Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Another Migraine.

Strange day.  The sky cleared around eight o'clock, and from the fringe of cloud to the south it looked like I might have several hours of bright sunshine.  That meant I might be able to finish edging the kitchen cabinet doors for the Lair.  So around 9:30 I headed over to D&L's to use D's table router.  Sure enough I got that job done, but halfway through I was struck by one of my trademark migraines.

They never used to involve an actual headache, just a lack of ability to focus my eyes and form actual conversational words.  But like the one I had in May, this one had all that and a headache like the worst hangover I ever had.  It came on suddenly, and I don't know why.  Shit-shoveling went great this morning, and D's earthbag workshop is as cool and dim as you can imagine.  But I wasn't a third of the way through edging the doors when I started seeing everything through this weird veil, and my head really hurt.

Got the job done, and then I needed to crawl around under his tables with a shop-vac to clean up all the sawdust.  Then I gathered all my plywood scraps and headed to the Lair.  Migraine or no migraine, I want to start work on my counter!  Given time it always fades to the point where I can work, at least.  So it's actually been a productive morning.  I got all the doors edged, got plywood laid out and cut for the whole counter, dragged in the big cast-iron sink and heaved it onto the counter to get the counter marked for the sink hole, and scraped off all the old caulking.  That's as far as I got when the thunder-boomers rolled in.  Ran home and let the dogs out.  They went for a run, came back like gooboys.  Now LB's crashed on his shelf, Ghost is in and out with the rain, and I'm wishing this damned headache would go away.

Good productive morning in spite of the pain, but I'm really not convinced any of the preceding was very coherent.  Probably won't know till I re-read it tomorrow.  My eyes are having trouble focusing.

4 comments:

Carl-Bear said...

At least we've finally answered the musical question, "Who Let The Dogs Out?"

Groundhog said...

My wife and one kid suffered for years with bad migraines. They found a doc here in San Antonio that has had great success in treating them. I sort of suspect you're not at a point where doing much about them is a top priority, but if you ever get there, contact the Groundhog. I think they work with out of state folks in various ways. Hang in there.

Anonymous said...

I know you don't have any money for such extras [I don't either] BUT IF there is a medically trained person of your casual acquaintance nearby you might want to have those migraines examined by one of those brain specialists folks.

Or have you already had that done?

Sorry to butt-in-ski.

stay safe,

gooch

Joel said...

I used to get them fairly often - this was many years ago - and they frightened me to the doctor because I was afraid I was having a stroke or something. I always heard migraines hurt, and these didn't hurt at all. They just caused my vision to blur till I couldn't focus on anything. All I could do was sit or lay down till it passed, which never took long. I didn't know what it was, and when the doctor told me it was migraines I relaxed. Lots of people get migraines, and I was just happy it wasn't worse.

Now lately they're less frequent, but the symptoms are far worse. A bad one's positively show-stopping. Yesterday I could still function, and actually ended up getting quite a bit done. Though I didn't enjoy it.