“Thanks for making me come here” – what Sarah said to me on the phone from rehab. Nicest words I’ve heard anyone say to me in a while.
I haven’t played much (or basically any) poker since the last time I wrote. I spent pretty much all last week running errands with Sarah so that she could go to rehab. She agreed to go for one month and then said she would re-eval after the month is over. I really want her to stay for two or three months, but I sadly don’t think she will. I guess I will start hoping that one month does the trick.
I haven’t been sleeping well lately. At first I thought it was due to the stress of Sarah’s problems, but I also figured out another possible source of the problem.
I have really bad seasonal allergies. It’s around one week before allergy season gets started for me, and I’ve read that taking antihistimines before symptoms start is the most effective way of combating the problems. I usually take Reactine (cetirizine or Zyrtec in the states) but I am trying to find another drug that helps me since I’m saving cetirizine for when my allergies get REALLY bad in a month or two. I’d take cetirizine daily for 7 months if I could, but the body builds a tolerance after around 3 months. Both Loratadine (Claritin in Canada) and Desloratadine (Aerius) are useless to me, unfortunately. I decided to give Fexofenadine (Allegra) a try for the first time a few days ago.
I haven’t slept well for several nights. I keep waking up multiple times during the night, usually around 6 or 7 times. This morning I finally realized what the problem might be and went back and had a look: every day I took the drug I also had trouble sleeping, and they both started at the exact same time.
I’d been taking Allegra at night, so I’m gonna skip tonight and see if it helps sleeping. If so, I’m gonna try taking it in the morning instead and see if that helps. If not, I guess I can’t take this particular antihistimine. I’m running out of drugs to try! And I really don’t wanna get allergy shots cuz I’m scared of needles 😛
/boring post about allergy drugs, wtf. Sorry, I’ll try to talk about poker next time!
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