And another thing

Another piece to my puzzle-self.

Cats. I am allergic to cats. Have been since late 1988/early 1989. And, as luck would have it, a number of people I love/love to spend time with, have cats.

Last Wednesday night I spent an overnight at a cat house. I medicated myself out of desperation that night and was out of it for two days (following being out of it before the medication, too...that's one of my reactions).

Then, Saturday, I spent the day at a cat house. I did not medicate myself. I was semi-out of it, but tend not to react strongly to my sister's cat.

This afternoon we went to B's house, another cat house.

Sometimes I am hyper vigilant about bringing cat hair/dander back into our house, but don't really have the energy to keep that up. So, I hug my cat people indiscriminately, ignore the cat hair/dander that tracks into my home via clothing and socks, I mostly am able to not think about the sheepskin insides of my slippers having cat stuff felted into them :-)

I am considering Vinny's suggestion of burning some cat fur and ingesting it as part of a tea. I would love to build a tolerance. I would love to thin out the cottony fuzziness of times like now in ways that I can.

In the meantime, I sniffle and snuffle and work harder to focus and attend than usual...