What doesn't kill me makes me cough!

It's still allergy season.  Fortunately, there's been a bit of rain lately to knock down some of the yellow ick floating around.  Still, I'm all sniffly and watery eyed.  It seemed a bit worse this weekend than normal, but my allergies can get really severe, so I really didn't think much about it.  My brother was in town, so I was pretty excited about that.  We went out to eat, saw a movie, and then had breakfast the following morning before he left.  It was a really good time!  Good enough that I really wasn't paying attention to what was going on with myself.  I was getting a sinus infection.

I get them at least once a year and always in the peak of allergy season.  Every time I get one, I think that it's just a "bad day" for my allergies....that goes on for a week.  I have all the usual symptoms of nasty allergies but it just never seems to end! 

Runny nose? Check! 
Sneezes? Check!
Watery Eye?  Check!! (yes, it's just one eye, oddly enough..the left one)
River of snot down the back of my throat? Check!

Now, several days later, I'm almost well.  I still feel kinda yick and tired, my left eye is actually chapped from so much wateryness, and I have my usual "post upper respiratory cough."  It's the cough that always seems to hit me and linger on for weeks on end.  I stopped going to my family doctor about it because....well, he's a piece of shit doctor!  I've been seeing him since I was a kid for this same problem and he always acts like it's nothing and it ALWAYS turns into a nightmare to get rid of.  Thank goodness for the nurse practitioners provided by my employer.  They at least listen and actually read my chart.  They're able to put "this happened last year...and the year before..and in the fall..and in the spring" into the realization of how this little show is going to progress.

The good side of it is that it's the spring infection.  It's never quite as bad where the cough is concerned because it's so humid in my part of the country.  Humidity is a cougher's friend!  Just a few days of sucking down the southeastern usa's swamp-like humid air and I'll be soothed back to my normal snuffly-sneezy goodness!

Huzzah!!  *hackcoughyak*