so is this what it's like?
I had lunch with Spoo yesterday (monday, since it's now 3am on tuesday) and he asked me how my head was doing, and I had to figure out a way to put it. I was like "I think I know how most people live now, without headaches." It's...I get up, my head doesn't hurt. There's not even--I was used to living with a background level of pain, that just always was there, and it spiked on occasion (more frequently than I liked) and stuff, but the times when my head didn't hurt, just plain didn't hurt, were few and far between.
Now? It's like walking around with a constant relief from pain. That's what it feels like, that there's this lightness in my head, this clarity, where it just DOESN'T HURT. I took a nap Sunday and woke up and there was no pain in my head, not even pressure.
I've made it almost two weeks without needing or wanting breakthrough meds, with the exception of the bug that gave me a killer sinus headache and knocked me on my ass for a couple days. I can't remember the last time that happened.
(Note that I do plan on talking to Dr. R about emergency breakthrough meds, just because I don't trust the new med to work for everything; two weeks, while amazing, is not long enough to establish a pattern.)
In other news:
Mom may be going home sooner than expected. It's not because she's walking (she's not) or suddenly able to do everything (she's not), but because the insurance company looked at her case and said "You're receiving custodial care, not acute medical care, so you should go home and we'll pay for people to go to your house and take care of you."
So odds are that they'll put a hospital bed in the living room and Mom can go home. She and Dad have mixed feelings about this, but I'm choosing to view it as a positive. I think Mom will be happier once she's home, for one thing, and it'll make Dad's life easier if he doesn't have to drive back and forth to rehab every day. Also, she'll have HGTV and Food Network again.
I am heading up to see the parents after Thanksgiving - Morgan and I are flying out together on Wednesday 11/23, and then on 11/28 he flies home and I take the train up to NJ. I fly home from NJ on Saturday 12/3. This plan was created at the suggestion of my therapist, so props to her, and to Morgan who was reluctant but agreed to the plan.
Job stuff continues to be promising - I have a new assignment from the company for which I'm doing some independent contracting work, which may or may not lead to increased hours. I'm not counting on it, but it would be nice if it happened. And of course I have the phone interview on Wednesday which hopefully will lead to something.
(I have to laugh on this one - after things fell through in June, Morgan kept saying that anything else I found would probably be temporary until the $Evil_Empire recruiter got back to me. I didn't buy it, but...now, who knows?)
I should probably go back to sleep soon.
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Now? It's like walking around with a constant relief from pain. That's what it feels like, that there's this lightness in my head, this clarity, where it just DOESN'T HURT. I took a nap Sunday and woke up and there was no pain in my head, not even pressure.
I've made it almost two weeks without needing or wanting breakthrough meds, with the exception of the bug that gave me a killer sinus headache and knocked me on my ass for a couple days. I can't remember the last time that happened.
(Note that I do plan on talking to Dr. R about emergency breakthrough meds, just because I don't trust the new med to work for everything; two weeks, while amazing, is not long enough to establish a pattern.)
In other news:
Mom may be going home sooner than expected. It's not because she's walking (she's not) or suddenly able to do everything (she's not), but because the insurance company looked at her case and said "You're receiving custodial care, not acute medical care, so you should go home and we'll pay for people to go to your house and take care of you."
So odds are that they'll put a hospital bed in the living room and Mom can go home. She and Dad have mixed feelings about this, but I'm choosing to view it as a positive. I think Mom will be happier once she's home, for one thing, and it'll make Dad's life easier if he doesn't have to drive back and forth to rehab every day. Also, she'll have HGTV and Food Network again.
I am heading up to see the parents after Thanksgiving - Morgan and I are flying out together on Wednesday 11/23, and then on 11/28 he flies home and I take the train up to NJ. I fly home from NJ on Saturday 12/3. This plan was created at the suggestion of my therapist, so props to her, and to Morgan who was reluctant but agreed to the plan.
Job stuff continues to be promising - I have a new assignment from the company for which I'm doing some independent contracting work, which may or may not lead to increased hours. I'm not counting on it, but it would be nice if it happened. And of course I have the phone interview on Wednesday which hopefully will lead to something.
(I have to laugh on this one - after things fell through in June, Morgan kept saying that anything else I found would probably be temporary until the $Evil_Empire recruiter got back to me. I didn't buy it, but...now, who knows?)
I should probably go back to sleep soon.
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