Waiting While I’d Rather Be Doing Other Stuff

I put in a call to my GP this morning about the pain in my stomach, right side and back, as well as my migraine, bloatiness and lack of appetite.  I said straight out that I’m not going back to the E.R. (or E.D. — interesting that since that series started most actual E.R.’s now want to be called Emergency Departments) and I don’t want to pop oxycodone all the time — makes me too sleepy and discombobulated, and that’s saying something.

As it is all morning I’ve been trying to pry my eyes open.  I can’t decide if it’s not feeling well, leftovers from last night’s oxycodone, or just my regular morning meds…or a combination of them all.  It’s very hard to program with your eyes closed.  OK It’s not hard to program that way.  It’s hard to do the analysis part of my job that way and I’ve been trying to go through papers and notes and code from 9 months ago and figure out what was done and why and what wasn’t done and why not and who decided what because last Friday someone got ants in their pants to actually finally go-live with their project after letting it sit for 9 months and it still doesn’t have anyone in charge.  Oy!

So, while my brain is trying to sleep and wake up and sort out my lack of filing system, I’m now apparently waiting for the surgeon to get out of surgery around 3pm to talk to my GP to discuss what to do about me and my pain and my possible 2nd gallstone attack.

And what I’d really rather be doing is going to the grocery store or paying someone to go to the grocery store and having someone do my dishes while I take a nap or watch my finches.  In fact, I still need to get a photo for today and I’m trying to figure out how to capture a picture that represents the pain I’m feeling.  Any ideas?

Tags: pain, migraine, gallbladder, gallstone, surgeon, GP, grocery store, project365, sleepy

The Migraine Continues

And I’ve got a continuing sharpish pain where my gall bladder is.  None of the usual meds seem to be doing anything to help the migraine.  I’m getting ready to go bury my head in a snowdrift, if I can find one big enough.

I haven’t had one this bad since I moved.

Tags: migraine, gall bladder

Just Shoot Me

O.K. So, I think I forgot to take my meds yesterday morning and I’m paying for it today. Otherwise, I’m just really sick today.

Pugly woke me up at 7am because he wanted to go out.  I got up, took him out to do his business, put some birdseed in the feeder, fed the animals, and went back to bed.  I woke up again at noon feeling much worse and with a migraine.  I’d been having weird dreams mixing HBO’s  Rome with HGtv’s whole line up of home improvement and house hunting shows.

I’ve been very ill since then.  I’ve been wishing I would throw up. My stomach hurts so bad that it’s painful to touch and when I got up to do something my mother has been asking me to do (she wanted a photo of a curtain she mailed me hanging up to see if it fit before working on the next one), I felt a sharp pain where my gall bladder is.

I’m dizzy.  Not sleepy.  Even blinking hurts my migraine.  I’m horribly thirsty, but the act of drinking makes my stomach hurt and aggravates my migraine.  I’ve had a Diet Coke and water plus some tuna salad today.  Oh, and I’ve taken my meds and a Maxalt for the migraine.

There’s so much I wanted to do today, but I’ve gotten nothing done.  I don’t even trust myself to walk down the stairs to the basement to wash clothes.

Tags: migraine, wellness, health

Thursday Thirteen Things I Wonder About (#19)

