I am getting close to graduating, and I have been trying to find good jobs. I got offered a pretty good opportunity (its the best one I have bene able to find), but there is an issue. Its doing research, but before I can have the job, I need to be an intern (paid) with them for 6 to 9 months. Its a rules thing, and also to make sure I am a good match and I like working there. Intern stuff is mainly being a lab tech. The issue I have is that even though I wont be working directly with animals, I will be near them a lot. I told them about my allergies, and that's why I don't have to actually work with them. So I am wondering what to do - I am worried that my allergies might be so bad that I can't work well, and then they aren't going to want me anymore. Of course I am also worried about being exposed to allergens constantly for so long. The thing is, its a really good opportunity, and once the internship is over I won't have to be around the animals.
I got to thinking about mean things people have said to me about my allergies. Some I wasn't meant to hear, and some I think were misguided attempts to be nice. It got to bugging me lately, so I wanted to list some of the things that have been said within the last week or so:
You'd be very attractive if it wasn't for your allergies
Does she do anything else besides sneeze?
Are you sure its allergies? You might be sick, and I don't want to catch anything
Maybe its all in your head?
Your allergies are being very disruptive
If you would blow your nose your allergies wouldn't be so bad
I also hate when I get 'advice' like the last one, but they don't seem to understand if I tell them I tried/it doesn't work, they should believe me and not argue with me. Ugh!
I haven't gotten any new questions. I am wondering if my last post wasn't very interesting? please feel free to comment and to contact me!
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Sunday, May 29, 2016
Monday, November 25, 2013
Catching up with a short post and Q+A
Ok, I know I have been bad and not posted in a very long time. I had been really busy and I kept putting it off. I finally got a bit of motivation to make a post.
Now that pollen is gone, my allergies aren't as bad. I do have to deal a bit with dust and stuff moving around for heating systems coming back on on the dryness that it can create, but its not as bad as dealing with pollen.
I am not sure what other update to give right now, so i will go into 2 questions I got:
Q:Have you ever considered moving to a different climate? For example I'm in Seattle and I know of someone who moved from here to Medford, OR for relief from sinus issues. Would a drier, desert-like climate help? Would there be less triggers? Or would the air conditioning bother your allergies?
A: I have looked into that and I have been told that it doesn't really work, and if it does it would only be for a short time, as new triggers would start to bother me. I have moved from the northwest to the northeast and i didn't see any difference. A/C I don't think bothers my allergies in and of itself, but they are prone to mold and I am pretty allergic to mold. I once stayed somewhere and my allergies we going really bad and it took us a while to realize it was a very old A/C unit that hadn't been kept up that well that was causing much of my problems.
Q:One of the things I find most awkward about sneezing repeatedly is how people feel the need to say 'bless you'. I wish that courtesy did not even exist, I wish sneezing was like coughing. When people bless me I feel like I can't even say thank you in between sneezes and it's even more awkward when they keep saying it after every few sneezes, and even more awkward when they finally give up and I'm still sneezing! It just makes me more embarrassed than I already am. Do you like people to acknowledge your sneezes with a 'bless you'?
A: I hate the bless you thing so much! It just draws more attention to all my sneezing, and I end up feeling bad because most people just eventually give up blessing me in the middle of my fits. Whats worse is when they switch from blessing to things like 'wow are you ever gonna stop' or 'I blessed you enough, you can stop now' or 'I can't bless you that much', and other weird or annoying things.
I know I have posted about this before, but answering the last question reminds me of all the crazy things people say to me. Some makes me feel really embarrassed, some upset me, some make me feel mad. Some people are actually pretty nice and helpful but sometimes they are the total opposite, either on accident or on purpose. Some of the worst stuff I have heard it people telling me: I am doing it just to get attention; my allergies ruin my looks; and even a few times people have gotten upset that they were trying to have a conversation with me when my allergies were really bad and I wasn't answering them.
Ok, I didn't want to leave off on a depressing note! So, I'll say my allergies are being a bit better because of the season, and in a few days I will have a few days off :)
As usual, please read and share and ask me more questions and feel free to contact me to chat if you want to! Happy TG!
Now that pollen is gone, my allergies aren't as bad. I do have to deal a bit with dust and stuff moving around for heating systems coming back on on the dryness that it can create, but its not as bad as dealing with pollen.
I am not sure what other update to give right now, so i will go into 2 questions I got:
Q:Have you ever considered moving to a different climate? For example I'm in Seattle and I know of someone who moved from here to Medford, OR for relief from sinus issues. Would a drier, desert-like climate help? Would there be less triggers? Or would the air conditioning bother your allergies?
