Well, today I'm trying something different. As I still seem to be having difficulty writing regularly, I want to test myself a bit and just write a blog post cold. I mean, it's warm in here, don't worry. I just mean I'm not going to figure out a topic and then research it a bit, write it and do two to three editing passes. That's my usual process, but I want to do something different. As a result, you may well need to prepare yourself for some possible rambling, maybe no clear conclusion to the post, and possible (though maybe unlikely, as I correct while I type, usually) spelling errors.
I'm not all that sure what I'm going to write about, to be honest. Maybe start off with the fact that even though I write it a lot, I misspell the word hemhorrage all the time. Ah. This time for instance, I left out an H. Hemhorrhage. Nope, that's not it either. Hmm. Hemorrhage? Ha! Got it, Finally. So I misplaced the H. Let's see if I can remember it this time. I'll try again at the end of the post.
The past few days have been difficult for me. Since Wednesday, I've had a migraine. As I had to deal with these, on average, every other day before my brain injury, I used to know what to do to get them to go away.
I'm not so good at this anymore.
So, since Wednesday, I've taken a dose of acetaminophen once per day each day. It didn't help. I tried to sleep well. That didn't work. Today, I gave up and decided on having red meat for my protein at lunch (just so you know I totally misspelled protien back there, and again, just now. PROTEIN. Yeesh).
Obviously, a migraine is a bit concerning. Well, it's obvious to me, anyway. I'll catch you up. As I have mentioned, I had chronic migraine before the hemorrhage. It was a pretty difficult thing to deal with, as I could lose anywhere from 2-5 days per week to the whole migraine process. I had to develop coping strategies, alternative med regimens, and try out a couple of different prevention meds over the course of 8 years. I used many things from over the counter antihistamines to an anti-seizure med, to either prevent the migraines in the first place or to get rid of them once I had them. It was a complicated dance of treat, rest, or ignore.
Not that ignoring was easy. Migraines are demanding little buggers. They don't like to be ignored. They want all eyes on them. Probably why so many of us need dark rooms, so we can just keep our focus on that attention loving pain.
Anyway. I haven't had more than one migraine in the past 3+ years. That last migraine happened while I was in rehabilitation in 2019. So, it's been a while.
Well, all that blissful, brain-pain free time ended on Wednesday. I felt it start and convinced myself that it was just a normal headache (I've had a couple of those over the past three years), and that acetaminophen would likely fix it.
That didn't happen. I still had the headache when I came into therapies yesterday (Thursday). It was getting more stubborn, and I finally admitted it was a migraine when I began to feel the familiar, yet unliked, nausea develop. So, lacking any acetaminophen with me, I went and bought a 2 pack of extra strength pills at the dollar store and took those. No dice. Still had pain for the rest of the day. I just kind of shunted it off to the side, as I didn't really want to lose any more time to it.
After dealing with the pain through last night and then waking with it this morning, taking the last dose of acetaminophen I plan on taking this week, I decided my husband was right, and I would have to get a lightly caffeinated beverage with my lunch today, So, I got an iced tea, along with a steak and cheese wrap, potato salad, and a cookie (because cookies are good, and I'd had a headache for like 60 hours).
That has worked, for the most part.
That wraps up that experiment. True to my word, I didn't edit except for a couple of (to me egregious) grammatical errors as I was typing.
Oh right. Hemhorrhage. Nope. Dangit.
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