Allergies - #@$#%

Twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, my allergies just get so out of control that I often lay down and spend the day with an ice pack over my face. This is one of those days, although I can't really do that with Mom sick. We saw the neurologist yesterday and her med levels were fine. We think that the new dosage should successfully control her seizures. We also saw the pulmonary doctor, who said that he saw a dark band across her left lung from the CAT scan Monday - it wasn't there three weeks ago when she was in the hospital. He's treating it as pneumonia based on her congestion and coughing getting worse. She also suffers from allergies so that's probably compounding it. After a day of steroids and strong antibiotics, she feels and looks better - so I think it probably is just pneumonia. But I'll tell you, when the doctor told us of that dark mass in her lung it was a bowel-loosening moment unlike anything I've felt other than when I heard that Daddy only had a few minutes to live...