The migraine is gone, happily. The pain isn’t. But I’m up and at ’em, ready for work to start before long. I don’t want to lose this little video: Five stitches you need to know if you’re a beginner crocheter…
Memories and migraines
I’m having a migraine and a worse-than-usual pain day in other respects. It’s making me grumpy. Also, it doesn’t seem to be possible to post to my regular Facebook feed from here. I can post to a Facebook page, so…
Yay! and Boo!
The good news: we’re finally done with the water boiling! It’s a good thing, too. The stores are all out of bottled water. The bad news: the girl has a nasty migraine 🙁 She was supposed to leave Friday afternoon…
The Value of Education for Chronic Illness Patients
Paula Kamen, author of All In My Head, talks about the value of education in coping with chronic illness in an excellent editorial in the New York Times, Leaving the Rabbit Hole. This passage, in particular, spoke to me: The…
Off to Use Up More Gas!
The girl woke up with a migraine. She has oral surgery today, so she might as well get all the feeling like crap over with in one day, right? Okay—I’d rather she didn’t have more ickiness on top of what’s…
Med Update
Topomax sucks.
Another Day, Another Doctor
I haven’t been posting a lot of personal stuff lately, largely hoping to avoid whinging too much about pain and such. I saw the new pain doc today, though, and I really like this practice much better than the first…
Growl
I was awakened this morning by a collections call—from a company that I paid on time! Their system is screwed up, as they admitted to me when I called them yesterday—but they STILL sent it to a damned collections agency…
Nice Morning
My morning started with a migraine threat. sambear drugged me, though, and left me in the nice dark room. That beat back the migraine. When I got up again a couple of hours later, Katie was up and eating, having…
We’re Home
The girl is on a migraine preventive now, instead of just taking meds when she gets a migraine or when she’s having an allergy shot (which always triggers a migraine). That’s a darned good thing, since the only rescue med…