My mind works in strange and mysterious ways…

Thirteen Things about N. Mallory

1. How often do other people change out the underwear in their underwear drawer? I mean, so they schedule a regular amount of time? Twice a year maybe to go through and throw out all the ratty old underwear they wouldn’t wear on vacation or on a date or in front of their cats and replace them?
2. Speaking of underwear, am I the only one who’s ever bought new underwear just so I didn’t have to wash clothes? Or whole new outfits even? Or a couple of days-worth of clothes?
3. What do other people think about during their commute to work? Do they just space out and not remember how they got to work? Do they think about the AIDs issue in Africa, last night’s Daily Show, what they’re going to make for dinner? Am I the only one who has whole imaginary conversations and arguments with myself that I might have with other people that just piss me off further when I’m already pissed off or help convince me more that I’m right about something?…What?
4. Do other people worry that they might look up and find someone staring in their window at them, especially at night? Every night? Even on the second story? Or driving in their car? Especially when looking in the rear view mirror?
5. Why can’t someone invent a spray that discourages my puppy from poo-pooing on my rug? They make stuff to clean it up. They make stuff to “neutralize” the smell. Can’t they make something that makes him sniff that spot and think “naughty!”?
6. Why can’t all my pets learn to use the toilet like me? Is it really that difficult? I mean, they’re always watching me, studying me when I use it. Surely by now they’ve figured it out.
7. Why do people think South Park is funny? Seriously. I just don’t get it.
8. Why don’t Target or WAL-Mart carry white floating shelves? Do people really only decorate in dark colors anymore? Don’t the people who order stock for them watch HGtv or TLC at all?
9. Was my old apartment building filled with mold like my crazy old neighbor claimed and was it making me sick? I have to say that I’ve had a reduction in headaches since I moved into the house. Though before I moved into the apartment, I suffered from chronic migraines for 20+ years. However, the fibromyalgia did become a problem while I was in the apartment and it’s been better too. Granted, I’ve been eating my strict pseudo-vegetarian diet and doing aquatic physical therapy. It’s hard to tell. But the mildew problem on my furniture and in my kitchen is gone now that I’m in the house. (The allergist said I wasn’t allergic.)
10. If my mom isn’t coming for my gall bladder surgery, who is going to drive me to and from and take care of me and is it wrong to be annoyed at my grandmother for taking up my mother’s time? My grandmother isn’t actually physically ill, but she is bipolar. She has to be watched because she won’t take her meds or eat like she should because she’s decided she doesn’t want to and she didn’t like the nursing home she was in. She demanded that my parents take her with them from Ohio to New Mexico for a visit after Thanksgiving and she shows no signs of wanting to go home. My dad shows no signs of wanting to take care of his own mother so it falls on my mom. So, now that I have surgery scheduled in February, I don’t have my mommy to take care of me and I’m a little disappointed. Does that sound too selfish?
11. Has TNT been showing a 3rd season of The Closer and I’ve missed it? I think I missed this season of Monk too. They don’t seem to be showing them regularly. When will there be a new season of Eureka? There are simply too many shows I like now. It’s too much to keep up with and they’re all on at odd times and their seasons are all weird and even the DVR is getting confused.
12. Has anyone else noticed that Amazon’s Prime shipping is not worth the price anymore? Very few things are covered as “free shipping” and very few things are included in their “expedited” 2-day shipping either. I almost always am paying added shipping costs even on some books and for standard shipping, some things aren’t shipping for weeks, even two of the books I ordered (that I don’t have time to read). Since I usually buy $100-worth of stuff at a time, I don’t understand why I never qualify for free anything. Why am I paying for this extra service?
13. Do people only come here to read the Thursday Thirteen? My uncle told me that one of those news channels said that most blogs have only one reader. Am I posting to myself the rest of the week?

Tags: Thursday Thirteen, blog meme, meme, bloghopping, WAL-Mart, Target, the puppy, South Park, underwear, The Closer, Monk, Eureka, T.V., Amazon.com, mold, mildew, fibromyalgia, migraines

My Kind Of Luck

Something told me that I was tempting fate last night as I took both my new 10mg of ambien and an oxycodone for my migraine as I was going to bed at 9:30pm.  I even told Pugly that with my luck I’d get paged since I was on call.  But the regular MaxAlt migraine med just wasn’t cutting the migraine pain yesterday.  Not even a dent.  In fact, it was worse by bedtime.

