Allergic To Work?!

Around noon, I was just sitting at work, processing, like normal. Well, not exactly processing. Had been doing that shortly before but Amanda was working the order so she'd brought one of them out to me and I'd checked them in & put that flat away already actually. She'd just brought me the stack of Special Orders to start calling when...out of nowhere...my eyes started itching & burning. She came up to get something shortly after, looked at me & was like "OMG!" I told her they were bothering me but I hadn't seen them for myself yet. I went to look...

This didn't capture the worst of it! Before it was over, both eyes were blood red & completely swollen. It felt like my entire face was swollen & numb, my ears were burning & I felt like I had a temperature. I took some of my allergy pills -- not thinking -- just shortly before, I'd taken some Excedrin & Ibuprofen (I will take a cocktail of these 3 meds at night & it makes me sleepy enough to fall asleep, most of the time!). I used some of Cindy's Visine & that started easing the itching & burning slowly. Cindy offered to let me go home cuz I looked so pitiful. And it was painful, too! Not to mention, I couldn't see very well. She made a funny, too...said I was gonna scare the customers!! ;-p Oh, come on...as if I don't already?!?! *giggles* By 2, I'd realized what I'd done with the medicine cocktail...cuz I was getting groggy. *sighs* Ended up leaving at 2:30.

Napped from 3:30-6. I feel normal at this point. Eyes look normal again, too. This has happened a couple of times before...when I've been processing, no less. Never to this degree though! It was really bizarre!! Hmm...guess I'm allergic to work! :D

So now...dinner...& gotta get the newsletter sent out & then a movie. :-) I'm closing tomorrow.