WARNING: what you are about to read is entirely dramatic. proceed with caution.
what you are about to read is a version of my own personal hell. i know there are far more problems and i am a healthy gal, but this... well this was pretty much one of the worst times of my life. again, proceed with caution :)
yesterday was a day just like any day. i woke up, got dressed, made some not-so-great-tasting banana, chocolate chip and oatmeal muffins..... (they were TOO healthy), got the boys ready, got dressed and BAM!
my eyesight went blurry, i felt as though my eyes crossed, my balance went haywire and the slight feeling of this nasty headache arose. by this time i know what is coming. it's a migraine. i do have a prescription for these terrible things but when you haven't got one in almost two years you seem to misplace your medication. i finished about my duties to make it to the chiropractor which i know would help and grabbed a few alieve's. i just about got done with everything i needed to do to get me out of the house when it became too powerful. so there it was. me, my two kids and this nasty migraine which knocks me off of my feet.
gavin was too sweet and helped me get jude ready to go, he opened the doors and gave maddy her food. once he got settled into the car he told me how sorry he was that this was happening to me. WHAT A SWEET CHILD. we got ourselves into the car and headed to grandmas. now, normally i would of bunkered down in my own house, but i was determined to get to the chiro and to my moms house (surprise, surprise that she didn't have her phone charged) so i could drop off my kids. well, that car ride, the you know, seven or so blocks to drive was too much. i immediately got out and threw up all over the side of her garage. because if you have a migraine you usually get this horrible nausea that accompanies it. i ran into her house, and continued my vomiting for the next 30 minutes. by the way i found my prescription- didn't mention that.
so my sweet mom took my kids, fed them and got them ready for naptime and quiet time while i took a 5 hour nap at 10 in the morning. bless her heart! i am pretty lucky this one came while my mom was home on mea.
imagine your worst hangover. the kind that the entire day after you can't hold down any food and can only lay in one position. that is what this nausea feels like. it's like one wrong move can send you screaming to the bathroom. and the headache- well, i've actually considered slamming my head into a brick wall- i'm pretty sure the pain is less than what a migraine feels like. now, i'm sure many other migraine sufferers might not have it this bad, but wow.... it's awful. our neighbor, jeromy, has them too so i get TONS of sympathy out of him and we compare stories--- it's actually quite pathetic. but normally i don't get much compassion from dan. actually if dan were home he would've probably left me at home with the kids and said to "man up" - whatever that should mean for a woman. to be honest i never gave it out either. how bad can a headache be?
i remember this girl rachel at juut used to get migraines all the time and she would walk around the salon with sunglasses on and crouch on her knees, begging to go home. i used to despise this. when you work in the salon business if your client, who was supposed to get a facial before the haircut you were giving her, and doesn't get that facial from the person they desire.... they are crabby. or they might cancel all-together- which puts you out of that client and a big gap in your day. but now i feel for her. the fact that sometimes she would have to service people while she was going through this is disgusting.
thankfully (if the past should repeat itself), i am good for another migraine for at least another year. crossing my fingers this is correct. i was so terrible yesterday... i actually swatted jude's head when he tried to grab for my glasses and i yelled at the boys far too much. i even missed my chiro appointment and didn't call and cancel because i was bobbing in the loo. we canceled the trip to the apple orchard and my house is a mess. i have a lot of making up to do today..... and yet, here i am, on the computer. uploading photos and writing on a blog i haven't had time for since the beginning of september.
good luck to any other migraine sufferer out there. i suggest you make it into see your local doctor, get a prescription and put it somewhere you know where it's at. as for me, currently, i am still battling a pretty severe headache. today though, it is not a migraine- i am helping it with alieve and mountain dew. a combination that never disappoints.
