By "Bud" I do not mean the so-called "King of Beers". You know the one I am talking about! Do I have to spell it out for you????
No I am talking Buds as in Buddies: Good Friends, Special People, Associates, Chums, Companions, Comrades, Confidants, Cronies, Pals, Sidekicks...and cousins! (yeah this blog entry is for JG, because she thinks I only do this on Wednesdays, which is purely coincidental, I might add. And yes this is Sunday night..so gotcha!)
Okay, I totally got sidetracked...big surprise there. Friday morning I woke up with so much pain in my right ear and the right hemisphere of my pointy little head. And a lesion in my throat. Hmmm, Behcet's related pain? DENIAL. Sinus? DENIAL. Run of the mill headache? DENIAL.
But we were having friends over Friday night for dinner, shoot a little pool, play darts, watch Stanford wallop (err, maybe not wallop, maybe squeaking by...) UCLA, well it was going to be a fun evening and I wasn't going to let a little bitty pain spoil that. Soldier On Sergeant! Ignore this! Stop whining!
It was a fun night...one of my BFFs who is on chemo was having a far worse night than me symptom-wise. So my puny little picayune headache had nuttin' on her chemo rash and mouth lesions. It is so funny how a body responds in many of the same ways despite what illness or treatment you are on...so we played "match the lesions!" and I mixed up my magic mouthwash for her for hopefully some relief from that %$#&*^% chemo's side effects from the %$^#*^&! cancer.
Other than the craptastic symptoms, we had so much fun. It was good to laugh and attempt to play pool like drunken monkeys, even though there was no alcohol involved. PS DH, this sign is for you. You'll get it even if no one else does.
But I digress again. Horrible painful night trying to sleep and I woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed.
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| Bushy tail: check. Bright eyes: Dead |
This is how I felt. OMG I was in so much pain! I dug through my medicine
stash and found 2 year old generic Imitrex for migraines. Say...could
it be a MIGRAINE???? Take the stupid meds and see what happens. If you
have ever had a migraine and taken Imitrex or one of many generics, you
know a weird thing happens. Your head feels like you have blown off the
top like a gas leak in a crowded neighborhood. But happily in a matter of minutes the ear pain subsided. Not the entire headache, but the ear pain calming down helped a bit. The nausea that came after and the pain upon hearing loud noises, not so much. Saturday night pain pain pain. Searing horrifying kill me now pain. Dang, this Behcet's is outta control! Called the local walk-in clinic blessedly open 7 days a week. What a great service! Within a few minutes it was determined that I was indeed suffering from the MOTHER of all migraines. (which I might add I get them 1-2 times a year, different than the cluster migraines that I get fairly regularly, but treat with Excedrin) Now you would THINK I would know this by now, right? Remember? DENIAL? (There was one time I went to the doctor having suffered for several days and he said to me just before giving me an injection: "What the HELL took you so long????" DENIAL silly!) Within an hour's time I felt human again.My new Buds (and old Buds): Bless you Mara NP. Bless you ZoomCare. Bless you drug companies. Bless you DH who drives me to the doctor and pharmacy without whining. Bless you debit card for swiping happily and coughing up its $. Bless you my BFFs who play pool and darts and keep me laughing. Bless you beloved cousins who Skype and make me smile. Bless my daughter who got me on Skype so I could "attend" a baby shower 500+ miles away today. Heck bless Skype and all forms of technology that have made our lives fun and brought us together (ok, sometimes it tears us apart, but that's another story for another time) Geez, my dad, who died in 1987 would have LOVED this stuff. Bless label makers. Where did come from? Oh, I had so much fun labeling all my crap that I had to show you!      |
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