Migraines

Month Long Recap

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Yet again I have been bad at posting. Sean emailed me looking for an update since I haven’t written in a while. I know I have been bad recently with not posting. I will provide a quick update of what happened this month. Ok, get ready here it comes:

Last week I was plagued with migraines from Wednesday till this Monday. It is the weather. I always get sick when the weather starts changing. It is something about the stagnant warm weather, not hot or cold when the AC’s stop running and it is just warm. I am not the only one I know that is affected by this but like clockwork twice a year I have an issue. I am feeling somewhat better now.

Last weekend I stayed in trying to kill the head aches. I ended up having to miss a Halloween party my friends threw because I felt like crap. I did get out a bit on Sunday to help Lauren and Andrew setup there new Macbook Pro. The twins are really cute, but a bit loud for my head aching state I was in.

The week before that I had a cold all week. Thankfully it wasn’t that bad. I took cold eze. I can’t spell it but it works. I sounded allot worse than I felt all week. The Tylenol PM also helped. The weekend of the 14th and 15th I pretty much slept away since I had a cold. Come to think of it, this month has been allot of resting when I am not working. That is a sign that things are crazy busy in the office.

One night a few weeks ago (i can’t remember when anymore) a bunch of us finally got together for poker. Brian’s girlfriend Amy was the big winner. I was the only other person that broke even. I did ok, but no where near as well as Amy. I need to schedule another get together soon.

I did the Jewish holidays at the usual places. One holiday was at my parents best friends house and the other was at my parents place. My dad decided to make the first holiday interesting by getting sick. He ended up in the hospital for a day and half with the flu or something. I am learning that even something as typically normal as the flu can put a diabetic in the hospital. He is ok but it was an interesting few days.

The other holiday was uneventful. I didn’t fast. I really can’t, or shall I say I shouldn’t. Me, medication, and not eating is a bad thing. According to my dad (who after all is a reliable religious scholar:) it is ok to skip the fasting if you need to take meds. Who am I kidding anyway. I am not religious 364 days out of the year, so why should I be that one extra day?

Other stuff went on this month, but I can’t recall all the details right now. Heck, I almost forgot about the hospital thing so I bet I missed some other important piece of info.

Work was really hectic this month. Lost of projects going on right now. I will cover them in another post if I find the time. Hopefully this wont be the last post for another month!

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Monday Recap

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I woke up with a headache. Alive kicked it, so I was happy in the afternoon. Most of the day was taken up with shepherding along other peoples projects. I did get to deal with a few items on my ever growing list of items I am working on. The thing about the Getting Things Done system I am trying is that the list always gets bigger, and each task gets more specific. The purchase of Daylite has been very helpful in keeping things organized.

Some things I did get to work on today was some network port blocking projects I have had in the works. I also got some time to update some test virtual machines for some other tests. I also pitched to my boss a new upgrade to our network. I think he liked it, so we will take it to the next level. Not much more I can go into on this site.

I got to get home at a normal hour today. I ended up cooking dinner instead of ordering out like I have been doing the past 2 weeks. I also got to touch base with Amanda over IM for a while. She is back from her honeymoon so she was able to chat.

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Chock Full of Meetings

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It felt like I did nothing but have meetings today. And actually I did almost no technical work today so I did sit through allot of meetings, it just didn’t feel long. I need to follow up on allot of projects tomorrow.

Today was just crazy. I won’t go into details but my stress level was way up today. I also got side tracked on allot of stuff. I didn’t get to eat lunch till 2:30, and it is 10PM and I haven’t eaten dinner. I don’t know if I will have anything at all.

I also had a slight head ache today. Yesterday was allot worse. I think it is from not sleeping since both last night and the night before I slept like crap and I woke up with a head ache. When I do that, I should just roll over and call in sick because like 75% of the time that turns into a migraine. Of course I don’t and I pay for it later in the day.

