So I've been at college for the last month or so, and I've been managing it really well so far! My dining hall is really good about food allergies so I've been pretty lucky in that regard. I mentioned earlier that I was a little concerned about using a communal laundry room because I react to a lot of different laundry detergents. I worked out a system with a friend in my dorm - she uses a detergent that I'm not allergic to, and we figure out a schedule and try to work it out so I can go and do my laundry right afterwards so her laundry load kind of rinses out other detergent residue. For the most part, that's been working out.
However, I think there was a miscommunication or something - either I didn't make it down to the laundry room immediately after my friend, or I put my laundry in the wrong machine. For whatever reason, I am currently covered in hives everywhere my clothes touched, so pretty much shoulders down. I took a shower and put on clothes that I know hadn't been washed with the current load, but I am itchy and extremely frustrated about being allergic to just about every laundry detergent in the world.