Asthma Attacks from Cornstalks and Hay

 

 

 

 

 

 

Halloween is over for another year, and as usual, my co-workers did an AMAZING job decorating our office. 

It's hard to come up with a different theme each year, and this year it was The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Each day when I would come back to the office, I would see something else they added. 

And true to Halloween and pumpkin patches, they brought in cornstalks and hay. It looked amazing, but I was instantly over powered by the smell of hay and cornstalks. And avoided the front office.

Within a few minutes, I had to use my inhaler. In fact, every morning for the past 3 days (since the cornstalks came), I have had to use my inhaler when I get to work. 

 

That's unusual for me. My asthma is usually well controlled.

 The cleaning crew walked in and the guy that usually vacuums for us stop dead in his tracks and looked at the floor. I shrugged my shoulders and told him it was just until Halloween. 

 I reassured him that my co-workers said they would clean it up. 

Since Halloween is over, I asked several of my co-workers if they could take the corn stalks out and throw them in the dumpster. 

Snoopy's house looks adorable, but I can't keep having asthma attacks every morning when I come to work. In fact, I am back in my office with my door shut and my fan blowing towards my door to try to keep the allergens out of my office.

Once again, asthma has to ruin things.

I told my co-workers that asthma has a habit of doing things like that. Where they aren't the least bit bothered by corn stalks or hay, my allergies and asthma are going crazy.

That's typical of asthma. I like give people the simplified version of asthma - that it's a "Drama Queen." For any of you that have teenagers, you know what I am talking about!

The technical term is "hyperresponsiveness and hypersensitivity." Which means that your body is overly sensitive to asthma triggers and your body over reacts.

It is what it is. It's a biological response in our bodies. We can't stop it from happening, but we can try to avoid things that set off our allergies and asthma. 

 I also try to "be part of the team", and didn't let anyone know that it was causing problems for me. But now that Halloween is over? OUT!!! 

I need those cornstalks and hay out of the office.

Anyone else having asthma attacks from cornstalks and hay?