04th Mar 2009
It seemed like a good idea at the time…
After a busy morning yesterday, I was laid low by a sudden and severe migraine (heh…as if there’s such a thing as a “mild migraine”). While lying in bed waiting for the meds to kick in (or death–either would have been welcomed equally), I thought of all the things that might help give me some relief.
Although they seemed so very reasonable at the time, in retrospect, not so much…
Sounded good: scooping my left eye out with a melon baller
Was good: closing all the blinds, turning off all the lights, and covering my eyes with a thick blanket
Sounded good: shoving a knitting needle between my eye and the socket, driving it up into my brain
Was good: migraine medication (my current fave is Maxalt although it wasn’t too much help yesterday)
Sounded good: tractioning my neck until disarticulation occurred
Was good: gentle pressure on various pressure points on the neck
Sounded good: placing my head in some sort of press (my fantasy press was a large steel thing…the sort you might find in a machine shop)
Was good: placing head under a hot stream of water (i.e., a very hot shower)
Sounded good: lead aspirin
Was good: OTC pain killers (current fave being one each of naproxen and acetominophen…works better than Vicodin)
And yes, the migraine is still there…
Hope that migraine is gone now!
Well, two days on and it’s still hanging about. No pain (unless I do something really wild like laugh or something) but parts of my brain feel pretty mushy.