Today has been a much better day so far. I’ve had a really rough 36 hours, but the worst seems to be over. I went through absolute hell last night for about an hour when every inch of my body decided to revolt. I had a headache, my shoulders were hurting, I was having a severe and very painful IBS attack which was also making me extremely nauseous and I also had menstrual cramps. I just cried for a little bit and then wished I either had several different heating pads or could just roll myself up in one giant heat wrap like a big burrito. Ahhhh, the joys of womanhood…<\/p>\n
In comparison, today is an absolute joyride! \ud83d\ude00 Seriously, though, I’ve taken 2 Excedrin, but that’s mostly because I’m trying to take even more minor head pain seriously nowadays. One of the lessons that I’ve finally learned is not to wait so long to treat the pain. I told Terry today that I realized that I was concerned about taking Excedrin today because I didn’t want to get in a cycle where I was taking it every day. And then I stopped and thought, “So, what if I do?” I’m already taking a bunch of other junk at this point, what does 1 or 2 doses or over the counter medicine a day matter? It doesn’t. And I have even checked that with the neurologist. Doctors seem to have differing opinions on the rebound headache phenomenon (my mother’s neurologist won’t let her take anything acetaminophen-based AT ALL), but mine says that in order to cause a rebound headache, you would have to take something like 4 or 6 doses a day for several days in a row before it would become a problem. So, until I discover otherwise, I’m going to go with what he says.<\/p>\n
I also managed to get some stitching in last night. I worked for a little bit on my piece for the SBEBB Melanie’s exchange and then I actually put a few stitches into my piece for the SBEBB eight sided pillow (biscornu) exchange, mostly so that I could actually say I started it. \ud83d\ude06 Between those two pieces and the model I need to be working on, I’ll need to put in some serious hours this weekend. Another nice thing is that my kit for the Chatelaine Stitching Leporello project arrived on Tuesday. Somehow, I knew it would. That morning, I envisioned myself with the package in hand as I brought back the empty garbage can from the curb (which I do on Tuesday evenings when we get home). Unfortunately, since I went straight upstairs when we arrived home on Tuesday due to the migraine, it wasn’t me who actually retrieved the package, but sure enough, Terry sat it on my pillow upstairs so that I saw it when I was ready to jump into bed and sleep off some headache medication. He’s a sweetie. And a brat, since I had just asked him a couple of minutes before if there was anything in the mail for me and he had said no. \ud83d\ude09 But it was a good surprise! Now I can’t wait to have a little time to prep the fabric and get started on stitching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today has been a much better day so far. I’ve had a really rough 36 hours, but the worst seems to be over. I went through absolute hell last night for about an hour when every inch of my body … Continue reading