Well, wouldn’t you know it, at 3am, I got paged.  It could have been a five minute deal really except that it turned out that the translator that was misbehaving wasn’t one I was familiar with.  The translator happened to be an outgoing one and it looked like it was working fine but that whatever was on the other end wasn’t accepting the data.  Here’s where the problem came in.  I couldn’t find any documentation saying what application the translator was associated with.  Hours later when I found one tiny mention in a file that wasn’t with the other documentation, I thought it was misleading.  At least it misled me.  Phone calls were made; people were paged; pages weren’t returned.

Let’s just say that it was after 9am before I finally tracked down what application it belonged to and the Help Desk had me page someone who didn’t work at the hospital anymore.  Talk about outdated information.  I finally found someone in Radiology where the application was and spoke with them.  They had just discovered the problem five minutes before I finally got to them.  At that time, the interface had been down about 8 ½ hours.

It’s still down.  They’re working on it.

Needless to say that I’m very tired and sleepy.  I can feel the hint of the migraine taunting me in the back of my head somewhere but at the moment I’m too tired to care.

My small victory is that my complaint about the undocumented translator did not go unheard.  Much to the grumbling, pouting, foot-stomping diva-tude chagrins of my fellow teammates, we’ve been told to get our act together in the next 6 weeks.  Not only are we to have everything documented, but it all has to be in Visio.  FW, king of the divas, is pissed because he apparently hates Visio and prefers Word.  He at least has been trying to keep everything documented but it just wasn’t in Visio.  So he threw a real pissy fit.  He looked just like Pugly, all wide-eyed and foot-stomping and pouting, does when Needy is getting away with something he doesn’t like.  GE on the other hand, stupidly admitted that he never documents anything — something I have commented to him about before and for this very reason.

So, it all has to be in Visio and in one place and we all have to do it.

Meanwhile, Radiology just got their side working and FW is petulantly working on changing the error message so it includes the pager number of the Radiology DO since one of my complaints on top of everything else was that even once I figured out who the application belonged to, no one seemed to know who the DO was or what the DO pager was, especially not the Help Desk, who is supposed to know these things or the night time desk support.

Oy.

Tags: work, sleep, migraine

112 Million

Migraine Attacks cause an estimated 112 million bedridden days a year.

Source: Woman’s Day, April 18, 2006, p. 50

Tags: migraine

Closing The Door On The Botox Option

Well, I had my second Botox treatment last week. I meant to blog about it then, but with all the problems with my web host, it got lost in the shuffle.

I handled it somewhat better. No passing out this time. However, knowing about the 22 shots and what was coming was worse, I think. I felt very ill the whole time, very light-headed. It wasn’t nearly as interesting an experience. I did keep trying to focus on my happy thought, which happened to be Pugly since I was going to go see him immediately after.

The good news is that I kind of think that the Topomax in combination with the Botox is working. The bad news is that my insurance, Anthem, will not be covering my Botox treatment anymore after July 1rst. That little tiny vial which only contains an even tinier amount of toxin currently only costs me a $30 co-pay every few months, but it would cost $600 without the insurance. Mind you, Botox is the treatment of last resort for migraine sufferers; it’s the option doctors take when medications don’t work. This is not something I want to inject into my body. Heck, I don’t even like taking medications. Every time I get to drop a medication from my daily list, I’m ecstatic. I used to be one of those people who was into the whole all-natural lifestyle idea.

So, I guess I’m upset that I pay for insurance that repeatedly thinks it’s not cost effective to treat my conditions. I understand that I’m the expensive end of the gamble, but maybe the guy across from my cubicle never goes to the doctor. I don’t smoke. I don’t drink. I’ve never done illegal drugs. There’s no risk of pregnancy or STDs. All I ask is that I get what I pay for, which is often more than my co-pay.

I’m tired of someone deciding whether or not my daily agony fits on his bottom line.

Tags: botox, topomax, migraine, health insurance

Medically Me

So, I think the topomax is actually working. I’m on my second week and I’ve only had one migraine and that was actually due to two days of bad sleep due to no ambien due to ran out. Though, admittedly, I had initial success with topomax when they tried me on it years ago. Let’s just hope the botox/topomax combo is the magic combo.

