Stupid finds a way.

That is the truth.

My grandboss just called a meeting with my team to get some feedback. Afterward, my super-eager and slightly longwinded new hire went to tell him some more stuff. I walked in a couple of minutes later because I had a scheduled meeting with the grandboss. He was CLEARLY trying to get her to wrap up, and she just....kept going. Luckily, I knew this about her already and have a good relationship with him, because I was pre-mortified by the time she left.

Thanks! I haven't tried Nasacort. I've been using Nasalcrom with some success, but that's prevention only, not treatment. I'll pick some up when I go to the drugstore after work (the more times I repeat that I am going to the drugstore, the more likely I will remember to actually go. Drugstore. After work.)

The Claritin and Zyrtec both have big DO NOT TAKE MORE THAN ONE DOSE IN A DAY notices in the documentation, though I am really not taking another of either today because they are at home and I am at work where the Allegra lives...I suspect what I really need right now is Benadryl, but I don't have that to hand either...

Nasalcrom

That's the one with the hilarious ads, right? "That's right. I said Nasal. Crom."

I always go to a "We have ways of making you talk. Bring on the Nasalkromm" place with that one.

NasalCrom is what NoseConan swears by.

The Claritin and Zyrtec both have big DO NOT TAKE MORE THAN ONE DOSE IN A DAY notices in the documentation

Nah, my doctor has told me to take 2 claritin/zyrtec/allegra (basically, whichever one I had on hand) for really bad allergy attacks. You can take 2 a day if you need to.

I've been using Nasalcrom with some success, but that's prevention only, not treatment.

I think Nasacort is meant to be preventive, too, not treatment.

Benadryl is really the only rescue med for a bad allergy attack, isn't it?

Benadryl is really the only rescue med for a bad allergy attack, isn't it?

Benadryl acts more quickly, but the 2nd- (or is it 3rd?) generation antihistamines (claritin, zyrtec, allegra) are still antihistamines and do work to stop an allergy attack -- just not nearly as quickly as benadryl does.

You can take 2 a day if you need to.

Oh, excellent news!

Unrelatedly*, earlier I couldn't remember what the name of a vodka + oj was. (I mean, you can call it vodka and oj, but I knew it had an alternate name.) And it got me all worried that my mental acuity is slipping and I need to get tested -- this, despite the fact that I hadn't actually had a vodka + oj in years and years, so why would I remember the name?

After about 2 minutes I remembered it's a screwdriver. So I guess maybe the dementia hasn't set in yet.

*(It's maybe slightly related in that my allergies are driving me nuts, but then I wondered if it's REALLY a cold, and I'm going out to dinner tonight, so I thought, hey, I could order a vodka + oj for the vitamin C...but wait, doesn't that drink have another name? And then the spiral began.)