Senseless Sunday Sarcasm : Oh-pine.
Every year they attack.
The pine pollen mini-monsters.
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Those tiny little things carried by the wind…
….infiltrating my nostrils…
….traveling down the tracheal toilet, and then…
….lodging into my larynx.
When the Florida winter is warmer, they attack in February. If winter is colder, they’re pounding away at my sinuses by mid-March.
Some years, it’s not bad — a sniffle and a sneeze, perhaps a bit of wheeze.
This year? They waited until the time I have my heaviest workload and then…THEN the spirit of wronged pine trees past attacked with a vengeance.
I’ve never killed a pine tree…that I remember.
Perhaps once…or twice…I might have run over a sapling trying to grow in the middle of the dirt road leading from my house to the paved highway.
But not on purpose.
Why couldn’t I be allergic to something exotic, like Black Orchid pollen — or Venus fly trap pollen.
Ragweed sounds sinister, but Pine pollen is so…so…blah.
I think the goddess of whispering pine needles heard my plea — and she’s not amused. My ears are stuffing up and the helium head is filling with concrete.
Who knew that pine trees could be this vindictive?
I am also allergic to pollen. We have so much in South AFrica and its all year around. This year, due to all the heavy rain, we have even more than usual and I’ve had a horrible tickle in my throat and a cough for weeks now.
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My heart goes out to you. As you have experienced, some years, months, and days are worse than others.
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I am sorry you go though this every year.
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Sarcasm is so cathartic. When I write about the problem, it puts things into perspective. I have a friend who is going through a similar allergy and she didn’t know what to call it. Feels great to help out a friend.
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I’m allergic to pollen–especially oak. When I lived on the coast, it usually hit in March. Since I’ve relocated to the mid-south, it will probably hit me later. Mine affects sinuses. My eyes itch, burn like they are on fire for about three weeks.
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That’s the problem leading to laryngitis. The sinuses fight the invader and while it’s draining, it affects the larynx.
As you well know, it can be very irritating.
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I have two mungo pines (Japanese pines) in my front yard–talk about the pollen! Achoo!
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I can relate.
You know it’s going to be a bad pollen season when it’s so thick you have to wash your car first to see out the windows.
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So, hay fever? Your lucky its not asthma. There was an asthma storm in Melbourne 4 years ago. People died. Like, lots. I discovered i did not grow out of asthma as i thought. Cheers,H
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