The only problem with the topomax is the random numbness it causes in my face, fingers, hands and feet. It’s not really a problem so much as a weirdness. It’s a little distracting and there’s no rhyme or reason to it. It’s kind of like that weird tingling just right before some part of you completely “wakes up” from being numb after laying on it wrong. I suppose this is better than brain-melting-wanna-die-pain so I’ll take it.

I’m also less depressed than last week which is a good thing. Had my session with my shrink last night. She wants me to do another 10 week therapy group; this one on cognative thought therapy. I’ve been interested in this kind of therapy for a bit so I’m a bit excited about it. I think it’ll be helpful so I’m going to do it.

We talked a little bit about just how depressed I was last week. Her concern of course is always whether or not I’m depressed enough to hurt myself. I confessed to her that my mother is always worried about that too and sometimes she tells me that in words and she did this past weekend, but the truth is that I have a very vivid memory of after my cousin killed himself, my mother begged me to promise her never to let it get that bad and never to kill myself like that. I guess I just couldn’t put my mother through that. Which I guess is ironic since my family has such strong pro-assisted suicide views. Huh.

Anyway, I am better this week. I’ve got a new cause — I’m going to be organizing fundraisers for the New Orleans Public Library here in Maine though I’m not quite sure how to go about it yet. I’ve got a new movie buddy. I’ve got a new therapy group. I think I might look into getting a military pen pal (and, yes, keep politics out of it).

So, making plans. Sounds kind of optimistic.

Tags: topomax, wellness, migraine, depression, suicide, therapy, botox

The Absolutely Last Chance

Well, I had a chat with the neurologist’ nurse practitioner this week. I explained that I was still having bad headaches 3 out of 4 days and that I’d had really bad migraines about once a week for several days sinc the botox treatment. She had a different opinion than I did; she seems to think that this is an improvement for me and that it’s worth trying a second treatment.

Of course, since it didn’t help me more, we’re going to try a preventative medication in addition to the botox with the idea that the botox helps enough to allow the preventative to make a difference. I’ve got a new prescription of Topomax, which I’ve tried before with initial success, that I will be starting on 25mg and stepping up each week until I get to 100mg about the time of the second botox treatment.

Unfortunately if this doesn’t work, she was quite clear that there is nothing else they can do for me. This is my last hope from the medical world. Not a pleasant thought — that I will be in pain every day the rest of my life. Makes me want to cry actually.

Tags: botox, migraine, topomax

I Am Alive & Going To England

I appologize for seemingly abandoning this blog. The truth is that I’ve been distracted by more than a few things in my life:

• My grandmother’s death, as you know, took me somewhat by surprise and has caused me to do a lot of self-inspecting. Plus, I want to be there for my mother who I think took it a lot harder than me. Plus, the planning for the memorial service the weekend before Valentine’s Day in Florida.
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  Tags: Faith, God, Spirituality, migraine, wedding, England, paranoia, Samuel Alito, discombobulated, fibromyalgia

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My First Botox Experience

O.K. So because I suffer from chronic migraines and have not found preventative drugs to be effective, my neurologist proposed Botox injections. Apparently, they have had great success using Botox on patients who did not respond well to the preventatives.

Mind you, I’ve always been uneasy around needles (who isn’t?) and I’m not fond of the idea of having something that’s labelled “toxin” injected into my “temple” of a body. However, After 34 years of pain and a multitude of futile attempts to lessen it, I was desperate.

So, today was my first treatment.

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Tags: botox, migraine

The Season of Hat Hair Is Upon Us

Well, I apologize for my recent lack of posting. After Nano, I got distracted by real life. I’ve been ill, I’ve had a severe migraine, I had to cook gumbo and a cherry chocolate pie (recipes now at The Weekend Chef) for a holiday party, and my cats gave me The Movies computer game as an early Christmas present.

