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Summer

Wow Summers coming, the tempatures rising slowly but surely, April and it's 25 degrees, I'm sure that there are a lot of people who are happy about that but I for one am not. Here in Croatia where I and my family live in a small village surrounded by fields and every house has a garden with a lawn, it's great to live here but and that's a big but what if like me you suffer from hayfever, a terrable allergy if you're a sufferer like me. Every month through the Summer you try different tablets or sprays but you can never find something that works, the doctor prescribes all sorts of things that might help but nothing does. Advertisements in the media all saying that their products work but they don't and you still suffer. Everybody cuts the grass at least once a week, the farmers are in their fields doing what they have to do to feed their animals with dry hay and what do you end up with pollen floating in the air everywhere and if you're like me it's hell on earth, the only time you feel better is when you eventually fall asleep just to wake up to the same symptoms as you do every day. What you may ask are the most common symptoms, they're the ones that I'm experiencing now, headaches as though you have a hang over from the night before, itchy and red eyes as though you're on some sort of drug, runny nose which won't stop no matter how many tissues you use, sneezing like you're coming down with a cold at the beginning of Summer, it's a terrible feeling and I'm sure that there are a lot of people like me who suffer the same way and I feel sorry for you. Maybe people laugh at you because you have hayfever but they don't know what it's like, I'm going to finish now as I have to put eye drops in because it's hard for me to write and I'm running out of tissues so if you're a sufferer I understand what you're going through and tomorrow when the doctor works or the chemist is open I'll go to get some tablets again and perhaps I'll feel better. 

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