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Respiratory disaster area

I think the lung gods have it out for me today. It was already 90 degrees and humid when I tried to catch the bus at 8:00 am. The bus was late, and while I stood and waited there were not one, not two, but three guys on lawn mowers trying their very best to mow along the street before it gets up to 104 this afternoon. (I am highly allergic to grass.)

When I arrived at work there were more mowers, plus several construction dump trucks dumping dirt and moving it around. The dirt was all kicked up in the air so to get to my office building I had to walk through the dust storm.

I don’t have asthma “attacks” exactly. I don’t feel like I can’t breathe. I just get tired faster when stuff like this happens. There’s no pressure feeling in my chest or anything like that. I was already exhausted, but before I even got to the stairs that go up into my building, I was taking deep breaths.

Today at work I feel as though I’m in a battle to stay alert and awake. I just want a nap. Why am I so tired?? Is it the GI stuff? Is it that we’ve had a solid week of bad air days? Is it that I’m stressed out beyond belief and would somehow in my subconscious prefer to pull the covers up over my head and pretend the rest of the world didn’t exist?

I’m sick and tired of being tired! Somebody make it stop. My get up and go has gotten up and left.
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