In the church office today, Linda, the church secretary, mentioned that her allergies are bad.<\/p>\n
“Mine too,” I said. “My eyes are itchy.”<\/p>\n
“I know,” she said. “My eyes are really bad.”<\/p>\n
“I just want to claw my eyes out,” I said. Which will sound disgusting, unless you too suffer from allergies in which case you’ll fully understand why I said that.<\/p>\n
“Yup,” said Linda, “claw them out, put ’em in a glass of water, and rinse ’em off. That would be great. I’m using my eye drops all the time. I wonder what’s causing it, though. Usually when we get the first snow, that’s the end of allergies. But not this year.”<\/p>\n
“Maybe mold?” I said. Mold is a huge problem in old buildings in New Bedford, because the climate is so damp. “Except that we live in a brand new building with no mold at all, and my eyes have been itching at home, too.”<\/p>\n
“Well, I noticed a lot of the trees still have leaves on them,” said Linda.<\/p>\n
“Leaf mold?” I said.<\/p>\n
“I’ll bet that’s it,” she said.<\/p>\n
“You know,” I said, “I thought I’ve had some kind of lingering cold for the past month, but I’ll bet it’s allergies. Itchy eyes, congestion,…”<\/p>\n
“…Headaches, tired all the time, fuzzy thinking. Yup, sounds like allergies, doesn’t it?” Linda said. “We need a good cold snap to put an end to this.”<\/p>\n
I’ve never had allergies in the winter before. This may be a small but unpleasant side effect of global climate change:– perhaps allergy sufferers will no longer be able to count on respite from allergies in the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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