My nose has been running and its itching causing sneezing fits for a week now and I know it ain’t a cold. It’s cedar fever, early this year. I can’t decide whether the light rain we’re having is keeping the culprit juniper pollen out of the air or making it worse.
How could it make it worse? Beats me. When the Texas Curse hits you try to reason why, but you fail because there’s no reasoning about it. You just pray it doesn’t last more than a few weeks. Shoot, even afflicted atheists pray it doesn’t last too long.
But even when it’s not in the air outdoors, the heating system has pulled it into the house and distributed it around. Even if you vacuumed and dusted, it’d still be around. I know. I’ve tried. Better to hunker down with a good book and lots of tissues. And wait it out.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I dunno, Dick – everybody around here is sick with a cold or the flu. I don’t know which it is, I suspect it’s just a cold, because I’m almost over it and didn’t get hit very bad. Or maybe it’s because I had the flu shot and it protected me somewhat.
Talked to my son in Tulsa, and he’s got it, too. So the bugs are out there. Might not be pollen/allergies that are getting to you.
Possibly, but I had my flu shot and I seldom get colds except in the summer. And cedar fever has been known to start early, sometimes as early as November. I’m sticking with my self-diagnosis for now.
Hm… even in the midst of a winter. Well, I am surviving lately on something called Flixonase Aqueous Nasal Spray. My usual autumn/spring allergies became all-seasons ones, so this is what I got. Two squirts per nostril every morning. Unbelievably it helps. To use permanently, as I was told. Here:
http://www.medicines.org.uk/EMC/medicine/85/SPC/Flixonase+Aqueous+Nasal+Spray/