I have been suffering from almost daily migraines for almost exactly a year. Real, clinical migraines, with auras of flashing lights before my eyes and ringing in my ears that lasts for approximately 5-15 minutes, then the pain starts.The pain can be excruciating. It's not just a bad headache. I had them nearly every day for a year. I was just this side of bedrest. I'd get up, put on pajamas, go downstairs and sit in my easy chair all day. If the auras let me see, I would be on my computer. If I needed to go somewhere, almost always a doctor, my son or husband would drive me. I couldn't risk getting an aura while I was driving.
Two weeks ago, tomorrow, I had an ablation procedure in my neck which stopped my migraines cold. Went into the Operating Room with a migraine, came out without one. I haven't had one since. It's amazing. I had doctors telling me I might need to learn to live with the migraines. I spent days after that looking at my cooking knives and wondering if they were sharp enough to cut my wrists.
Now, I have a body that has had almost no exercise, and a home which has had nothing done but the things required to live, for the past year. I want to fix it all today. My son starts his new, and first, job on Saturday. This morning we ran errands to make sure he had what he needed to do his job. I have a lot of other things I want to do today, but at the moment, I'm exhausted from the running around.
I want to clean out all the piles of stuff that have accumulated over the last year. I want to dust everything. I want to get back to walking three miles a day, but I can barely make it to the corner with my dog.
I'm so frustrated, but I don't want to increase the time it takes my neck to heal by overdoing it. I just hope it doesn't take as long to recover as it did to get in this deep.
One day at a time, right?
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