Allergies

I've been experience terribly, horrendously itchy ear the past few days, and before that I had had mild pain in my ears. Actually, the mild pain had been a few weeks ago, but it seemed to go away after we treated it at home. In the past week the itching started, and the past few nights it was so bad I couldn't sleep. The itching seems all through my ears into my throat, but it's particularly bad in the left ear. On the left side of my throat there's been a white spot (we were worried it was strep at first, but it never changed and hardly even hurt), so we wondered if that was connected to my ears. My left ear started stinging a little bit too, along with the itching, so we decided it was time to go to the doctor.
After asking lots of questions and checking things out, the NP told me that I have allergies. The reason it's affecting me the way it is due to a cold I had not too long ago. Apparently there's liquid stuck in my eustachion tubes, that came from having a cold, and the allergies are making it trapped in there. The spot on my throat seems to be completely unrelated; it's just some viral thing in my tonsils.

The NP did ask if we have any pets, and I said that yes, we have dogs. She asked if any of them ever go into my room, and I told her that my puppy always sleeps in my bed at night. So, that could be a slight contributing factor, therefore I need to be sure to keep my room dusted and swept.

But on the upside, today had fantastic weather! I'm getting excited for spring! My bedroom window is currently open, letting in some of the nice, fresh 64 degree air.

Our Trip to Wisconsin

The trip to Wisconsin was a fun one, as usual (Wisconsin can't be un-fun, it's impossible).
We helped with a book swap and moved a lot of girl scout cookies! Stefanie, our dear friend and hostess, is a girl scout leader and her cookie shipment came in on Saturday, so we helped organize the cookies and break up the orders.

I had my Duck bake on Saturday, we made approximately 152 meat pies. I forgot to take pictures of them, so I'll have to do so next time. I mostly rolled and sliced dough, and then watched and played with the very rambunctious Timothy.
My character's occupation this year is the nurse/nanny to Timothy. My director and his wife are very pleased with this occupation choice as it will help them quite a bit! Especially since they have a new baby. It will not be a difficult job at all, Timothy is my best friend and it will be fun watching him! At the Duck bake he used pillows to build a fort and then tried to find a blanket for the roof, but there was no blankets that were big enough, so I promised to bring some old sheets and blankets to BAPA (Bristol Academy of Performing Arts) and when I have free time I'll help Timothy build one awesome blanket fort!

After the Duck bake I went back to Stefanie's house and looked over some of the books; I found a few that I picked out. In fact, my Mom found a lot too, so we ended up bringing more books home than we meant to! But that's the way it is with books.
After the book swap we were able to visit with friends for a while and had an all around fun evening. Although I seemed to be getting a cold. I was fine when we left home, but once we were at Stefanie's house I got all sniffly. We thought it might be cat allergies, but on Saturday evening I started having a little cough and a scratchy throat. Now that I'm home I still have a cough, but my stuffy, itchy nose and itchy eyes are all better, so it may have been part cat allergies and part cold. I guess we'll find out the next time I'm around a cat!
Anyway, we got home on Sunday, back to boring ol' Custer Park.