A: I have looked into that and I have been told that it doesn't really work, and if it does it would only be for a short time, as new triggers would start to bother me. I have moved from the northwest to the northeast and i didn't see any difference. A/C I don't think bothers my allergies in and of itself, but they are prone to mold and I am pretty allergic to mold. I once stayed somewhere and my allergies we going really bad and it took us a while to realize it was a very old A/C unit that hadn't been kept up that well that was causing much of my problems.
Q:One of the things I find most awkward about sneezing repeatedly is how people feel the need to say 'bless you'. I wish that courtesy did not even exist, I wish sneezing was like coughing. When people bless me I feel like I can't even say thank you in between sneezes and it's even more awkward when they keep saying it after every few sneezes, and even more awkward when they finally give up and I'm still sneezing! It just makes me more embarrassed than I already am. Do you like people to acknowledge your sneezes with a 'bless you'?
A: I hate the bless you thing so much! It just draws more attention to all my sneezing, and I end up feeling bad because most people just eventually give up blessing me in the middle of my fits. Whats worse is when they switch from blessing to things like 'wow are you ever gonna stop' or 'I blessed you enough, you can stop now' or 'I can't bless you that much', and other weird or annoying things.
I know I have posted about this before, but answering the last question reminds me of all the crazy things people say to me. Some makes me feel really embarrassed, some upset me, some make me feel mad. Some people are actually pretty nice and helpful but sometimes they are the total opposite, either on accident or on purpose. Some of the worst stuff I have heard it people telling me: I am doing it just to get attention; my allergies ruin my looks; and even a few times people have gotten upset that they were trying to have a conversation with me when my allergies were really bad and I wasn't answering them.
Ok, I didn't want to leave off on a depressing note! So, I'll say my allergies are being a bit better because of the season, and in a few days I will have a few days off :)
As usual, please read and share and ask me more questions and feel free to contact me to chat if you want to! Happy TG!
Friday, November 11, 2011
November and closets and people oh my.
I was hoping to get more people reading/commenting/discussing. Come on people! :P
School is still going ok, nothing weird or bizarre or too lame, or even exiting to talk about though.
On the allergy-front, I have been having to go through all my stuff in my closets and its a real chore. The dust and whatever makes my allergies go crazy. I have been trying to do a bit each day, but I am not able to spend much time each day cause my allergies get too bad and the time that I do spend is mostly spent dealing with my allergies instead of going through my stuff. :( I need a maid!
I also have a friend, Mel, who is generally a pretty cool person and she is really nice to me. BUT she is one of those people who tries to be helpful but ends up being annoying/or making things worse. Like she has very mild hay fever (she MIGHT need meds a few times in the fall and thats it), but she keeps acting like her allergies are as bad as mine and tries to give me all this advice and/or get me to do things that even though they might be helpful for her is just so not helpful for me. She gets on my nerves sometimes, but otherwise she is a really cool person so I don't want to be mean to her.
Anyway, I hope I can get my closets done by the end of the weekend and maybe even have time, and feel good enough, to actually have some fun!
School is still going ok, nothing weird or bizarre or too lame, or even exiting to talk about though.
On the allergy-front, I have been having to go through all my stuff in my closets and its a real chore. The dust and whatever makes my allergies go crazy. I have been trying to do a bit each day, but I am not able to spend much time each day cause my allergies get too bad and the time that I do spend is mostly spent dealing with my allergies instead of going through my stuff. :( I need a maid!
I also have a friend, Mel, who is generally a pretty cool person and she is really nice to me. BUT she is one of those people who tries to be helpful but ends up being annoying/or making things worse. Like she has very mild hay fever (she MIGHT need meds a few times in the fall and thats it), but she keeps acting like her allergies are as bad as mine and tries to give me all this advice and/or get me to do things that even though they might be helpful for her is just so not helpful for me. She gets on my nerves sometimes, but otherwise she is a really cool person so I don't want to be mean to her.
Anyway, I hope I can get my closets done by the end of the weekend and maybe even have time, and feel good enough, to actually have some fun!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
People can be mean
I had mentioned in an earlier post about people being mean and I think someone asked for me to write more about it. I am going to post here a few of my experiences with people who suck and/or don't really seem to care about other people.
I can split these people into 3 categories. Some who think they are being funny and say stuff in public areas, some who just don't care/understand and are mean because of that, and some who are just deliberately mean.