Yesterday was busy but not as crazy as today. Most of the stuff that went on I cannot go into on this blog. I know I want to talk about stuff, but I am taking very serious the need to leave out work details from this site. If you are a friend reading this site, you can email me and I will give you the password. If I work with you and you are looking for information like you used to get off the site, don’t bother. I won’t be giving out the password to anyone I work with.

Beach Friday & Surprise Party

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Last Friday I took the day off from work to goto the beach with my family. My parents have been going to the same beach club for over 20 years. When I was younger I would go with them every summer. Now a days they are lucky if I go once a summer. Last week was a special case. My sister had setup a surpise party for my Mom’s 60th birthday (it was that sunday). She had a bunch of family friend visit that day at the beach (my mom knew about that part). What she didn’t realize was that about 50 other people would show up in the early evening while my mom took my niece to the pool. She was totally surprised. The party was fun. There were a bunch of people I didn’t know (no mom, meeting someone once a decade and expecting me to remember who they are does not constitute knowing someone), a whole bunch of friends I knew and some family I haven’t seen in a while.

It was a good night. the day at the beach was rough. it was very hot, there were 5 kids there under 3, and I was getting a head ache. I was able to take a nap, so I felt better for the party! I was amazed at the stuff my sister cooked for this thing.

The Office Holiday Party

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Last Thursday we had our company holiday party. OK I am late on writing about it. So sue me. It was on a boat. Dan had the crazy idea of having a holiday party on a boat sailing around the east river in the middle of December. It was probably not the best idea he has had, but we did have a good time. It goes to show you that you can party anywhere. It was rocky, cold, and did I mention rocky? I am cranky thinking about the party because I got a head ache. It was actually a good time had by most. I had to take a butabital for my head ache so I was in no mood to drink. I also tried to eat, but had nothing. The rocking of the waves, the lights on the dance floor and the loud music did not agree with my head.

The view from the river was fantastic. We mainly sailed in circles by the South Street seaport area of downtown, and then by the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. It was nice. It was more choppy in the Hudson river by Chelsea Peers than it was where we cruised most of the night.

Kai came down. He had a good time but I didn’t see him most of the night. Jayson got really drunk. Danny got drunk but I could not tell that he did. He said he had a decent amount. Linus got so drunk he didn’t come in the next day. Like I said fun was had by all. I missed last years party because I felt sick and went home early, so this party was catchup for me. Figures I missed the year that I won an award at the party! I did make the company top ten list. I think that was a good thing?

Next company party will be the we are profitable party. Hopefully sometime in February!

Self Fulfilling Prophecies

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I was all set to go to Baltimore & DC this weekend with a bunch of friends. That was until I got up this morning. Well it wasn’t really getting up. My alarm went off, but since I wasn’t able to sleep it doesn’t count as getting up. that was the problem. I haven’t been able to sleep allot recently. As a bit of background information I get migraine headaches. I usually get them from eye strain or lack of sleep. That brings me to this morning and me not sleeping. I got out of bed and I already had a head ache. That happens sometimes, so I decided to go through my normal routine. A shower and something to drink usually can clear my head enough that I am fine. Well today it didn’t. This caused me a dilemma. Do I try to take some medication and hope for the best on a 4 hour car drive away from home, or do I cancel my plans? Waking up feeling like a full blown migraine is about to start does not set the stage for a perfect day. A long car drive and then sitting in the sun at a baseball game also is not the perfect situation for a migraine. I decided to not go on my trip. I was too worried to take the chance, and be that far from home with an impending migraine on my hands.

The scenario I just pictured happened today, but it is also part of one of my worst fears. To be away from home, or not able to stop and rest and handle a full blown migraine is a fear that I live with. Whenever make plans I worry that something like that will happen. Was this time a self fulfilling prophecy? I don’t think so, but it gets me wondering. I have lived through this fear before, so to me it is very real. When given the chance I won’t (and didn’t) take the risk of venturing out when I was not feeling 100%. It pisses me off. It probably pisses my friends off also, but I need to take care of myself.

