{"id":691,"date":"2010-05-30T19:18:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/05\/the-never-ending-allergy-season.html"},"modified":"2010-05-30T19:18:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T19:18:57","slug":"the-never-ending-allergy-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/05\/the-never-ending-allergy-season.html","title":{"rendered":"The never-ending allergy season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what? It&#8217;s <i>still<\/i> allergy season for me. Last week things seemed to be improving, but I woke up this morning hit hard with the stuff. When I&#8217;m like that, it&#8217;s hard to get out of bed, so I kept hitting the alarm this morning, and we ran out of time to get to our usual parish for Divine Liturgy. We went to a closer one, with a later liturgy, and I had to sit down for much of it. I was dizzy and felt like a scarecrow, as if my insides were made of straw. I couldn&#8217;t even last through the end of announcements before having to go home. Crawled into bed and slept for four hours this afternoon.<br \/>\nI tried a neti pot for a while, which helped with the congestion, but not with the chronic fatigue. Julie asked if I thought I had mono or anything, but I said no, I can always tell when I wake up in the morning congested, that it&#8217;s going to be a day of fatigue. One of my readers recommended taking a mushroom supplement from Vitamin Shoppe, which he said was the only thing that helped with his severe allergies. I couldn&#8217;t find a Vitamin Shoppe around here, but today I ordered some of the stuff from the store online. I&#8217;m sick and tired of being sick and tired. You ask: <i>Idiot, why haven&#8217;t you gone to the doctor yet?<\/i> My answer to you is: mostly because I don&#8217;t want to go through the hassle yet of finding a new physicial here (read: I&#8217;m lazy), but also because I really, really don&#8217;t want to become dependent on drugs to endure allergy season. I keep thinking, &#8220;One more week, and it&#8217;ll be over.&#8221; It&#8217;s been five or six weeks for me, and it never seems to end. Is it possible that these allergies can last all summer? If yes, I&#8217;m really going to have to get over it, and go find a doctor. But first, I&#8217;m going to give the mushroom supplement a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what? It&#8217;s still allergy season for me. Last week things seemed to be improving, but I woke up this morning hit hard with the stuff. 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