The doctor I saw said maybe I have a pollen allergy and I hope I grow out of this so bad because holy hell it’s miserable if that’s what it is. Can I not even enjoy being outdoors anymore? Like, what does life have against me? My neighbours ruined walks with their music, my local park got gentrified, other neighbours created a ton of chimney smoke, my granddad had his stroke when I was returning from a walk and now I learn this. I NEED to be outdoors, in nature etc. Having to mask/take medical precautions for this now is reminding me of how careful I had to be with COVID, plus I’m asthmatic and I feel like I’m going to end up with it going out of dormancy over this. I hope that doctor was wrong, he wasn’t helpful anyway.
Honestly the more time goes on the more I hear the birds screaming and it seems to be in response to the increasingly bad environment. So even when I get to observe them locally I feel bad.
Just going to copy what I said in a DM,
I don’t have a runny nose but I have cobblestone throat, some veins visible at back of throat, scratchy feeling eyes, sometimes headache, and my heart and larynx hurt. I am asthmatic, but i havent had an asthma attack since i got sick, and even with stethoscope both doctors didnt hear anything odd there.
Also, I almost forgot to say this but my dad offhandedly mention that we have family in another (very similar) country, and I said “why don’t we visit eventually” he recoiled at the idea of travelling. He said nothing about that family but he was annoyingly patriotic. I swear the people I talk to avoid travel down here are just so… idk how to say it. I guess set in their ways is right, if people just wanna live in one place then cool but people are weirdly defensive to anyone who wants to travel, leave aus, etc. where I live. It’s ridiculous. Also can’t say you think the country is boring without a dozsn excuses, just say the good things about the country aren’t really appealing to me and people have that “you’ll come around” mentality. Feels like crab mentality sometimes. To be against travel altogether… seriously, what. To be clear people respond negatively to even saying you want to travel like “Italy is cool, I’d love to visit” “nah that place is boring, Australia is the best”. Can those people just stop godddd
@Xara I’m so late but you’re going through so much lately, and I agree with what everyone said here. I don’t have much to add, but I give you my condolences. I don’t know what I’m going to do when my cat is gone honestly…