Allergies

So Sunday night I am jolted awake by a sinus headache. Grumble. No reason for this. Not any hormonal time of the month, I’ve been avoiding milk – I don’t get it! I can tell right away it is going to be one that will hang on too – no pain meds will really help. Sure enough it only went away around midday today. Thankfully last night a friend asked me about other items in my diet which might be triggers. And I remembered. I recently started having cereal again, but now with vanilla soy milk. Of course the cereals I like are wheat based. Had about 6 bowls over the last 10 days (last one on Sunday am). So it was either the introduction of a vastly increased amount of wheat or the soy milk. I am guessing the wheat since I have only used maybe 1/3 of a half gallon container of the soy milk. I don’t like my cereal swimming. So I doubt that such a small amount over that time would be an allergen trigger. Besides, I have been having soy milk in my Starbucks drinks for at least 7 months now and I had not noticed any issues. Anyhoo – I will do a total wheat avoidance for a couple of weeks to clear things out. Switch to rice or oat based cereal and try again. Why the devil are these allergies from my youth cropping back up again? Oh well. As long as I find a solution to reducing the headaches – I dont care!

Nothing much going on otherwise. Because of the headache, I did not walk the last two days, but I will tomorrow after work and also Thursday.

Oh yes – talked to Alex again. He leaves with Erik Thursday from Stockholm on the east coast of Sweden to a little town on the west coast to visit his great grandma and great aunt. I noticed something though. Since it was this time last year that Nick was in his accident, Alex is clearly conscious of that memory and asks about Nick as soon as we get on the phone. He is also very quick to say “I love you and tell Nick I love him” Before, if I told him I loved him at any time, he might respond back maybe 50% of the time. He’s always been physically affectionate – and still accepts any kind of affection from me, even in front of friends – but never very verbal. A slight concern since his dad of course is entirely too evasive with his emotions and I dont want Alex to learn that 🙂 I had always hoped that being around Nick and Marcus would counterbalance Erik. That seems to finally be showing through – now I just have to help keep it that way!