Because being allergic to dogs is unacceptable and because it could theoretically help some of my other problems, I started getting allergy shots (immunotherapy). The office has carefully arranged their schedule to make this as difficult as possible for anyone with a typical 9-5 job to do this. It's not open before work or after work, and is close 12-1:30 to prevent people from going on a lunch break. I can only pull it off because I have a ton of sick time saved.
So far the shots are kicking my butt: minimal local reactions which are most common, but I am EXHAUSTED afterwards. I'm hoping this doesn't last forever. ("Forever" is how long you have to get allergy shots for, though I'm hoping to be able to reduce frequency in six months.) I'm also hoping that since I'm there so much and don't even have to check in with a human, that eventually the massive anxiety I get every time I walk into a doctor's office abates eventually.
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