I've now been migraine free for 4 days! Count 'em! FOUR!Last week I had my doctor's appointment and we went over all my symptoms. I was wearing dark sunglasses indoors, so they actually turned off the lights in the office and just left the door partially open to the hallway for indirect light so I could take them off. Since I was still having a ( Read more... )

For most of the last month and more, I had been feeling very fearful of the future and losing hope that the worst will NOT happen. Biden's senility becoming readily, embarrassingly, and shockingly obvious at that first debate with Trump was a real hope killer. The Dems' bullshit machine went into full swing, but it didn't work and was never going ( Read more... )

Throughout this migraine hell, one amazing piece of good news: After all my desperate attempts to ask Cat to please, please take her natural depression medication at an adequate dose-- she finally did. She doubled the dose of St. John's Wort starting a month ago, and she's been a very different person since ( Read more... )

I'm sorry if it seems like I keep disappearing... I don't mean to ( Read more... )

Gods. I hate it that so many of these posts are about Cat. She's NOT that prominent a person, yet in my life she has outsized power for obvious reasons. I'm used to dancing a fine tune to my father and ex-husband to try to keep my life "okay"-- but Cat is such a weird mixture of selfish and childish, lacking social sophistication, that I'm not sure ( Read more... )

Okay! The last couple of weeks have been difficult-- I had a week of migraines, AGAIN. Gods! They suck! It started up again just a few days after the last round. I had a few days of normalcy, and then the pain and nausea returned at varying levels for the next 8 or 9 days. Yesterday, the pain train finally broke down and I came up for air and to ( Read more... )

My migraine ended after a record-breaking (for me) TEN days! My previous record was four days, and that was bad enough. Now I am able to look at light without wincing in pain, which is nice, not to mention the end of the nausea. That just... undid me for a week and a half ( Read more... )

I was telling my abductee friend Natalie in Texas about how my life was going, and it was so awful-- the migraine train, the bullshit with Cat, the crazy with my mother and sister, and how I might lose my affordable living situation-- that she started laughing at how bad it was. I began giggling right with her, because it really is a fucking SHIT  ( Read more... )

Ai yi yi!

This has been a week from hell! I caught a "cold" -- which now I know was Covid -- right after my outing with Cat. (She and I both had slight symptoms before going out, so we didn't catch it at Viking Days, I think it was from before that, at my doc's office. There was an old lady coughing and I forgot my mask.) But the very minor cold ( Read more... )

 I think I proved my point to Cat that I could go out with her and we could get along just fine-- because we did!

Cat offered to take me to Poulsbo for a meal out and shopping (there's a store there that sells the coolest pagan jewelry for cheap!) by way of apology for leaving me out of things the weekend before, and that's just what we did ( Read more... )