I’ve known for about 10 years that I would get hives from walnuts. It was always uncomfortable but nothing more. Itch, annoyance - hives on my arms. I’ve avoided them ever since and actually spread my screening process to all nuts. I don’t have a life threatening reaction to them but I really hate being itchy. I never had this as a kid through the end of my twenties.

Friday afternoon I took a bite of a cookie someone gave me. I felt the long forgotten burn before I spit it out. Walnuts. Then my eyes swelled shut and I got hives on the inside of my eyelids.

HIVES ON THE INSIDE OF MY EYELIDS. I have decided that I would rather sunburn my tongue than deal with that ever again.

Saturday I still had gravel eye. And I looked like I lost a fight with a pair of goggles. And I don’t wear goggles, so you can imagine the confusion when I had to attend an event with people I’ve known for a while. 

I’m not sure how much of an asset I was to the human resistance in the first place, but these days it is clear that I’m not even going to make a dent in the air if I take a blind swing. If the aliens come with a walnut spray, I’m sorry guys. You’re on your own.