Better

Just an update so you don't continue to feel sorry for me.  I went to the new neurologist.  He said basically I'm stuck in a constant migraine, so trying to find out my triggers while I'm in a migraine is pointless.  Like once a gun has shot you, you don't stop being wounded just by looking for and smashing the gun that shot you...you're already shot so you have to get medical attention before you start looking for the gun.  Probably a bad analogy, but "trigger," you know.

So they gave me a shot of some strong anti-inflammatory, the same dose as if you go into the ER (Teradol?).  Afterward I fainted.  I was able to get an MRI appointment right afterward so they had to wheel me down!

Then I drove back to work and felt so much better from the shot.  I was actually enjoying the sun instead of cursing it.  I came back to work and my coworkers were like, "Whoa, you look like a different person...what did they GIVE you?!"

I'm also on five days of steroids, and I have a script for Imitrex and one for anti nausea.  The doctor will call me next week to go over the results of my MRI and check up on my pain levels.  Every once in a while I get a little hint that a migraine is starting, but then it just goes away.  I've been off all milk and caffeine for several weeks and now that I've been broken out of my migraine cycle, I'll continue to avoid them to see if it makes a difference.  I'm almost hoping I get another migraine so I'll know that's not the problem, because I really miss cheese and butter.  And chocolate, and most baked goods (even most breads have milk in them!), and sour cream and cream cheese and cereal.  But I'm proud of myself for making it this far; I only forgot once and had some cheese.

I bought a Groupon for Joe and I to go to the LeMay car collection.  We went to the car museum in Tacoma first but it was actually a different location, in Puyallup.  So we went to the other location, which is mostly in large unheated warehouses.  Not as comfortable, but I enjoyed the tour more than I thought I would, and for $15 for both of us together, I'm not complaining!

Came home and took a nap.  Took care of some Costco ground beef that's been sitting in the fridge for a week and is now brown.  Did the cat litter.  To do:  Make dinner.  Go to work to get some stuff I forgot.  Clean the bathrooms!  Read my Sunday school lesson when I get the book from work. 

I'm doing childcare tomorrow and I'm excited to do it without pain.  I realize now that I've been dreading it the last few times!