You learn something new every day.

So, it turns out I'm allergic to cherries. Awesome.

For about the last year or so, every time I would eat cherries, my throat, mouth, ears, and glands would itch like a bastard. I thought it was possibly just pesticides or something, so I just laid off how many I ate. It didn't stop. Same thing would happen when I ate peaches, but never when I ate apples, grapes, bananas or any other fruit.

Tonight, my aunt brought over cherries soaked in vodka. She left about 6 of them on the table and no one was eating them so I decided to give them a whirl.

Bad idea.

Almost instantly, my throat and ears and neck started to itch badly. Since this was probably about the fifth time it happened and I figured the vodka would probably kill any pesticides on the fruit, I decided to goo.gle allergies to cherries. Although I am not severely allergic to them to the point of vomiting and not being able to breathe, I do have what is called OAS or Oral Allergy Syndrome. It says if you're allergic to cherries, you may also be allergic to peaches and/or birch. Yeah, I'm not sure who is going around eating birch, but I don't think I have to worry about that one.

It listed the same symptoms I get exactly so it's kind of hard to deny. I guess I'll just stay away from cherries for a long time. Damn. :(

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I got my paperwork in the mail for the surgery today. My appointment is July 14th at 8am. I'm having a pelvic laparoscopy with an HSG again. Fabulous. Of course, I'm not worried about surgery. What I'm really worried about is having to pay anything out of pocket for this. I really hope my insurance covers it because I can't afford to take on another huge doctor's bill. My insurance covered the other surgery I had a few years ago and I have the same insurance now so I'm guessing they will at least cover most of it. I'm going to call them just to be sure though.

I'll be out of work for 1-2 days which means if I'm not totally healed by that Friday, I'll have a 5 day weekend. A 5 day *birthday* weekend that is, so that totally sucks. I really hope this does something or at least gives us answers because 6 fucking years of this shit is more than enough. I'm well past being sick of it; I'm completely fed up. If he doesn't find anything wrong and gives me the option of Clo.mid or Clo.mid and IUI, I'll most likely do the C and IUI but since I don't think insurance will cover most or all of it, I will only be able to do so many rounds. After that, I'll just take it as a sign that it wasn't meant to be. I can't afford IVF and if I can't afford IVF, I can't afford adoption. I don't want to go either of those routes anyway but it pretty much stops at IUIs.

I feel like a dying dog on his last leg and hoping that a cat will saunter by and give me one of it's nine lives. I'm hoping for a chance in hell.