If you've never had a migraine headache, consider yourself lucky. I woke up this morning with a little bit of a stiff neck, but I figured it was just from sleeping funny. So I went to work and had just tucked into my weekly half-breakfast burrito (ahhh, makes Wednesdays worth living) when I started to go blind. Like many folks who get migraines, I start off with an "aura" with is the headaches way of saying "Hi there, remember me? I'm going to ruin the entire rest of your day, but before I do that I'm going to make you think about how much that's going to suck by making you hallucinate for an hour! Wheeee!"
I have drugs, and visit my neurologist every year or so, but I don't think the drugs really do anything. I used to be a believer in the whole "cup of coffee cure" to help speed up relief, but once I read that migraines aren't actually caused by vasoconstriction I think the placebo effect stopped. So now I'm just screwed whenever I get one. So I ended up going home and sleeping for 4 hours or so. By then it was too late to go back into work, so I went back to bed. A whole day wasted, and which probably guaranteed that I will have to go into work Saturday. Blech.
This really makes me wish that I could get a "do over" on a day. I don't really need one *every* day. I think they should be like vacation days, where you get a certain amount every year, which you can use whenever you need to. This led me to think up the top 5 days in my life that I would have used a "do over" on if I had them:
I have drugs, and visit my neurologist every year or so, but I don't think the drugs really do anything. I used to be a believer in the whole "cup of coffee cure" to help speed up relief, but once I read that migraines aren't actually caused by vasoconstriction I think the placebo effect stopped. So now I'm just screwed whenever I get one. So I ended up going home and sleeping for 4 hours or so. By then it was too late to go back into work, so I went back to bed. A whole day wasted, and which probably guaranteed that I will have to go into work Saturday. Blech.
This really makes me wish that I could get a "do over" on a day. I don't really need one *every* day. I think they should be like vacation days, where you get a certain amount every year, which you can use whenever you need to. This led me to think up the top 5 days in my life that I would have used a "do over" on if I had them:
- The week of my last year at bible camp - yep, every day. It's the week that the pretty girl pretended to like me in order to get her friends to dump mud on me, the week I got into my one and only fight (I lost, badly), the week I was publicly humiliated in front of the whole camp during skit day, and the week I said the cruelest thing I've said to another person (which resulted in the public humiliation, which I admittedly deserved). Whoever thought bible camp was harmless never reckoned with junior high kids' particular brand of evil.
- The day I asked Laura Sommer out in ninth grade. She said no, obviously - otherwise this would be on a different list. In retrospect, I can understand why, I was a complete weirdo and I was moving to a different town in, like, three weeks. But we could've worked it out!
- The day I got caught shoplifting. Damn little debbies and their irresistible deliciousness!
- The day my pant leg got caught in my bike chain and I had to take them off and run back to my grandma's house in my little kid tighty-whiteys.
- The day I hit the neighbor girl with the bowie knife when she wouldn't move out of in front of the hay bale. I still can't believe I didn't get arrested or grounded. We eventually became pretty good friends, but that one day was pretty uncomfortable.
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