New Theory About Bush

After seeing Spiderman 2 I am now wondering if maybe Bush’s inhibitor chip, that stops members of his administration from taking control of his mind, might be broken.

Tags: Spiderman 2, George W. Bush, humor

Pain, Pain Everywhere

My big plans for the three day weekend had been to get my hair “done”, exercise lots, re-organize my kitchen, clean house, and go see some movies — preferably Spiderman 2, Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Terminal. Most of the plans were ruined Friday evening when while walking, I got a sharp pain in the back of my right thigh and my right side just below my rib cage. Since I do sometimes get such a pain in my right side and am usually able to push through it, I tried to continue my walk, but the pain spread to the front of my right thigh so I turned around and headed home. By the time I got home, the pain had spread down my leg to my foot. I spent the rest of the evening on the sofa in pain — even the slightest pressure caused the pain to increase and only heat from a heating pad helped. The whole leg was sore to touch.

The next day, I had pain in my lower back that eventually spread to mid-back, but my leg was better. I went to Freeport and sat in the hairdresser’s chair for an hour and a half and decided there was no way I could sit for 2 hours in a theater that day. I did wander a little bit to a couple of stores to pick up some things I needed but then I went home and discovered that napping on my stomach was the most comfortable thing.

Sunday, my back was better but my leg was still sore-ish so I decided not to take everything out of every kitchen cabinet and climb up and down step-stools all day. I did manage to clean and vaccum my living room, fold and put away some clothes and tidy my bedroom a little, but I spent most of the day on the sofa either reclining or sitting for brief periods and I worked on a puzzle of the Grand Canyon while I watched my “Smallville” DVDs.

Monday, my leg was still sore but the pain wasn’t nearly as bad as the migraine I woke up with and kept all day. I even threw up part of my breakfast — and I was so relieved I did so because at least the nausea went away. I tried just moving around as sometimes that helps but it didn’t. Ultracet didn’t help. Zomig made me sleepy and I napped and it lessened the pain for a little while but the pain just came right back. I did clean and sweep my kitchen but didn’t get to re-organize it. I had wanted to clean the upstairs bathroom as well but didn’t get to it because of the pain. I ended up trying to work on the puzzle but I had the issue of having got to the hard part of it combined with the distracting migraine, so I ended up just watching more first season “Smallville.”

The pain did get less by the end of the night but this morning it came back shortly after waking and I’ve been struggling all day. This is one of the worst ones I’ve had since the beginning of the year. I have the floaters in my eyes in addition to the occassional silver speck. I’ve tried cold packs, sleeping, moving around, frozen coffee (frozen foods like milkshakes and ice cream often help…so does caffiene), OTC pills, prescription pills, massage…

One thing I will note is that yesterday morning while napping on the sofa — 2 naps in two days is very irregular for me as I usually only sleep at night and have problems with just that — I noticed a snore…something I’ve never been able to verify since I live alone. I am more concerned than ever that I have sleep apnea, which could be causing these migraines. If you think on it, the last neurologist thought my insomnia and sleeplessness might be causing the headaches/migraines so he treated it with sleeping meds, but sleeping meds probably don’t help sleep apnea since the problem there is that you just stop breathing while you sleep. I wonder if the sleeping meds weren’t helping to perpetuate the problem.

Anyway, today I have the headache and my left leg is killing me. It hurts if I get up and walk around. It hurts if I just sit at my desk. It also seems like no matter how I move, some other part of me hurts or aches.

Also, I bit into the apple I brought for a snack and wouldn’t you know it, the whole thing was bad inside. The outside was firm and unbruised but the inside was all brown and icky.

Not a good way to start off July…

Tags: migraine, Spiderman 2, Farenheit 9/11, wellness