Old school outfit + life posting

 Another post? Yes! sometimes I worry about posting back to back in case one gets lost, but that's okay. 

First, my old school look that I wore to a craft supply swap meet before Christmas!

My usual daily make, plus this worm on a string I got at the meet

Next, I got my nails done on Friday! I had to get them shorter because I kept destroying the long ones. I think it might be from typing at work, and they are gel builder not acrylic so they are more flexible. I hope I don't lose my gal street cred because of this xD 

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Last, life update!! 

I have been feeling kind of subpar in multiple ways the last few years, and I finally got around to dealing with one of them. I went to see my allergist a few days ago expecting to just get a new medication, but I also got diagnosed with asthma! I am so shocked, but also very relieved.

This was probably the most pleasant doctor's appointment I've ever had. I hadn't seen him in several years, so I kinda forgot how good of a doctor he actually is. I was all prepared to go in and have to argue like I always do with other doctors and convince him that I'm actually concerned and having an issue, but literally I just said something like "I've been having a weird cough and it makes me unable to catch my breath" and he BELIEVED ME RIGHT AWAY. Like, no stupid questions that have nothing to do with anything, no argument or "come back when it gets worse". He said "oh that sounds like asthma, you can develop it at any time, wait here and I will get a test set up for you in about 10 minutes." And then after the test I was also prepared for disappointment, because he said it was slightly off but not totally, and I can't even tell you how many times a doctor has said that and followed it up with "so you're fine and I won't do anything to help". BUT then he said I could try an inhaler right that second and retake the test to see if it helped. Mind blowing. And it did help, I felt like I could easily take a full breath which I then realized I hadn't done comfortably in a very long time. I even left there with a prescription.

He also said my allergies were really terrible and gave me something to hopefully help there too. 

Now all I'm waiting for is the results of a new kind of blood test that may reveal if I'm allergic to cats so I could get allergy shots. Hopefully I'm not allergic, but even if I am at least they can actually DO something about it unlike most of my other "mystery" problems. My body hasn't reacted to the past allergy tests, so we've never been able to know what my allergies are to get me shots. Usually the allergy medications don't work well for me either, so it's been kind of stupid. That's why I wouldn't mind if this new blood test showed something, because he can tell I have allergies 100% from looking at me but the treatments haven't really worked. Either way, at least I have the medications that have worked the best in the past. 

I really hope this is the start of things looking up for me (▰˘◡˘▰)   My physical therapist said I might be fixable too. It's almost too much to hope for after so long, so I try not to think about it.