Wetsuit time

Its my day off and I have been off my ibuprofen for a week so its time to get wetsuit on and see if I'm allergic. This is my first real day off work and exercise in 8 months. I get the wetsuit on in the morning - no problems. We go out for lunch and then head to Chatfield reservoir which is a lot cheaper than bolder. Can you believe you cant swim in Stadley lake as Westminster says its a health issue for drinking water but smelly, polluting, leaky motor boats are not. Tut, Tut Westminster.

Anyway I swim 100 yards, roll the suit down, play with the kids for 20 minutes, roll it back up and swim another 100 yards. This is around 3. I can honestly say I enjoyed the time there, maybe next summer we can get a BBQ, some friends and some 3.2% beer and hang out there for an afternoon.

So we got home around 4:30. By 5 I was itchy. By six I was red and itchy. By 7 I was a mess, red from chest to knees. By 8 I was shaking, burning, feverish and a bit out of it. At 10 I tried to go to bed but I was nauseous too. So no urgent care open so I'm off to ER.

As usual they took the first impression and I got the there is nothing wrong, until I flashed a thigh! By 12:30 I was focused and recovering. The one thing we agreed on was that we forgot a contingency plan for if it went wrong - doh!

So I'm still allergic to pressure! bugger I don't remember it being this bad! Kathleen agrees.