headache, headache, go away....

...DON'T come again another day....

Oh, I am SO tired of headaches. I've had one every day for a couple of weeks now. And it's been about two weeks on (headache pretty much every day), two weeks off (no headaches) ever since summer. This is getting ridiculous. Not to mention horribly frustrating and painful. I'm only allowed to take excedrin a couple of times a week, and that's the only thing that comes close to taking them away, so I have to plan my life around the days I can take excedrin. Those are the only days I get much accomplished. I've been on different medicine for preventing them, but nothing seems to be working very well. I'm on my third medicine now for that.

Last week I had the worst headache of my life, I think. It involved hours of laying in my dark bedroom doing nothing (once my husband got home from work....before that I was in pain on the couch with Rachel bounding in and out of the room). Once I finally got to my room I couldn't sleep because it hurt too badly. I couldn't read or watch TV because the light bothered me too much. I've never had it that bad before. The next day was my regular monthly visit with the neurologist/headache specialist, so I guess that was good timing, if there is such a thing as good timing for a headache. I have to have an MRI of my brain Thursday to make sure it isn't anything serious, since that's a new type of headache for me.

Today we're having friends over for dinner (it's been postponed twice now and is finally happening tonight). I had to plan to take excedrin today so I could get cleaning and cooking done today. Of all days, today I woke up with a headache, which NEVER happens. The excedrin has kept it from getting any worse, but it's still there. Ugh.

Okay, I'm done whining now. I just had to get my frustration out a little......

(And the other day, when Rachel told me she wants to be just like Mommy, all I could think of was, "I hope you're not just like me because that would mean you get these headaches.")

(Oh, and today, she told me she was going to grow up and be just like a Wiseman. I think she means from the Nativity story. That's the only context in which she knows what a wise man is.)