Sometimes I would hate the public people the most because it can feel the most embarrassing. Many times in high school, but also some in college or in other public places where many people are around, some would yell out stuff. I would start sneezing and after a number of sneezes, people would laugh, and someone would yell "BLESS YOU!" loudly many times. Some people might yell "why are you sneezing so much?", or "OMG! Just stop!", or other things like that. I hate all the attention that draws to me. The worst was sometimes at lunch in HS, I wold have a very long fit and the lunchroom would start to get all quiet because everyone was listening to me and looking at me and laughing. Sometimes I really wanted to cry from embarrassment. I can deal with it better now. I do run off to the bathroom often when I start having a fit in public. I tend to miss parts of many movies.
I have had to deal with many people who just didn't care. I would go to someones house and they had an animal that I was allergic to, or just something in the house would set me off. They say that I will get used to it in a bit, or my allergies would calm down, or that I was making too big a deal. If I didn't have a ride sometimes I would sit there feeling and looking miserable and not be able to get away. I also knew some people who didn't believe I was allergic to something or think that maybe it was all in my head. They hid the animal, or flowers or whatever before I came over. My allergies would get worse and worse and I had no idea why. Then they say "Oh, we didn't think you were really allergic to it"
There were a few people who deliberately set off my allergies because they wanted to upset me or mess something up for me, or I guess they were just plain mean. The main one was someone in HS who just really hated my guts. She blamed me for stuff that wasn't even my fault and kept trying to get back at me. She discovered she could set off my allergies at really bad times for me. I didn't find this all out until much later. Once she did it before I was going to meet up with a guy I was interested in. My allergies got so bad that it screwed it all up. One time she stole the tissue box out of my backpack and in class when I started having a bad sneezing fit I couldn't find them and I had to keep sneezing into my hands and I couldn't deal with the snottiness and dripping and everything and that was really horrible and embarrassing! Another time she got a hold of my tissue box and put dust or pollen or something all around in there. Of course I was using the tissues and not knowing so I kept getting worse and worse all day and I had no clue why. That one was really miserable!
I have had people tell me my allergies were bothering them, my sneezing was a disruption, that I should be able to control them better, or that I was deliberately exaggerating them. They all really suck! I don't get why people have to be like that. Its not as bad as it was in high school, but I think some people just don't get it. I wish they would.
I can split these people into 3 categories. Some who think they are being funny and say stuff in public areas, some who just don't care/understand and are mean because of that, and some who are just deliberately mean.
Sometimes I would hate the public people the most because it can feel the most embarrassing. Many times in high school, but also some in college or in other public places where many people are around, some would yell out stuff. I would start sneezing and after a number of sneezes, people would laugh, and someone would yell "BLESS YOU!" loudly many times. Some people might yell "why are you sneezing so much?", or "OMG! Just stop!", or other things like that. I hate all the attention that draws to me. The worst was sometimes at lunch in HS, I wold have a very long fit and the lunchroom would start to get all quiet because everyone was listening to me and looking at me and laughing. Sometimes I really wanted to cry from embarrassment. I can deal with it better now. I do run off to the bathroom often when I start having a fit in public. I tend to miss parts of many movies.
I have had to deal with many people who just didn't care. I would go to someones house and they had an animal that I was allergic to, or just something in the house would set me off. They say that I will get used to it in a bit, or my allergies would calm down, or that I was making too big a deal. If I didn't have a ride sometimes I would sit there feeling and looking miserable and not be able to get away. I also knew some people who didn't believe I was allergic to something or think that maybe it was all in my head. They hid the animal, or flowers or whatever before I came over. My allergies would get worse and worse and I had no idea why. Then they say "Oh, we didn't think you were really allergic to it"
There were a few people who deliberately set off my allergies because they wanted to upset me or mess something up for me, or I guess they were just plain mean. The main one was someone in HS who just really hated my guts. She blamed me for stuff that wasn't even my fault and kept trying to get back at me. She discovered she could set off my allergies at really bad times for me. I didn't find this all out until much later. Once she did it before I was going to meet up with a guy I was interested in. My allergies got so bad that it screwed it all up. One time she stole the tissue box out of my backpack and in class when I started having a bad sneezing fit I couldn't find them and I had to keep sneezing into my hands and I couldn't deal with the snottiness and dripping and everything and that was really horrible and embarrassing! Another time she got a hold of my tissue box and put dust or pollen or something all around in there. Of course I was using the tissues and not knowing so I kept getting worse and worse all day and I had no clue why. That one was really miserable!
I have had people tell me my allergies were bothering them, my sneezing was a disruption, that I should be able to control them better, or that I was deliberately exaggerating them. They all really suck! I don't get why people have to be like that. Its not as bad as it was in high school, but I think some people just don't get it. I wish they would.
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