A Very Scary Thing Happened During Our Walk
I was feeling pretty well and it was still cool enough (60F) outside that I thought it would be a perfect day to take Robin on a bit longer walk. I was thinking we would do about 20 blocks, but after about 5 or 6, something started to go very wrong.
Initially, my legs felt extremely itchy and painful. The itching was pretty much like normal itching but the pain felt like knives cutting and slicing basically everything from the waste down. I then started to feel horrible all over and wondered to myself if I was not having some sort of entire-body histamine reaction since that’s kind of what it felt like.
We immediately turned back towards home, but since we had walked 6 blocks away from home I knew I needed to find some place to sit down a while. We approached the Max station about 1 1/2 block later, but a woman was sitting on the center of the bench so I figured we should go somewhere else. (Where? Who knows. There aren’t a lot of places to sit in Hillsboro - Car Town, USA.) But as we waited for the crosswalk, she literally staggered away. Must have been her empty wine bottle left on the bench. Silly me. I thought folks only drank Sutter Home with nice food in the comfort of their own home...
We did sit down and by that time I was feeling horribly nauseous and had broken out in one of those nasty cold sweats I get. I was really feeling very poorly. Unfortunately, two trains came by making Robin uncomfortable, the guys came to clean the platform and I wasn’t able to get completely out of the sun so I figured we should continue on home. My stomach was cramping up by this time.
Two blocks later we stopped at the Tuality Hospital Café. While I realized that I had gotten up so late, went right out to work on the garden, and thus missed breakfast, that didn’t really explain the histamine reaction thing though. Still, a bit of food wouldn’t hurt so I got a burrito. I ate it outside, sitting in the shade, while everyone who walked by wanted to pet Robin. He got lots of compliments and made loads of new friends.
After finishing the burrito, we continued the last 3 blocks to the house. I guess all told we were gone an hour. That’s a very long time for a six-block walk so I know I was sitting most of it. I feel okay, but my legs are really, really irritated.
I do seem to have some sort of a small bite on my left calf but it doesn’t look to be anything more than a mosquito-type bite. I’m not really sure if my feet swelled up or if maybe the socks were just a bit tighter than normal. Otherwise I don’t really see anything else that could explain what happened but I don’t really think the forgotten breakfast was entirely to blame.
I also did a quick double check of my med bottles because I knew one used to warn against exposure to the sun but I stopped that one some time ago. So now I’m rather stumped on what went wrong. I have to say I’m more than a little frustrated since I was eager to getting out for more and more exercise. I want to lose some of this excess weight and build up some endurance.
But it is experiences like this that make me really not want to take risks (like going for a 20 block walk is risky). This is exactly why I don’t go to nature parks alone or take the train to Washington Park or much of anything anymore. This really frustrates me because I thought I was maybe getting away from this kind of thing.
Initially, my legs felt extremely itchy and painful. The itching was pretty much like normal itching but the pain felt like knives cutting and slicing basically everything from the waste down. I then started to feel horrible all over and wondered to myself if I was not having some sort of entire-body histamine reaction since that’s kind of what it felt like.
We immediately turned back towards home, but since we had walked 6 blocks away from home I knew I needed to find some place to sit down a while. We approached the Max station about 1 1/2 block later, but a woman was sitting on the center of the bench so I figured we should go somewhere else. (Where? Who knows. There aren’t a lot of places to sit in Hillsboro - Car Town, USA.) But as we waited for the crosswalk, she literally staggered away. Must have been her empty wine bottle left on the bench. Silly me. I thought folks only drank Sutter Home with nice food in the comfort of their own home...
We did sit down and by that time I was feeling horribly nauseous and had broken out in one of those nasty cold sweats I get. I was really feeling very poorly. Unfortunately, two trains came by making Robin uncomfortable, the guys came to clean the platform and I wasn’t able to get completely out of the sun so I figured we should continue on home. My stomach was cramping up by this time.
Two blocks later we stopped at the Tuality Hospital Café. While I realized that I had gotten up so late, went right out to work on the garden, and thus missed breakfast, that didn’t really explain the histamine reaction thing though. Still, a bit of food wouldn’t hurt so I got a burrito. I ate it outside, sitting in the shade, while everyone who walked by wanted to pet Robin. He got lots of compliments and made loads of new friends.
After finishing the burrito, we continued the last 3 blocks to the house. I guess all told we were gone an hour. That’s a very long time for a six-block walk so I know I was sitting most of it. I feel okay, but my legs are really, really irritated.
I do seem to have some sort of a small bite on my left calf but it doesn’t look to be anything more than a mosquito-type bite. I’m not really sure if my feet swelled up or if maybe the socks were just a bit tighter than normal. Otherwise I don’t really see anything else that could explain what happened but I don’t really think the forgotten breakfast was entirely to blame.
I also did a quick double check of my med bottles because I knew one used to warn against exposure to the sun but I stopped that one some time ago. So now I’m rather stumped on what went wrong. I have to say I’m more than a little frustrated since I was eager to getting out for more and more exercise. I want to lose some of this excess weight and build up some endurance.
But it is experiences like this that make me really not want to take risks (like going for a 20 block walk is risky). This is exactly why I don’t go to nature parks alone or take the train to Washington Park or much of anything anymore. This really frustrates me because I thought I was maybe getting away from this kind of thing.
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