Jacob Bresowsky 10-30-20
October Diary Entries
This month I started to get allergy shots for my many many allergies. I have to get one shot in each arm every Friday for six months. Then I go every other week for two years. I have been to my pulmonologist/allergist so much that everyone in his office knows me which is both funny and sad at the same time. Luckily, we do not have to go to the city anymore for the doctor because I am able to get my shots on Staten Island and the office is only like an hour drive there and back. When I am in the doctor’s office, I am in there for about ten minutes because I get my shots and leave. Last time I went to the doctor I got bad news; the news was that we cannot get a real Christmas tree because of course one of the trees that I am allergic to is a pine tree. Now we need to get a fake tree this year which is kind of a bummer but what can you do? Hopefully we are able to get a real Christmas tree next Christmas we shall see. I cannot really tell if the allergy shots are helping that much yet, but they are still making my special concoction of allergens just for me so maybe when I get those shots, I will start to feel the difference.
Recently my family and I had a covid scare. It all started when my dad went to my uncle to get shots for testosterone because is hormones are messed up because he had two brain tumors. Two day after my dad went to get his shot my uncle called him and said that him and my aunt both had covid. As soon as we heard this, we were all nervous because if my dad got covid it would most likely be very dangerous because his immune system is not as strong because he had two brain humors. To make matters worse I saw my dad when he got home from my uncle’s house and that same day I went to my friend’s and one of them has an infant little brother who was premature. So, for obvious reasons I was very nervous for my dad and I was afraid I had passed it on to my friend and he would pass it on to his brother. When we had found out about my aunt and uncle having covid we got tested and my friends got tested. Miraculously no one in my house or my friends had gotten it. What is even weirder is that somehow my cousins did not get covid even though they are in the same house as my aunt and uncle. This experience just showed me how unpredictable this virus really is.
For the past four months I have been trying to get a job anywhere and everywhere except for restaurants because that is the one place I will not work at. That is because other people’s food grosses me out way too much than it should, and I cannot deal with people especially hungry people. The places that I have applied to are Bed Bath and Beyond, Target, US Polo, Banana Republic, GAP, Old Navy, Target and others. I have not even gotten a reply from all these places. To make matters worse two of my friends applied to Target too and they heard back the next day and Target still has not emailed me back, safe to say I did not get that job either. I got rejected for so many jobs that my dad asked me if I did the application wrong. I think the reason that I am not getting hired is because I do not really have any good hours to work because my classes are at all times of the day. Also, I would only be able to work for two or three weekdays in the afternoon or at night and the weekend. I might try to apply to more places soon but as of right now I have lost all hope.