Best weekend EV... oh wait... wrong weekend

So this weekend was a first... and not a very good one. See, I had my first ever allergic reaction, and it was a pretty nasty one. It started out on Friday with my being just a little blotchy. I wasn't worried... blotchy happens sometimes. So I went about my day and ended up in bed as usual.

Woke up Saturday and a little bit of my face was red and a bit puffy around the eyes, kinda like I'd been sleeping on it in a funny way. Again, no biggie.... slap on some make-up and scoot off to work. Have dinner, go to bed... yada, yada, yada....

Sunday I get up and know something is wrong right away. Head right over to the bathroom and see that almost all of my face has a red rash and a lot of it is swollen... as in swollen to the point where I can't fully open my eyes, but I can still see.

Now, being the kind of person I am, I get a shower and head to work. Why did I do that? Because I was the one opening up the house. First thing I do when I have the house light on is call around to see if I can get someone to cover the rest of my shift.

Erin came in at noon and was wonderful enough to offer to go get me some Benadryl from the gas station at the corner, but she had the ranger come take a look at me while she was gone. The ranger thought I needed to go to the ER..... Yeah, THAT was a good sign.

Anyway, Erin got back and I popped two benadryl and got someone to come in for me. Once all the work stuff was covered, I headed over to my parents house. Why go there and not the ER if it was so bad? Well, my mom is a nurse for starters.

I took about 5 homeopathic remedies and drank a lot of water before falling asleep on the couch for about an hour. when I got up the swelling had gone down a bit, but I was still really red and I itched...a LOT.

So here it is Monday and I'm doing much better. Between the drugs, homeopathics, and water the swelling is almost gone and so is the redness. I'm heading to the Doc's tomorrow to see if there's anything else I can do to figure out what happened.

Sad thing is, the day it started and the day I had something new introduced to my environment was Friday.... the day I got my new car. I'm thinking it might have been something they used to clean the car with before I picked it up, but it kinda bites that I might be allergic to my car.

Hopefully we'll find out tomorrow ;)