Benedryl

I love benedryl. Remember what I said earlier about my shoes? Benedryl ranks right up there. In fact, as I’m writing this, I’m getting all sleepy from a big blue benedryl allergy sinus.
It’s allergy season. That is the season that starts in Sept and ends in late Aug. I’m allergic to everything, some things more than others, but still everything. As a kid, and into adulthood, everything that was wrong with my brother or I was one of two things: allergies, or we were growing. My mom is all of 5’2″ so I never understood how she knew what growing felt like, and when I asked her how she knew what growing felt like she would just tell me to shut up. Cut to 30 years old and my sitting in Dr. Awesome the Allergist’s office, and I tell him about this. He tells me that is a very dangerous assumption to make, though with me its probably right.

It’s just as well, breathing is Highly overrated. I play a game where I lay on my left side and all the drainage falls to that side and I can breath out of the right side. Then I roll over and feel it shift. I don’t know why it amuses me, but it does. Might have something to do with the large amounts of benedryl, really large amounts, like my liver will stage a coup.
The captain doesn’t have allergies. He says he does, and he will get the sniffles once in a while, but he doesn’t have benedryl stashed in his car, office, purse (not that he carries one), or in his nightstand which is steps away from the motherload in the bathroom. I have puffs and alka seltzer there too. Though sometime about 15 years ago they changed the flavor of alka seltzer and its much worse than it was. I actually LIKED the taste of it before. Keep in mind two things, 1) the main staple in my diet is drainage and 2) you have to have a strong taste to cut thru that film in your mouth.
I need to sleep now. I will curl up with my puffs plus. You think I kid, but the captain was very weirded out the first time I came to bed clutching a box of tissues like a teddy bear. That is my kind of security blanket.