A Different Kind of Poke and Prod

Your women’s health librarian has an allergist appointment today to address why she broke out in hives on the last night of nerd camp. Details to follow.

In completely unrelated news, I received a summons for jury duty yesterday, my first ever. I also became trapped in a stairwell in the hospital at work (without my phone) after ending rounds in an unfamiliar part of the building, setting off an alarm when I was forced to exit via an emergency exit. It’s been that kind of week.

Update: Three hours of being shuffled around the allergist’s clinic and the limited set of prick tests didn’t turn up anything. 5 vials of blood for testing another limited set of things has been sent off with results in 1-2 weeks – if that doesn’t yield an answer, we’re “starting from scratch.” Right now I’m wandering around in “what will give me hives?” purgatory. And I have hairy cat vomit dried to the bottom of my shoe.