I ended up having to go to the doctor on Friday about my digestive trouble as my throat was raw from the stomach acid that was doing it’s imitation of a volcano. I woke up choking on the acid Thursday night. So, they’re doing some blood-work and have put me on prevacid. The blood-work is to see if I have some sort of internal bacterial infection. I’m actually hoping that’s what they find because otherwise, I can’t imagine what else could be wrong.

They also put me on a bland-ish diet. I’m not terrible thrilled about that, but I’ve already noticed the difference. No more Italian red sauce foods.

Then I got one of the worst migraines in a while on Saturday and the migraine medicine I’d been most recently prescribed didn’t do diddly to help. Since I couldn’t mix meds, I had to wait more than 24 hours to take some zomig, which did dent it for a while. I ended up calling in sick on Monday because I was still feeling crappy and I had no clean clothes to wear to work.

Now, my insurance won’t refill the prescribed prescription again until January and I’m not g Tuesday oing to pay $220 for 12 pills so I don’t know what I’m going to do. I left a message on the neurologist’s machine but she never called me back.

I’ve got a growing headache today, which I think might have been triggered by my earmuffs, but I’m not taking anything for it. I’m just hoping it’s going to go away on its own.

Tags: wellness, migraine

Stop The World! I’m Feeling Motion Sick!

Seriously.

I’ve had a bad migraine for…as long as I can remember at this point.

O.K. I’ve actually had one every day since last Wednesday morning, I believe. They came. I medicated. They went away for a bit. There were side effects.

But this one I’ve had since Saturday afternoon/evening. I’ve tried several medications — following the doctor’s directions of not taking different ones within 24 hours of each other. At the moment, I feel slightly better than last night and this morning when I was praying to throw up and get it over with — though if memory serves, the action of throwing up usually makes the migraine worse.

I contemplated stabbing my forehead, where most of the pain is currently focused, repeatedly with a plastic fork around lunch time today but I managed to resist, if only because I didn’t want to have to explain to the strangers in group therapy what happened; they might think I’m crazy or something.

Anyway, maybe I should have stayed home today, but I didn’t want to take a PDO…still, I’m extremely light sensitive and unusually horribly sound sensitive — normally, I can handle the soothing tones of light jazz and R&B or my new age playlist, but today, every little noise pounds through my entire body like someone is driving a nail through me. Keeping my eyes closed doesn’t relieve the pain, but it does shift the pain a little or maybe it’s just a different kind of pain. I can feel my face is all flushed. I feel like I have a huge portruding forehead like Brain in Pinky & The Brain. There’s nothing comforting about feeling the blood pulsating through your back.

Not to mention, I left my sunglasses at home and today is the first sunny day we’ve had in over a week. *sigh*

Tags: migraine

Adventures In Neurology

I went to see my new neurologist today.

Personally, I hadn’t been interested in acquiring a new neurologist since moving to Maine. It seemed to me that they were pretty useless as the two I saw in New Orleans never really figured anything out and didn’t seem to run any tests and one of them dropped me because he said there was nothing else he could do for me.

Anyway, the new GP wanted me to go because my migraines and headaches are getting more frequent and painful again, but my blood pressure is staying gloriously normal.

So, I went.

And when I got there, there was a problem with my insurance…sort of…basically my insurance will only pay for visits to doctors that my GP has refered me to and that requires paperwork and after two months, the GPs office hadn’t sent it yet. After a conversation with the GP’s desk clerk, it turns out that whoever entered the order and scheduled me, did so without entering the referral information. Hopefully that gets worked out because it’s going to really make me sick to get a real bill from the neurologist I didn’t want to see in the first place. Heh.

However, I do like the new neurologist. First of all, she’s a woman. I have found that many male doctors are quite dismissive and seem to think that most of women’s ailments are in their heads; I guess it’s because they’ve never had the experience of PMS or a PMS-triggered migraine. I found her to be very understanding. I also liked that she’d already looked over my records from my previous neurologists and knew what had already been tried. I liked that she seemed to be open to my thoughts — for example, I think I have a sensitivity to light that causes my face to flush when I have a migraine or have one coming on. I’ve never read of anyone else having that issue but she at least said that it was quite possible because I’m so fair and fair people have extra sensitivity of things.

