The second part of my holiday report was the most surprising and cool thing that happened, and it was at the very beginning ( Read more... )

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... )

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... )

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... )

Labor Day weekend has Reese and Sleep visiting! They arrived Friday late afternoon (holiday travel was a bitch) and it was nice out, so once they got their stuff all put away they joined me on the deck to hang out ( Read more... )

It has been 2 entire years since I've been able to walk 2 miles! It was 2 years ago that I got Covid for the first time (though I only recognized that later) and had the series of migraines and extreme levels of fatigue that just put me in bed most of the time ( Read more... )

So... I thought I would have to just watch my cat die because what else do you do when you're too poor to afford a vet? I couldn't bring myself to ask anyone else for help because she's 15 1/2-- though maybe I would if she were younger than 14. I was too upset to do much more than just cry a lot and often. I didn't tell Reese or anyone else in the ( Read more... )

My friend Odyssey (who I met over LiveJournal and has been my friend for about 20 years now) came to visit me for the weekend of my birthday. Ody has been very busy building a new business for the last few years, and we've hardly had time to even Zoom much, so he made a special trip to hang out and catch up ( Read more... )

I've been sick most of my life, literally for 40 years at this point, and struggled to get an "official" diagnosis. What diagnosis I did get wasn't "strong" enough to be convincing because there was no positive/negative "stick test" to point to what was wrong ( Read more... )

One thing that helped distract me recently while I was reeling from the revelations of my hypnosis session was Mike finishing his next book! My roomie has been really nose-to-the-grindstone working on this project non-stop over the last 9 months or more (13 years total from the time he had the idea for the story to begin with, he says) and for it ( Read more... )