Spring can be Tough!

I Love Springtime!!

Even through the allergy tears, Springtime means all good things. Its longer days of sunshine, blue skies, and white billowy clouds bring a promise of all good things to come. Visions of the beach, picnics, and gathering of friends fill my thoughts with happy memories of years past. Just wearing fewer layers of clothes is great each day. I must sit out to get a minimum of 10-20 min of sunshine a day! The buds on the trees seem to pop overnight. It’s all beauty, magic, and awe.

But, each Spring also meant the eyes would tear, the sneezing would start, and I would never feel 100%. I remember doing art shows where I had a throbbing headache all week-end due to the allergies that year. We’d spray down the house, get rid of carpets, and change the clothes detergent to super mild. I cut out dairy and wheat, just to see if it helped. For the past few years it’s been one tablet after another, just to get through the day and night.

Recently my daughter, who inherited the same symptoms, was prescribed something by her doctor that seems to be a miracle drug: a nose spray fluticasone propionate. I’ve never been one to call anything a miracle drug, but so far, so good. I’ve been to blooming neighborhoods over the last few weeks without a symptom. I did sneeze once today, and it felt strange. I feel as though I have a new lease on life! This is something I’ve lived with since 4th grade. Every Spring brought on the triggers, in the past.

So I just want to say, never give up!! Never settle thinking how you’ve been all your life is how you will be from now on! You never know what wonderful miracle is waiting to come your way. Be confident each day is perfect, be open to healing and new trends, and enjoy it all. And now be like me and take a really deep breath out in that sunshine!