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…
Memitude: Who am I?
From and : You know how sometimes people on your friend’s list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think “Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they…
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…
Sick Baby
shadowkatt could use some love. She’s in bed with yet another migraine. She’s missed all but one night of dance classes this week, all of them last week, and martial arts last Saturday. Much of that time was spent huddled…