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January 12, 2006

Uncontrollable

Pain that is. P. A. I. N. (Pick Ax IN (my eye))

I have had a migraine since Sunday night. Yes, you heard me. I said Sunday. And Yes I am completely aware that today is Thursday. 5 Days of Uncontrollable Pain.

I took one of my prescription migraine pills, Relpax, Sunday night. It wasn't bad but it was still there Monday... I took another pill Monday night.

Tuesday, I went to the dentist. I was there for about two hours. Xrays, New Patient Exam and Cleaning. By the time I got back to work my migraine had basically doubled in intensity.

I took another pill when I got home Tuesday night (about 7pm).

Wednesday I woke up, went to work, took another pill (about 8am) and turned off all the lights in my office. It was the only way I was going to make it thru the day.

My friend who sits in the cube farm outside my office remembered seeing an ice pack in the freezer and brought it to me. It was actually designed to fit around a wine bottle, but instead I velcroed it around my head. I'm sure I looked darling. Then I took 2 more pills about 11am.

For those of you who are keeping track. That is 6 pills since Sunday night... and 4 in the past 24 Hours. Now, lets see how many of you actually followed that link up there. What? What's that? You mean it says "do not exceed 2 pills in 24 hours"? Ooops.

About 1:45 yesterday I started feeling better, or that I felt comfortable enough driving to go get something to eat. I went to La Madeleine and had a bowl of mushroom soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. I went back to work and stayed till abotut 5:30.

Then I went home, changed clothes and went to meet CY at the mall. We ate dinner at California Pizza Kitchen. The migraine was still there but it had retreated back where I could actually function. The rest of my body was still overwhelmed by the pain it had been thru and I felt like I had been hit by a MACK Truck.

As I was sitting at my computer last night, about to go to bed, I felt it. It was coming back. And I was OUT of my relpax. So, I just went to bed. At 1:00am this morning I found out that my alarm system at my new place really does work. I had woken up and decided to go find some sort of medicine and I walked thru the motion monitor.

DAY Five.

I arrived at work. I took 4 Motrin Migraine and drank a can of caffeine. It was back with a vengance, for the second day. I went and found another ice pack and velcroed it around my face. Yes, I know I probably should have taken a picture of that.

I got the one contract that I HAD to get done today completed and then I 12:02 I clocked out for lunch. I went straight back to my office and curled up on the floor and took a nap for 30 minutes. I had set the alarm clock on my cell phone to wake me up and then I went to the little bakery around the corner to get Chicken N Dumplings. I only ate a little before I started feeling bad again.

By about 2:00, when my boss dropped by for his daily "how's it going" speech.. I was crying when he walked in and said... "Man you look horrible, Can't you go home?"

Since I only started working here in April, hadn't had any sick time at all until January 1st (And those of you who have been around a while you know how much I've been sick.) And since I wasn't here a full year I only have 32 hours to make it all year. I figured if I was already here, I could make it till 5:00. That and they wont let you take less than 4 hours of sick time at a time. It was 2:00 already before he said that, so I would have just been out of that time. I cant afford to do that right now. My paycheck this week wont even cover my rent since I missed 2.5 days the week of my surgery. I have got to have at least 40 hours these next couple of weeks.

It is 3:40. I have to make it another hour and 20 minutes. Then I'm going home. I'm hoping I don't end up in the emergency room tonight or like this another day. I don't think I can handle another day. I've tried everything I know. I've put banana peels on my forehead, I've popped my neck, I've taken Flax Seed Oil, I've rubbed in Eucalyptis Oil into my temples. I've drank caffeine after caffeine after caffeine.

This is also why yesterday I started in head first on my resolution to find another doctor. I just don't know what to do. Its uncontrollable.

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