Anyway, so she doesn’t think I should bother trying any more preventative treatments because basically I’ve tried all the ones out there. She gave me some samples of migraine pain meds to try and if I find one that works well for me, she’ll call in a prescription — wow, I don’t have to waste tons of money on meds that don’t work! Since the other preventatives don’t work, I am now a candidate for botox. The paperwork has been started to convince my insurance it’s for medical reasons, not shallow ones. Kinda scary though.

She also told me to stop taking Tylenol completely. It’s obvious it does nothing for me. Other drugs to give up are ultracet and vicadin as they are pretty useless, though they may have helped at one time.

I thought it was interesting that she thinks IBS and migraines are linked. She said that people with too high serotonin levels have constipation and people with too low serotonin levels have diahrrea. I know that a lot of people think migraines are due to a serotonin inbalance in the brain. Interesting theory.

Oh, and of course she told me to either start exercising or start reducing my caffeine intake (take a few months to get it down to 16oz a day). I’m pretty sure she eventually wants me to do both. Oy.

Tags: migraine, botox

Drug-induced Discombobulated Thoughts — 10/03/05

• After two nights of weird dreams and extremely disturbing nightmares (including one where I think I dreamt I was possessed) and 36 hours of a migraine that just won’t go away, I wish I’d called in today. Suddenly I can’t keep my eyes open — which is frustrating since I’m also dizzy and in pain.
• I’m considering going home at lunch.
• I wish the cleaning fairies would visit my house while I’m at work.
• For some reason, Thunderbird will not delete downloaded emails from Spamkiller.
• The funniest part of Ocean’s 12 was when the guys were telling Tess, played by Julia Roberts, how to act like Julia Roberts.

Tags: discombobulated, Julia Roberts, migraine

The Good, The Bad, & The O.K.

Well, I visited the doctor today. I had an appointment to get my Depo shot on Wednesday but the daily headaches had become a 3 day migraine that left me bent over my toilet at 2am last night, so I called and got an appointment with her. Obviously the vicodin no longer works.

The Bad news, of course, is the migraine and nausea. The doctor has given me a prescription for Zomig. We’ll see if that works. It sometimes takes a while to kick in if I remember right. She also gave me something for the nausea. I’m becoming frustrated by the being forced to do nothing much.

The Good news is that she did a general physical check and says that I don’t appear to have any symptoms of a brain tumor. Apparently she can tell that by shinging a bright blinding light in my eyes.

Anyway, I figured since I’d been having hot flashes and extended migraine that my blood pressure would be sky high. However, it was 118/78 which is extremely good for me. So, that would be my O.K. news.

However, to let you know how ill I feel, I actually threw out part of my lunch. I couldn’t eat it and I didn’t snack in the afternoon. I mean, there’s a reason I’m back in my fat dress. I can’t seem to stop eating. So it’s a catch-22, I can remain ill and waste away or I can feel better and fight the compulsive eating.

Tags: migraine, Depo Provera, Zomig, blood pressure, wellness

Wild Migraine Swings

I started off feeling o.k. this morning despite having overslept. I was fine on the ride to work and after I arrived for a while.

It was really weird because I was halfway through eating breakfast when suddenly there was a stabbing pain in my head and I felt ill eating. It’s very frustrating because I always used to look forward to my shredded wheat/yogurt/fruit breakfast, but I really felt that I’d throw up if I ate another bite.

