It's official. I'm allergic to exercise.

[przed]

Since I missed my Thursday Tae Kwan Do class (was knackered after staying up too late going through the film fest program book) I thought I'd go for a run with a co-worker at lunch time. I carefully took my Ventolin before the run, and took a break when I could feel my asthma coming on, but I did pretty good. I even had enough gas in the tank to sprint the last 50 m.

And then my scalp got itchy, and my face swelled up, and my throat started closing down, and I had to take my Epipen on the street while my co-worker worriedly looked on. And then another co-worker drove me to the E.R., where they stuck an IV in my arm, attached me to a heart monitor, and then made me stay in the hospital for four hours. (I finished the book I was reading, and then took a nap for the rest of the afternoon.)

I want a new body. Seriously. (Who the heck is allergic to running?!)

::sigh::

Comments

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Eep! Glad to hear you're OK Petal. Scary stuff <3

FTR - I am allergic to exercise, although it's more self-inflicted than medical in my case... *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm really, really getting sick of this. (The only positive side is my boss now has first hand reports of what I look like when this happens so if I call in sick with it again she'll definitely know I'm not skiving. *g*)

As for your allergy. hee! (I'm sort of the opposite. I love working out, in certain ways, anyway. Which makes this all the more irksome.)