Allergies in December? Those Buggers!

Forgive me for the following unseasonable posting. I've never needed braces, have eyes like a hawk and can't sympathize with yearly sneezers. I am a genetic blessing.

Until now. This past spring I would wake up, sneeze ten times, and need to excessively water my eyes with eye drops. Medicine? nah.. don't need it. Do you have allergies?? Who me?? No, I don't get allergies.

About a month ago I would wake up in the middle of the night, dying of thirst, with a scratchy throat. My eyes would itch. That same week my student described his allergic symptoms to be: thirst, itchy eyes, dry thoat. Some sort of pollen allergy.

Doh! After a year and a half of denying it, I threw in the towel.

Me too! I proclaimed. I have allergies!! It's miserable.

Apparently, my Japanese acquaintances told me that each body has its own limit for allergies. And once that limit is reached, your body starts exhibiting symptoms. At the age of 25 I started showing mine.

This fact seems common knowledge in Japan, but it was my first time to discover it. I will have to google further into this. Did anyone else know this?

I'm hoping that my body reached its limit on Japanese pollen, not American pollen. If it didn't, then maybe I need to tone down the "genetic blessing" rants.

BTW, how's everyone digg'n this template?? Not yet the right one??