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commodorifiedI will not be attending WisCon 2015.
As many of you already know, my allergies have been getting worse over the past few years, especially in spring, especially in Madison, especially especially in Madison in spring.
WisCon takes place ... in Madison, in spring.
Of my last four WisCons ... 2011 I coughed so much I sprained a rib. Admittedly, I stayed an extra week to visit friends, but ... a RIB.
2012 was a dry year, and I was basically fine (by which I mean I remember me and Mel recruiting people to go to CVS with us so we could buy extra pseudoephinedrine, but that's normal for me in spring.)
2013 I left the con and spent one night in a private home and ended up in Urgent Care and Cat had to change her plans and mine and half-carry me home, where I spent a week in bed.
2014, despite basically not leaving the hotel and its AC at all I missed most of the con due to allergy attacks, and in particular had to run out of Hiromi Goto's awesome GOH speech and missed NK Jemisin's ENTIRELY, because I was coughing fit to wreck everybody's enjoyment.
So, until I've got a few more rounds of allergy serum under my skin, WisCon and I are taking a break from one another, because even for the completely awesome WisCon Access folks, "May I please have a spacesuit with a self-contained breathing apparatus for the weekend?" is perhaps going just a bit far ... also they're very hard to sleep in I suspect.
I am going to miss it horribly, and I am going to miss all of you terribly.
I was especially looking forward to this year's con because I am very interested to see where the new ConCom is going to take things and I really wanted to be there volunteering, panelling and generally supporting that. I will be hanging out on twitter, wishing you all well and being as supportive as possible from there.
Offers to FaceTime me from the front rows of the Inevitable Late Night Drunken Slash panel gratefully received.
As many of you already know, my allergies have been getting worse over the past few years, especially in spring, especially in Madison, especially especially in Madison in spring.
WisCon takes place ... in Madison, in spring.
Of my last four WisCons ... 2011 I coughed so much I sprained a rib. Admittedly, I stayed an extra week to visit friends, but ... a RIB.
2012 was a dry year, and I was basically fine (by which I mean I remember me and Mel recruiting people to go to CVS with us so we could buy extra pseudoephinedrine, but that's normal for me in spring.)
2013 I left the con and spent one night in a private home and ended up in Urgent Care and Cat had to change her plans and mine and half-carry me home, where I spent a week in bed.
2014, despite basically not leaving the hotel and its AC at all I missed most of the con due to allergy attacks, and in particular had to run out of Hiromi Goto's awesome GOH speech and missed NK Jemisin's ENTIRELY, because I was coughing fit to wreck everybody's enjoyment.
So, until I've got a few more rounds of allergy serum under my skin, WisCon and I are taking a break from one another, because even for the completely awesome WisCon Access folks, "May I please have a spacesuit with a self-contained breathing apparatus for the weekend?" is perhaps going just a bit far ... also they're very hard to sleep in I suspect.
I am going to miss it horribly, and I am going to miss all of you terribly.
I was especially looking forward to this year's con because I am very interested to see where the new ConCom is going to take things and I really wanted to be there volunteering, panelling and generally supporting that. I will be hanging out on twitter, wishing you all well and being as supportive as possible from there.
Offers to FaceTime me from the front rows of the Inevitable Late Night Drunken Slash panel gratefully received.
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Date: 2015-03-31 11:51 pm (UTC)may your allergy shots bring you relief, and soon.
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Date: 2015-04-01 01:59 am (UTC)If you have severe sinus congestion, do you know about NeilMed? It's an OTC neutral saline powder that you mix into 240 ml (6oz) of distilled water in their flexible plastic bottle* and warm up to about body temp. Then you lean over the sink and squirt half of it up one nostril, and let it run out the other; repeat on other side. I have had post-nasal drip all my life, and I have a(n un)fair bit of congestion, especially in the cold and allergy seasons. I told my allergist that I was using this stuff and he was quite positive about it.
* or neti pot, but I'm comfortable with the bottle
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Date: 2015-04-01 02:34 am (UTC)We've decided to go with inhaled steroids.
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Date: 2015-04-01 07:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-02 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-02 04:53 am (UTC)