Backyard picnic asthma attack

Well, I didn't see that one coming. 

 

We were having a great garden party on Mother's Day, we had worked all day Saturday getting the yard cleaned up and it looked beautiful.

The longer I sat outside on the patio, the more I sneezed and wheezed. I didn't want to get up and leave our guests, so I just visited with them. 

 

How bad can allergies get, right?!

Well, I finally gave up and went in the house, but by then it was too late. We still had guests at our home, so I couldn't hop in the shower. (Which is what I normally would have done). 

 

So, I changed my clothes, washed my face with soap and water and ran a wet was cloth over my hair to try to capture some of the pollen.

But it was too little, too late. I started the lovely 'asthma cough' and ended up staggering over to my purse for my inhaler.

 

Happy Mother's Day! Gotta love my inhaler though, it's worth EVERY penny.

I still felt lousy after that, so I ended up taking a nap (isn't that what we moms are allowed to do on Mother's Day?)

Today, I have a sporadic cough and my lungs feel terrible, they are still trying to recover from yesterday. I know that it will take a while to get the swelling down in my lungs. 

 

And my allergy medicine is making me feel like I am on slow speed.

Isn't life with allergies and asthma fun? Always unpredictible, always at the worst time.