where someone decided to break out the lawnmower to break up the monotony of their day stuck inside and then will just give me the death glare as I start to hack up a lung and sneezing my brain out. It’s not my fault the pandemic decided to happen during springtime when nature decides to come back to life!!! I can’t control my allergies!!! I mean, I could take over the counter allergy meds but I have tried them in the past and they don’t really help so like why even try again?

(I do hope that we can develop a vaccine or something for COVID-19 and that the world can get back to some sense of normalcy soon. But we know it is the main issue plaguing the world so it is not insensitive to shed some light on the other minor struggles of society.)

So, to all those people out there with major spring allergies, I feel for you. It sucks normally but now is just a bit more a lot more exacerbated than a normal spring. We will get through this allergy sufferers! Don’t let allergy sneeze shaming keep you from sitting on your balcony or taking that properly socially distanced walk in your neighborhood. ✌
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