I did the plasma donation thingy the other day, and it was also time for the yearly physical that the good folks at Canadian Blood Services put you through. It’s pretty low key, that is there’s not a whole lot to it. Anyway, it’s the perfect opportunity to ask the Doc anything that might be on your mind - so I did. I brought up my allergy problem that seemed to hit me hard with what I figured out on my own to be a severe case of hives. Don tipped me off to it - and after doing the ‘online google self-medical assessment’, I decided that my rash looked more like hives than anything else.
I told the Doc this and he said it could be triggered by many different things - even something like stress! Wow. What if that’s the case? What if I’m one of those people who, when they run themselves down, break out in hives? Ahhhhhh! That’s weird. Anyway, I’m going to submit myself to a full allergy test to see what comes up. I know there’ll be a seasonal trigger in there as I developed some springtime allergies about 7 years ago now. What else might come up …hard to say. I haven’t been able to pin anything down food wise, so I guess it’s a wait and see type thing.
As for the stress - well, I’m thinking that won’t be the case. I hope so at least. I do lead a pretty stress-free life. Yeah, I do get tired and develop bad sleeping patterns for weeks or so at a time …but that’s not a stress thing. Is it?
I think I need a year off to rest for a while. That’d be sweet. 