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Tags: migraine, Depo Provera, Ultracet, Vicodin

Contemplating the Benefit of a Hole in the Head

Trepanation was used a long time ago for a headache cure. Evidence from neolithic skulls dating from 7,000 to 3,000 BC showed our ancient ancestors attempted to let the headache demons out by a procedure known today as trepanation. It’s actually pretty simple. All you need is a hard pointed object and a skull. Using the hard, pointed object, a hole is made in the skull. Simple, n’est pas? [“Playing With a Full Deck”]

In the movie Pi, Max Cohen has these horrible blinding, dehibilitating migraines and he often contemplates using a power drill on his head to put an end to the pain. Eventually, he does take that solution and survives — a little less brilliant than when the movie started but in less pain.

For people who’ve never experienced migraines, there’s really no words to describe the actual agony of it. Also, migraines come in all shapes and sizes and some of us have been able to work through them at certain pain levels, while others are knocked out of life for hours to days at a time.

A 12-year old migraine sufferer wrote an excellent description of her experience, which sounds fairly typical: “At first I was really scared because I didn’t know what was going on in my head. My face feels like it’s splitting in two. I feel like barbed wire is going in and around my head with sharp points sticking in it. I would like other(s) to know that if they experience migraine they are not alone.” [“Migraine Myths”]

I used to try to explain it in this way. Imagine if my head is one of those glass balls with the light show inside where the pink, blue and white tentacles of light ran here and there along the edge of the glass ball and would follow your finger if you ran it along the outside. Now imagine that the light/engergy is actually pain. If something, even a barrett, touches my head, the pain rushes to that spot for a bit. The pain itself is constant and often moving for me. The chronic migraines are almost always on the verge of being too painful to go through the basic routine of life but staying steadily just there. No relief or short relief.

My second cousin couldn’t figure out how I could live like this but the truth is that I do not have a choice, do I? I’m a single 30-something who doesn’t live at home (and for good reason). If I let every migraine knock me into bed for the duration, I’d never make enough money to pay my bills. Then I’d be homeless with migraines. I find you do what you have to do most of the time.

Today it feels like my forehead has swollen to three times it’s normal size and something is pushing to get out.

Therefore, I’m contemplating the power drill option of Pi. After all, releasing the pressure, the evil demons inside there, might be the answer to my problems, right? Sometimes it really does feel like if I could just poke a hole there, the pain would go away and the pressure wrould reduce and I would be o.k. again.

(BTW, it’s not easy to have a sprained back and a migraine at the same time either.)

Tags: migraine, trepanation, wellness

Discombobulated Thoughts for Aug. 14, 2005

• I’ve been partially lazy and partially migrainy all weekend and therefore haven’t gotten everything I wanted to do this weekend done. Though all the dresser drawers at least are all back in the dressers.
• I’ve watched way too much Night Court on TV Land this weekend.
• I am really having problems sleeping at night. I got paged twice in the middle of the night Friday and so was wary of taking the ambien last night in case they paged me again.
• They didn’t…and I tossed and turned.
• I actually made a lot of changes to the website while I was laying in bed.
• I’m not sure if I like the way the ads look between the posts.
• The impending drama of the DragonCon vacation has already started. El is already trying to get me involved in something regarding some guy she doesn’t want to see.
• I need to cut back on soda.
• I think it’s amusing that so many people come here searching for nose piercing advice.
• I think I’m going to get a tattoo after my parents leave — I want to gauge their reaction to the nose piercing.

Tags: discombobulated, migraine, DragonCon

Discombobulated Thoughts — August 8, 2005

• My apartment looks like a national disaster hit it.
• I’ve scheduled myself for a theraputic massage and a pedi/mani on Saturday.
• The migraine is just a mild headache today but the nausea appears to still be present. I almost didn’t go to work as a result.
• I have got to work on this presentation on medical uses of leeches tonight. This may not be a good thing what with the nausea.
• I need to stop at Wal-mart on my way home. I hate going to Wal-mart.
• I need to make a to-do list of everything that needs to be done before DragonCon and everything that needs to be done before 9/16 when my parents arrive. Maybe I’ll make that a sticky post…hmmmm…
• My headache’s getting worse again. Maybe I’ll leave early.

Tags: discombobulated, migraine