So just when I thought things coudn't get worse...

Wednesday night, I'm at home watching TV, drinking some tea, and my head starts to itch...and then my arms..and then my back...and so on and so on until I'm a scratching machine! I attributed it to our radiators now being on making the air extremely dry and in turn making my skin even more dry. I shower and lotion up and feeling much better, go right to sleep.

Fast forward to 3:20 in the morning. I am awoken by extreme itching everywhere. I feel like I've been attacked by the poison ivy monster. So I get up and walk into the bathroom to have a look and I am COVERED in this terrible rash! My skin has welted up everywhere including my eyes so obviously...I'm freaking out. I''m up for about an hour and a half researching online but to no avail, so I decide I'm probably not dying and I might as well just try to sleep.

I'm up by 7:30 the next morning and the rash is still there but has subsided quite a bit. By 12:30 that day, I find myself in the doctor's office. She tells me that I've had an allergic reaction to something- what that something is, we're not sure. The only new thing I had that night was that darn tea from a nearby cafe. I've decided it was the culprit because it had about 8 herbs and whatnot in it like hibiscus and rose hips and other unusual things.

My new pal, the rash and his friend itchy are now gone, but man! I am trying to get better here folks! I've got a wedding to go to this weekend in the big MO. My stupid cold is still hanging on-so lovely- and I need it to be gone pronto! We're getting ready to hit the open road here in about 45 minutes. It's a camping wedding and you know what that means...SMORES!

Have a wonderful and rashless weekend everybody!

-listening to 23 by Jimmy Eat World