Last Day of Summer, Two Days Until Ablation

It's September 21, 2016. It's the last day of  a summer that I missed almost completely. I went geocaching a couple of times. Maybe next week when I'm recovering from the ablation and, hopefully, not having any migraines, I will explain more about our geocaching obsession. I went to a picnic. I took a day and went out to Port Angeles for a two hour ride on the Lady Washington. A tall ship used in the making of Pirates of the Caribbean. That was pretty much it for the summer.

It's fitting that tomorrow is the first day of autumn. The day before I get the ablation which will, hopefully, end my migraines. As the earth begins to settle in to sleep for the winter, I will begin to wake up.The chill is already beginning to show in the air. Here in the Pacific Northwest, on the west side of the Cascades, it rarely gets truly cold. Still, I think about hats and gloves as I will brave the weather to work my way back up to walking three miles a day.

Two more days of brutal migraines. two more days of not being able to drive myself, two more days of waking up in the middle of the night in terror because that's when the migraine happened to start and it takes a few moments to calm the fight or flight instinct.

I am preparing, first I got my nails done:

I will wait until after the procedure to schedule my hair cut. I have slowly been collecting blouses that aren't t-shirts with sayings on them. I have jewelry, maybe when my hands don't shake, I can put it on.

9/23/2016  7:30 am PDT - Overlake Hospital, Bellevue, WA
then maybe I can breathe again.