Writing with a headache…

…just ain’t possible. I am getting better at noticing the difference between a headache because of my neck and that same headache on its way to a migraine. I caught it in time today. Took my med, got tucked into bed with my ‘hose nose’ on, a pillow over my head, and concentrated on breathe in, breathe out.

I actually slept for about two hours. I woke up with it 95% gone. The final bit of it left after I ate and took another med.

I hate taking pills. I take far too many daily ones without adding in something like this. I take 17 pills a day from 9 different medications. 2 anti-depressants, 2 anti-hypertensions, and one each of anti-inflammatory, thyroid, potassium, muscle relaxer, and migraine. Then add in the PRN migraine med, the inhaler, and the muscle relaxer can be tripled. My pharmacy knows my voice on the phone.

Luckily, Medicaid pays for 6 prescriptions a month or else I would have to pay out over $500 a month. I still pay nearly $90 a month out of pocket. At one point I had 12 different medications.

We call my medications by nicknames so I don’t sound like a pill addict. Usually we go by appearance, especially if it is one I have been on for a long time. Like ‘blue thing’ or ‘purple football’. My muscle relaxer we call ‘laxer’. Anything we can do to take their mental power away. You know?

Nothing I have will kill me, which most days is a good thing. 😉

At any rate, I still managed to get 1562 words done today on ‘Scholarly Way/Centric’. Have you gone to read the snippet yet? Let me know what you think of it.

I need to do some more research about editing. Oy.