Monday, March 14, 2011

Crazy Day

This was to be the day that I posted the last of my bread recipes, the white bread. Unfortunately, this day has turned out to be one that I don't remember ever having before, and one that I hope I will never have again ! I guess I will have to set the scene, which started after church yesterday.

We had invited some close friends of ours to help us eat the last of the bean soup, made my husband, who incidentally makes the best ham and bean soup you've ever tasted in your life. He doesn't do it by recipe, he just throws it together. We all feasted and unfortunately I ate a little too much. I don't usually eat that much in the middle of the day. Maybe I should because I certainly wasn't hungry in the evening. I've read that it is much healthier to eat your big meal for lunch and just a small portion at night. But, I digress. We had been invited over to some other friends house to an open house given for their son, who was one of our speakers at church. He is on his way Thursday to his mission, which will be in Agrgentina. It was a fun affair with lots of our friends there. So much food everywhere. They have a HUGE house that is perfect for entertaining and there was dinner on the patio, and food everywhere in the dining room/kitchen area. I just couldn't eat so I sat by Dick while he was eating his dinner and one of our friends was eating one of those little miniture quiches (Is that the right spelling?) and it looked pretty tasty, so I told Dick he could get me one of those. He came back with two for me and two for him. I ate them, and thought at the time that they didn't taste quite like the ones that come from Costco that I had eaten a couple of times before. When Dick finished, we went into the house and were visiting with people and all of a sudden I started to sneeze and my nose started to run like a seive. Soon little bumps started to be felt in my throat and the roof of my mouth and I knew I was having an allergic reaction! I have had these many times in my life, being the allergic person that I am, but I hadn't had one like this for years and I didn't have my emergency grey zipper bag that I used to take with my everywhere I went. I had grown too complacent. I told Dick we had to leave NOW, which we did. When I got home, I rushed to the place I keep all my medicine (by my chair in the living room) and quickly took two benedryl tablets. I then remembered that when I used to get these, I always took the chewable kind that are for children, because it gets into the blood system more quickly, so I looked at them to see how many mgms they had and it said 12.5, which is about half of one of the tablets I took.
So, dummy me, that didn't seem like that much, so I took one of them too. It wasn't long before the bumps, itching and stuff went away in my mouth, but also until I was asleep. At 1:00a.m. Dick woke me up and told me it was time to brush my teeth and go to bed. I am not sure just how I got to the bathroom, or how I went through the routine we go through for bedtime, but I managed to do it all, plus say our prayers, since it was my turn. Dick tells me, the prayer was short, but do you know I don't remember doing any of that. It was like I was totally drugged out like a druggie, or a drunk that doesn't remember what happened. I went to bed and right back to sleep. Dick woke me at noon today to tell me what time it was and asked me if I didnt' want to get up. I just said no, and went back to sleep. He got a bit worried at 2:15 this afternoon and woke me up and told me I had better get up or I wouldn't sleep tonight. It was a stuggle waking up and getting up and I have to say, it was really strange having missed breakfast, lunch and half the afternoon. By the time I got back to the living room, it was almost 3:00 and only two hours before dinner!! Wow! I have never had that experience before in my lifetime. I am okay now, still a big groggy, and I do hope that I will be sleepy enough to go to sleep right now. I don't think I will have a problem, because I am a bit sleepy right now and it is only 7:23p.m. Talk about losing a whole day.

Needless to say, I will not be posting my white bread recipe today. Maybe in a couple of days I will do it. I am just not one of those people who can post a blog every day. I do well to get in a couple, or at most three in a week. I am so appreciative of my loyal blogging friends that do come on whenever I post. Thanks again. It's so fun to have you all for my friends.

12 comments:

  1. That's quite a story Mom, and a little bit scary, to tell you the truth. I hope you will be careful with Benadryl in the future. Apparently, it really affects you!

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  2. Goodness Darlene, that must have been frightening! Benadryl always knocks me flat, but it is the only thing that works for me if I'm having an allergic reaction to something (and I seem to be allergic to everything) I hope that you get a good nights sleep tonight and are feeling better tomorrow!
    Kat

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  3. I agree with Sue...a bit scary! When your story started, I thought it was going to be food poisoning that got the best of you....that has happened to me a couple of times. Allergic reactions are even scarier!
    Once, when in Ireland, I ate fish at a nice restaurant. On the way back to the hotel, I began to be sick in every sense of the word...yuck! I, too, took medication and just being so sick made me miss the next 24 hours. You are right, that's a funny feeling.
    Hope tomorrow is a better day...the bread can wait!!

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  4. Ive had sudden allergic reactions that I've needed to go to ER for, twice so far. It is SO SCARY so I understand wanting to make sure the Benedryl gets in your bloodstream fast enough. I keep the children's chewable with me where ever I go now. But they are hard to find in the stores lately..is it that way there also?

    Good it worked, even though you practically slept the day away!

    So did you ever figure out what was in those quiches causing your reaction?

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  5. It seems you do not need a very large dose to help you. I am glad you were able to sleep it off and be okay. Wonder what was in the quiche that you were allergic to. I don't take Benedryl much any more because at the lowest dose at always keeps me sleepy for at least 2 days but it works well for an allergic reaction. Hope you have no more bad reactions like that to food or to Benedryl. Hugs

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  6. That was a very scary experience. I too have allergies; so I can relate to that. It would be nice to know what may have caused the reaction.It was probably something in the quiche. I am glad you are feeling better and finally waking up. Take care of yourself.
    Blessings and hugs for you! LeAnn

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  7. I am much better today, thank you. I actually had a normal nights sleep last night. Thanks for your concern. Yes, it had to be the quiche because that was the only thing I ate there. Now I just need to find out what was in it. I'll probably never eat those little quiches again, even if made by a different company.

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  8. I'm glad to hear you're better today! Goodness - between the allergic reaction and your drug overdose you've packed a lot of living into a couple of days! BE CAREFUL and stay away from little quiches. Unless you make them.

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  9. Whoa..medication is definetly the place where more is not better. Glad you're OK, but I'm also glad that you didn't fall while trying to get up and around. Do you know what set off the reaction in the food you ate? You take care of yourself and the bread recipe will still be there when you feel up to it!

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  10. I wonder what was in it causing you the allergic reaction? Such a scary story. I am so glad that you are doing better, but I was seriously worried for a minute there. And I can imagine losing a whole day would be a rather weird experience.

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  11. I hated reading about your reaction to the quiche. Thank goodness you had something to take but so sorry you had to much. Wow you really did miss a day.
    I don't post everyday either so do not feel bad.
    We are lucky just to have you as a blogger.
    Today I am staying with my daughter she had a tumor removed and seems to be doing good. The doctor gave me hope that it was probably not cancer so I am praying he is right.
    Will of course let you know.
    Take care of yourself and please be careful
    Love ya
    Maggie

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  12. Hey honey I appreciate your concern about my working in a prison. Thank goodness that is in the past now. I answered your comment if you want to go back over and read it.
    I hope I answered it to where you can understand it. Maybe I can do a post just about the dorm setting so everyone can understand it better.
    Hope you have a wonderful weekend and be careful of what you eat and take. lol
    Love ya
    Maggie

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