Showing posts with label migraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label migraine. Show all posts

Thursday, June 02, 2011

Migraines and mornings

Danny woke up at 5:00 a.m., nursing and chewing my boob and fussing. I switched sides nursing him a few times, because that generally works to put him back to sleep, but then Tom got out of the bed at 6:00 so we were up. Now, it's Thursday and I've had a migraine since Monday afternoon. I went to the hospital yesterday for it and they gave me a shot in the ass and a bottle of pills with the warning that the pills would make me drowsy, and the headache is still here. So Danny and I got up, I had a big bawling "All I want to do is sleep and not feel my headache and you won't let me!" breakdown, which Tom heard over the monitor.  He offered to go into work late and let me sleep but by then it was 6:30 and I'd been awake for an hour and a half so I told him not to bother. He told me to take a pill but I'm already exhausted and a barbiturate that'll make me drowsy isn't going to help.  I've been crying on and off about it for a while, but what's the point? I know everyone will say "You need to make time for yourself and do things just for you," and blah blah blah. I can't do that, I don't do that, and that's that.  I just need to power through it and deal. Put on my big girl panties and be a fucking mom.  But I will, just for today, try to nap while they nap.  And speaking of that, Danny passed out on a blanket on the floor at about 7:15. 

Friday, March 11, 2011

My head still hurts

My headache is worse, and now, in addition to the tension headache, I have a migraine as well. I know it is a migraine because I see lights that aren't there, little blue specks of light like the dots PacMan eats. And I smell eww. It's a specific bleach-like scent of eww and it's as clear as if some dude walked up and stuck is special sock under my nose. So yeah, it's a migraine.
My son, interestingly enough, has mastered hitting the one perfect note that shoots into your ear like an ice pick and then explodes to fill your skull like spray-foam. And he can sustain that note for a very long time.

I need medical help. I fear I will never get it.