Chill Pill
I had a bad migraine today but didn't think much of it. I thought it was just the lack of caffeine that was causing my moodiness, as always.
But today it was a little different, the bus ride was intolerable, I had to stop mid-way to force-vomit.
The entire ride was nauseating and even after I got off the bus to take a walk and breathe some cool fresh air, nothing helped the nausea.
It was quite funny because I was near KAP, so I decided to hold in my puke and do some grocery shopping for dinner since my mom won't be back by dinner time. And despite the discomfort, I kept smiling and giggling to myself, thinking of how I'd be laughing myself silly if I puked all over myself at Cold Storage. I've always found it funny when people puked all over themselves (like they didn't have the common sense to puke away from themselves), partly because I read this last night.
I held in my puke and closed my eyes throughout the bus ride back. Dropped the groceries at home, then went to see my family doctor.
It's chronic migraine as usual, but this time it was worse because I "over-strained" myself though I was sure I handled my workload really well.
I had time to nua, I had sufficient time for work, I had enough sleep and even if I didn't, I'm quite sure I tried to make up for my lack of sleep on Sundays.
So anyway, all these time that I thought it was PMS, it was actually the migraine making me ultra irritable. The doctor surprised me by asking me if I were "constantly irritable and easily frustrated, always wanting to snap at people", it was really quite funny. I was so used to the chronic migraine that it didn't bother me until it got worse.
The biggest joke of all was the doctor telling me to lay off ANY sort of school work for at least a week -- no emails, no thinking, no work -- I almost laughed at his face but I managed to scoff a bit. A day of rest I get it, but a week? Where does he think I'm from? Engineering? (Naw, just kidding) I politely declined, smiled at him and said that I can't do that. It was quite amusing because I'd never used to turn down a week of rest, but this doctor is really quite funny.
I went back with a 2-day MC, and the same set of pills that would make me relax (I call them my chill pills), and an order from the doctor to not do strenuous exercise when I only started exercising yesterday (FML for real). Also, to have a headache diary to keep track of how frequent my migraines are so I can go check with a neurologist. Like seriously, GOT SO SERIOUS OR NOT???
How... naive for people to think that the world will stop for them. Work will continue and it doesn't make sense to stop because of some dumb brain shit.
2 more months!
But today it was a little different, the bus ride was intolerable, I had to stop mid-way to force-vomit.
The entire ride was nauseating and even after I got off the bus to take a walk and breathe some cool fresh air, nothing helped the nausea.
It was quite funny because I was near KAP, so I decided to hold in my puke and do some grocery shopping for dinner since my mom won't be back by dinner time. And despite the discomfort, I kept smiling and giggling to myself, thinking of how I'd be laughing myself silly if I puked all over myself at Cold Storage. I've always found it funny when people puked all over themselves (like they didn't have the common sense to puke away from themselves), partly because I read this last night.
I held in my puke and closed my eyes throughout the bus ride back. Dropped the groceries at home, then went to see my family doctor.
It's chronic migraine as usual, but this time it was worse because I "over-strained" myself though I was sure I handled my workload really well.
I had time to nua, I had sufficient time for work, I had enough sleep and even if I didn't, I'm quite sure I tried to make up for my lack of sleep on Sundays.
So anyway, all these time that I thought it was PMS, it was actually the migraine making me ultra irritable. The doctor surprised me by asking me if I were "constantly irritable and easily frustrated, always wanting to snap at people", it was really quite funny. I was so used to the chronic migraine that it didn't bother me until it got worse.
The biggest joke of all was the doctor telling me to lay off ANY sort of school work for at least a week -- no emails, no thinking, no work -- I almost laughed at his face but I managed to scoff a bit. A day of rest I get it, but a week? Where does he think I'm from? Engineering? (Naw, just kidding) I politely declined, smiled at him and said that I can't do that. It was quite amusing because I'd never used to turn down a week of rest, but this doctor is really quite funny.
I went back with a 2-day MC, and the same set of pills that would make me relax (I call them my chill pills), and an order from the doctor to not do strenuous exercise when I only started exercising yesterday (FML for real). Also, to have a headache diary to keep track of how frequent my migraines are so I can go check with a neurologist. Like seriously, GOT SO SERIOUS OR NOT???
How... naive for people to think that the world will stop for them. Work will continue and it doesn't make sense to stop because of some dumb brain shit.
2 more months!