First, I would like to say think you to everyone for all the well wishes and comments via the blog, and via twitter, and personal emails for the car accident and for my allergic reaction to the world. Having such great readers and blog friends means so much to me! I don’t know what I’d do without you all.

Update number one ~ the car situation. We did get a rent a car, $200 a week for the economy car. Mind you it isn’t the smallest car, but it’s not the biggest car. It’s not really a mid-size either… it’s just economy. Whatever that means. Have you met my darling husband? He’s 6 foot 4 inches tall. Economy and he don’t fit together so well. He’s squashed into that little driver’s seat with his head pretty much touching the ceiling. It’s kinda funny actually. Shh, don’t tell him I said that.

We haven’t heard anything from the adjuster yet. No news is good news, I hope.

Update number two ~ my puffy allergic mess of skin. I did go to the Patient First care center. I highly recommend those if you have one near you. It’s just like going to your doctor’s office only better, and with evening hours until 10:00 pm every night, and weekend hours every weekend, open 365 days a year! And they have a pharmacy built in so you leave with everything you need and just go home feeling better. We definitely need more of these kind of places in the country. Fabulous.

Enough about the place, more about what happened at the place. I’m feeling uber better today. Not itchy for the first time since I don’t know when. Basically, yes my allergies and eczema have been flared up. We don’t know what the trigger is though. And that’s normal, I think my previous dermatologist said it was something like half or more cases they don’t find out what the trigger is unless it’s a specific food or environmental allergy that they can pinpoint with a test. So, now that it’s been turned “on” we have to turn it “off” …. and that isn’t always easy.

Step one in turning it off, a shot of prednisone. Step two a double shot of Benedryl. And these shots are not the kind you get in your arm They go in your … um … hip area. Yeah, I guess that’s technically my hip. Enormous as my child bearing hips may be, they’re still hips.

The good news is that it’s helping tremendously. By time I got home from the doctor’s office and ate my sandwich and drank a Dr. Pepper the inflammation had gone down. The redness was starting to fade away. And there was this weird feeling… of not being itchy! That feeling of NOT ITCHY has continued through the day.

I’ve also got a round of oral prednisone that I started this morning with breakfast to further push out the inflammation and hives. Turn everything off so to speak. If by Wednesday I am not 90% clear I have to go back and get another set of those shots in my hips. Oh what Joy & Fun!!

The bad news….. well, I must say that it’s very bad news. So much so that I think I may need to go compose myself again and write it in it’s own post so that it doesn’t completely overthrow my good news, which is that I feel uber better and not itchy! Hooray for not itchy. I’m so not itchy that I could throw a party and dance all night long. Yes, it’s that good to be not itchy. Did I tell you that I am not itchy!?!