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I finally made an appointment with the allergist I saw two years ago because this crazy rash refuses to go away. Except, I don't think I mentioned I had another crazy rash. I get tired of whining about my skin ailments, at least in text. Poor M gets to hear the extended versions of skin whining anyway. My skin is absurdly sensitive. I started breaking out on my forearms and just above my knees two and a half weeks ago. It itches like mad, and I really looked lovely, talking to people at my grandmother's funeral while covertly digging at my arms. I would have just gone to the regular doctor's office but the last time I went in because of a rash they said, "huh. you're probably allergic to something." Then they made me an appointment with this allergist, but mainly because I had been sick so often, not because of the rash. Usually, my skin rashes will go away if I take a shower and an allergy pill, but this has just gotten worse. It's driving me batty so I hope that he has an idea of how to fix it. The question will be whether or not he's interested in fixing it in a way that will be safe for my breastfed baby. He wasn't really interested in my attempt to get pregnant when I was seeing him last time. He told me I was too young to worry about it and the fun part was in the trying anyway. Oi.

Oh, and my hair has finally started falling out. I thought I was going to avoid that, but I've started finding clumps of hair in strange places. Also, Evelyn's hair is falling out now too. Her hairline receded a few weeks after she was born, but she kept most of her hair, so I thought she wasn't going to lose it like everyone delighted in telling me. Note: why did everyone feel the need to tell me that her sweet head of hair was going to disappear? It made me sad. It does make me wonder why we both started it at the same time because that's an interesting coincidence, if it is one. Hormones of some type? I don't know.

Evelyn has been coughing today, and she seems to be a bit congested, maybe. I'm still hoping it's nothing but I fear that my baby is getting sick, oh no! Should have known better than to take her around old people on Saturday... ;) I shouldn't make fun. They're nice old people.

Speaking of nothing, can we get past the whole "throwing rice is bad for the birds" thing? It doesn't even make sense. I have never once heard of a rash of exploding birds over a rice field, have you? What did the poor birds do before humans started protecting them from dangerous rice? Just one of my pet peeves, and I saw it mentioned yet again on TV today. FYI, they threw rice at my wedding. Although... isn't it a symbol of fertility? Fat lot of good it did me, right? :)