Instead of venturing off to DC, I crawled back into bed and waited for what felt like (and probably was) hours till sleep came to me. I originally got up around 5:30AM. I crawled back to bed around 6:30. I don’t know when I actually slept. I just remember I got out of bed and got dressed probably around 3PM today. I didn’t venture outside until 4PM or so. I went on some quick errands and headed home. I was tired after that.

Now of course I am wide awake. It feels like my entire sleep schedule is reversed. I can’t sleep at night, but I am so tired during the day. When I called to tell Jayson I was bailing out of the trip he said I should take something to help me sleep. I only do that when I have a cold. I don’t want to get used to or addicted on some sleeping aide. But tonight I might take the plunge and try something. I just want a good night sleep. My dad will attribute the lack of sleep to stress. I tell him, yeah so. I need to find a way to deal with work stress better. It is the only thing that I can think of that is causing this.

On the bright side because of the extra nap I eked out this morning the full migraine I was afraid of never came to pass. Would it have happened if I had gone on the trip? My personal history tells me tha there was a good chance. Am I upset I missed the fun? Of course I am. Will I get shit from everyone from bailing out? Of course. I already got a voice mail from Gus, and 3 SMS messages from people. All I can say is what I said to Dari, “I don’t wish this on anyone”.

I am going to write a bit more, and then I will try sleeping again…

Little Italy

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Tonight I went to little italy for dinner with Gretchen, Jayson, Jayson’s cousin and her friend. It was a nice night. We didn’t get to dinner until 10:30PM, I was hungry so that was bad. We hung out at Jay’s place for a while where the women were getting ready.

We had an awesome dinner at one of the 50 italian restaurants on mulberry street. I had veil parm. I don’t eat it that often so and it was really good. Some cheese cake and espresso after dinner and I cannot sleep right now. So I am up writing about the dinner. The ladies had a part tomorrow and it was raining so we ended up going home after dinner.

We ended up waiting for the subway for 30 minutes. After it turns midnight the subway start to suck in NYC. I don’t know how they can have any more “reduced service” they talk about if they have to cut the transit budget.

To make it to dinner I did have to have a butabital. I was getting a migraine head ache in the late afternoon. The one pill made me feel better, and it made me not drink. that saved me some $$$.

Now I need to goto sleep. I am just not tired, and it is almost 2AM. Tomorrow I am going to feel this…

Migraine Alert

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My migraine from yesterday did not fully go away. I had to take a furiset today. it made me feel better but taking the medication is never good. I am getting renewed pressure from my family to see the head ache specialist again. I need to make an appointment.

Migraine Streak Continues

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For some unknown reason I am still getting head aches. I was stuck in bed all day sunday with a migraine. I attempted to not take drugs since I was at home, but I ended up taking a bextra and sleeping all day.

Today I also took 2 fureset (butabital). I am hacking the spelling of these drugs! I felt better after taking the drugs today, but if I didn’t I would have a big problem. Butabital is a powerful pain medication. Thankfully I was able to make it through the rest of the day. Hopefully tomorrow I will feel better. I will try to goto bed early tonight.

Bad Blogger

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I have become a bad blogger. I have not posted in a week. And it feels like to me I don’t post as often as I used to. It is not from lack of things to talk about. Just lack of time or inclination to sit down after I get home and write. I don’t write on the train anymore. I am going to try and fix that.

UPDATE FOR THE WEEK:

Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday I had a headache each day. I took some bextra and furiset to stop the Migraine. Wednesday it didn’t really work, but the other days I was at least able to make it through the day. Today I don’t feel 100% but I am still planning on going out tonight.

I finally got a date to get my furniture. My mom actually setup the move. She wanted the stuff out of her place so she setup the move. She knows I am busy so all I have to do is write a check. My dad and I will supervise the move next week. I need to destroy my old living room wall unit to make room for my new one. half of me wants to keep what I have, but it is not in good shape and the new one is so much nicer.