I didn’t want to scare anybody! Something freakish happened to me this morning that I still don’t fully understand but it really changed the way I looked for about two hours! I was sitting in my rocking chair watching a TV show when my right eye started to water. I try to keep my fingers away from my eyes so I used my sleeve of a zip up jacket I was wearing to brush away the tears. (no I was not crying..My eyes tend to water a lot especially with allergies and headaches..i didn’t have a headache so I just assumed it was mild allergy symptoms…Boy was I wrong. I never have experienced allergies like I did today. Within minutes my right eye was almost completely swelled shut. I only had a small slit to see through and my left eye was working on catching up. Then all of a sudden my whole face started to itch…I thought I was going to go nuts. the last time I itched this bad was when i had my allergy test in High school. The determination I was allergic to everything in the state of PA except for cats. (the funny thing is I am allergic to cats and not to dogs but the test showed otherwise..lol) I remember digging my fingernails into the bed as I laid on my stomach waiting for the doctor to return to see the results…What torture The only thing I wanted to dig my nails into today was my face which i managed to refrain from doing to myself Praise the LORD!!!. I went to the bathroom to splash cold water on my face but what I saw when i turned on the light was scary. I looked as though I had Bells palsy (that’s where one side of your face becomes paralyzed and droops terribly). My right side of my face was all swollen and droopy. I looked like I was 60! I freaked! I called hubby to let him know what was going on! He was in the middle of something and that he would call back in 15 minutes. So I took an allergy pill which I prayed would work faster than normal..And then I took a shower. by this point my right arm was itching furiously as well. I am pretty sure that there was something on the jacket that caused this issue ! The problem is that once histamines start flying through your body you can have an allergic reaction anywhere so I was praying that all would work together and quickly…So after my shower my face was still itching quite a bit but some of the swelling had begun to subside! I used some astringent on my face to help clean away any missed residue. However I looked as though I had been punched my eye was still so swollen. Even the top eye lid was swollen. Now as I sit here writing this I have almost returned to normal. The jacket is in the washing machine as we speak and hopefully makeup will now cover my darkened eyes! But you wouldn’t have wanted to see it!
