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I know - and here I am again, 22.50 Saturday night, stuck on the loo with excruciating stomach cramps (worst I've had for weeks), horrible poop (TMI - but mixed D and normal, yuck), wind and bloating. All this and I've eaten perfectly since Tuesday!! Been really careful, drunk loads of water etc. Grrr...

Hair's worked out really well, and everyone loves it (everyone saying it looks more "natural" than my natural hair colour of pale blonde!

), BUT (as Michele said in another post, isn't there always a 'but' for us all at the moment?!) I appear to have had a delayed allergic reaction to the dye... wouldn't you know?!

I did the 48hr patch test behind my ear, and even duplicated it on my inner elbow to be sure (considering my extreme reaction to the shampoo that my hands are still recovering from, whilst on the strongest cream you can get from the doc), but it was all fine - didn't even go pink. That didn't surprise me, as it's only a semi-permanent it only has peroxide in in it, not peroxide and amonia.

Anyway, so I used the dye, and the next morning the patch behind my ear was red raw and stinging. It still is, and now the skin's peeling off it and the back of my ear too. Then through the day today the redness has spread to my hairline and also my scalp a bit, and the skin's really tender (fine if I don't forget and suddenly scratch it). But worse, my ear and behind it has swollen up massively, and now spread to my cheek, and all down the side of my face to my neck!!!

J doesn't think it's the dye, because it took like 2 days for the reaction, but thinks it's my body's way of reacting to the stress about tomorrow. I think it's the dye, but don't really care - want it gone!

Have put cream on it, taken some Ibuprofen and also some Piriton to help if it is an allergic reaction. Beyond that I'm stumped. Besides, stuck to loo and have been all night so not much I could do anyway! Praying it's at least gone down a bit by tomorrow - only know how swollen it is from touch as haven't dared look in the mirror at it yet...

Anyway, to tomorrow, two changes of plan - 1) not wearing the dress any more (was trying so hard to 'dress it down' so we could eat out somewhere casual, and had major problems finding a bag to match my jeans

) - now wearing a vivid purple top I've only worn once, with gold beads on it (nicer than it sounds!), with some new jeans. Sorry to describe in so much detail - just so excited, this is the first time I've been out at night for probably more than a year, and to someone who used to go out 3 or 4 nights a week it's utter madness!!

Other change in plan is that we're not going to eat out after all - we're going to take a picnic to the room, full of loads of safe food! That way we can eat in the hotel, then go to a couple of bars in the immediate vicinity of the hotel, which cuts out a taxi drive to a restaurant, and reduces the possibility of restaurant food setting me off. Hopefully should help ensure a better evening!

Keep your fingers crossed I can sort my tum out for tomorrow! Plan to get to hotel for 2, so we've got the whole afternoon in the funky room. Think I'll be demanding a massage...

It's worked out really well - we've spent all day together today, then we're off to the hotel and out tomorrow, then it's my actual birthday on Monday - so I'm having a 3 day birthday!!

xx

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