Allergic Reaction
For the Queens Birthday long weekend, Glen and I went to Rover Park. Initially we we were going to go to Levuka, but after all the rain, all of their 4wd tracks were closed, so Glen sourced Rover Park.
I have to say that there were a LOT of people at Rover Park. The Campground near the amenities block was absolutely packed. We camped in Campground 2, which is behind the main campground. There was only two other groups in our campground. In our group, we had quite a mish mash of cars and people. There was us (Mav); a Challenger; a Wrangler; a Range Rover; a Discovery and; a Cherokee.
The Cherokee died on the way into the Park. The transmition blew up and they called RACQ to get towed. Seeing we were in NSW, they had to wait for NRMA to come get them. The Wrangler broke on the way out of the park. It drove home in front wheel drive. The Range Rover had major issues on the way home. I’m not sure of exact details, but I think it had to limp the whole way home. The guy who owns the Challenger rolled his ankle on Sunday night and it blew up the size of a house. He got taken to the hospital at Tenterfield and ended up getting 2 weeks off work!
On Tuesday morning, I woke up and said to Glen, my eye feels funny. He took one look and told me that it’s blown up again. Last year, in August as my Doc tells me, my left eye decided to have some fun and swell. I didn’t know what it was from and my doctor at the time told me just to have an anti-histamine. We didn’t look into it, because the anti-histamine did the trick and it hadn’t happened again or before then.
So on Tuesday, I just took an anti-histamine and went to work. It did kinda go down but not enough. I called the doctor’s and made an appointment. While waiting at reception, my face started to puff up. So did my lips, left arm, left hand and my left side…. Weird… I just took off my watch and waited for the doctor… When I got to see the doctor - She gave me a stern talking to… Off I went to get an injection to stop the swelling and she put me on steriods too. Apparently, I was in the midst of a pretty serious allergic reaction.
Seeing Glen and I are doing a Cape York trip in just over 2 weeks, I have to get an EpiPen. I got told that the Allergy Specialist has signed off on my Pen; but I’ve got to go and have testing to see what I’m allergic to… Should be fun…