Sulfa Stinks!

Alright, so many of you know back in January I came down with a terrible…TERRIBLE…allergic reaction. I am apparently allergic to sulfa. Who’d a thunk!

allergic reaction n.
A local or generalized reaction of an organism to internal or external contact with a specific allergen to which the organism has been previously sensitized.

Nowhere in this definition does it say anything about it lasting FOREVER! I never in a million years would have thought that an allergic reaction would take such a toll on my body. All of the training that I had done, gone. It put me on my butt for over a month and ever since a little before Denver, I have been building my endurance back up.

IT IS THE CRAZIEST THING! I don’t know why, but I have had this weird cough thing going on. I’m not sure if it is allergies…or if it a weird side effect of the allergic reaction that just came way late... or if secretly I am coughing because it is the first step until I start breathing fire like a dragon. Really though, these attack thingy’s like to come when I am talking to people. And they have gotten a lot better than what they were before, but seriously, all of the sudden I just start coughing like a maniac mid conversation and the person next to me is like, “BETH…are you okay?!?!” And I’m like spitting out mucus and pretending I know sign language. It happened when I was talking to mike lauckner on the phone the other day and he thought that I had died! Sorry for the scare mike…

All of that said, I have been getting out and biking around the neighborhood and every time I bike, my throat feels amazing! So this is a good sign. I can’t wait to be with a group of people! I’m loving the training now and I can only imagine what it’s going to be like with 30 people! 58 degrees and sunny today. Once I get out of class, I’m hitting the pavement!