Good morning!
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It's cold and I have stuff to do.
But it's 12 o'clock.
And I am still in bed. Chronic pain life. And I didn't do my meds last night. So I'm
itchy. I should know better.
[Upbeat background music]
[Door opens]
[Door loudly clicks shut]
[Door slams]
I just got back in. My face hurts. My face hurts SO much.
Um, I... I was out a little bit too long. Definitely a lot too long. Um. Yeah, Ow. It
hurts like... there. So, all of my sinuses in my forehead, and under there. So I'm gonna
make a hot drink, probably tea, oh I'm starting to steam up. Beautiful. I'm gonna make a hot
drink, take some ibuprofen. Which I'm also allergic to, so... I'm going to take antihistamine,
then some ibuprofen, and see if that helps. Fingers crossed, because I hate face pain.
So... I just got back in. and... Oh, my face still hurts. [laughs] Yeah I stayed out way
too long. My own fault, completely my own fault. I really should know better by now.
But basically, the only part of my face that really isn't covered... Well I didn't wear
a hat, that might've helped. But this part of my face... Don't want to spill my- I've
got a hot coffee on my lap to warm me up. But where this goes, everything's kind of
covered up, apart from my forehead and the bridge of my nose. So where my sinuses can
get... a bit cold, like. i dunno. It HURTS so much! The face pain, oh my god, the face
pain. So yeah, I went out, did my errands, came back, took an antihistamine, waited about
20 minutes, took two ibuprofen, my face still hurts. But I have coffee, coffee to breathe
in. Um, and I've taken off my medical alert bracelet. Because if you stick me with a cold
IV. No. Don't. Just don't. Just don't. There is no if. Just don't. But it has a little
kind of- will you be able to see that?
So this just kind of goes to show that you can, it's definitely not a case of "just put
a jumper on". Cos I can do everything [bracelet drops on the floor] oops. I can do everything
possible to minimise having a reaction. So I can go out with the full face mask on, even
if I've got a hat, I can dress up, I can have four pairs of socks on, I can have thermal
underwear on, I can have all of the layers in the world on, and there will still be one
part of me that will just be like "nope, not today" and then I have to take extra antihistamines.
I could even do that, I could even prep with extra antihistamines, take some like precautionary
puffs on my inhaler, I could do all of that, and I'm still gonna come home and there's
gonna be some part of me that has reacted to the cold. So, putting a jumper on, putting
literally everything I own on- hmm, maybe, maybe. But it's always there, and it's always
going to cause a problem if it can. There's not really that much I can do about it. I
can kind of make it manageable, a little bit, and I can make it to a point where I don't
have like all the skin reactions, I'm not itchy everywhere, and I can minimise the symptoms
to like, the face pain that I hate so much. But I can't stop it. Maybe in the future.
Maybe there'll be more treatment options offered to me, that I will gladly take. I'll give
it a go. I'll do- I'll try anything once for this, because it's the bane of my life. Like,
I just want to go outside without my face hurting. So... That's been my day. How has
your day been? Warm I hope! But, yeah I'm gonna go and lie down, and see if my face
pain goes away. Because I'm not gonna lie, I have taken a lot of antihistamines because
I'm also allergic to ibuprofen. [tongue clicks] NERFed. So I'm- I'm high as a kite right now.
So I'm gonna go and lie down and just-
It's editing Max here! Apparently I was tripping so many balls that I just [sigh] stopped talking.
Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, all that jazz. I will be filming more vlogs
like this, but not- I'm gonna do it when I'm DOING something. So we've done the errands,
so there will be- probably won't be another errand vlog unless I do spectacular errands.
Or anything drastic changes. But I have many plans for many allergy based videos. Including
food, alternatives to food, how to keep warm, some cold urticaria must haves, there's a
whole lot of stuff, so subscribe [clicks fingers]. Valuable lessons have also been learned about
filming on my phone. So, hopefully, it will all be done on this beautiful camera, so that
the audio doesn't make me want to cry. What do I know, I'm deaf I cant hear it anyway.
But I know you guys can! So I apologise for that, and I'm learning. It's a journey.