Monday sucks on its own, throw in a swollen upper lip on one side and the suck factor rises insurmountably. Now not only do I look like a stroke victim, it’s Monday! Another thing that sucks is I don’t know what caused this idiopathic angioedema, the last thing I ate was a peach. I have never been allergic to peaches before, I love peaches!
Since my lip feels really tight I can’t forget about it, when people talk to me I imagine they are staring at it thinking “freak”. I wondered whether I should explain or wait for them to ask. This morning it felt so bad, I thought it would just be best to address it, get it out in the open, and get it over with. I rode the elevator with a male coworker and brought it up. He reacted by saying, “Eww, I didn’t notice until you pointed out. Ewww!”
So then I thought, it doesn’t look so bad and obviously some people find a swollen lip gross, I would just smile extra big, thinking it would flatten my lip out enough to look normal, and I wouldn’t say anything. However, since it is Monday everyone wants to talk about the weekend. On Tuesday a simple smile and nod would be plenty, but not on Monday, no, everyone’s chatty Cathy on Monday.
I encountered a few more people and they didn’t seem to notice (at least that was what I chose to believe). I was just starting think the swelling was going down, when a female coworker saw me and asked what the hell happened to my face. Not only did she notice that my lip was swollen, she thought my eyes were red, and checks were swollen too. Women notice everything!
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