Can You Take Nyquil for Allergies?

Our street is a-buzz with people doing outdoor chores. My husband is using one of his favorite toys–the leaf blower–to get the newly cut grass off of our driveway. The woman across the street is weeding her flower bed. She’s got her teenage son’s girlfriend helping her. Very smart on the girlfriend’s part—getting in good with the mom. The guy who has lived across the street from this house since I was sneaking cigarettes is spraying some type of something around his yard, probably a weed killer.

And I’m sitting in my oversized chair typing it up because my allergies have blessed me with the peculiar condition of a stopped up nose that runs every so many minutes. I either can’t blow it or can’t keep my allergy induced snot from running over my upper lip. Sorry, if I’m grossing you out; but it’s snot, get over it. We all have it.

Awwwwww allergies. As a small child I suffered horribly from crazy sneezing episodes and eyes swollen and caked over with cruddy morning allergy crust. Every so many months, I’d have to switch allergy medicine because I’d grow immune to the Benadryl I would slurp down.

Being with child, I’m not taking anything for my bi-polar nasal condition tonight. I don’t know if I’m allowed or not. I really don’t have the motivation to google allergy okay medications for pregnant women.

I’ve never been a huge fan of over the counter meds. They seem like a bother to me. Most symptoms you suffer are gone by the time the meds kick in anyway. I am a big fan of swigging a couple shots of nyquil to sleep off a cold or flu. And, not so many years ago, I’d readily pop a xanax, valium, demerol, vicodin, percocet, lortab or whatever small dose of anti-anxiety or pain remover that was being offered. Those kind of meds are long behind me now. I stopped popping pills long before I stopped drinking.

So I here I sit, unable to breath out my nose and sounding even more nasal-ly than my usual self. Part of me suspects that my body is protesting my trip to Chicago for work tomorrow. The thought of having to travel my first day back to work after a well-rested vacation seems a bit cruel. The first post- vacation day should be spent adjusting to the average office surroundings: email, voicemail, office chatter, afternoon Starbucks hops.

Instead, I’m going to be lining up with my A-27 boarding pass on a Southwest flight to Chicago. It’s not so bad. The flight is quick, quick; and I love Chicago. It’s just the idea of traveling right after spending a week on the sand. It’s like going from one extreme to another…just like my nose is doing right now.