Scared: Update

I am officially less scared despite that the red, itchy swollen random patches came back with a vengeance at work today (hmm...maybe I am allergic to work). They are probably hives. Without actual allergy tests (aka big expense + pain in the butt) this cannot be confirmed but the doctor I begged to look at it said it's probably hives, manifested in an odd way. There are about a gillion causes of hives - mostly allergies. Stress and a few other things can cause them as well but while I have been CRAZY busy I don't feel like my stress levels are CRAZY high. So back to the Benadryl and we'll see what happens from there. Oy vey.