That Explains A Lot
posted in Shaping Up |This morning I realized why yesterday my brain wasn’t working quite right. I woke up with one of those dagger-in-me-right-eye headaches. It’s been so long since I’ve had one of those that I didn’t recognize the symptoms. So most of the day I was kind of surly and out of sorts, and couldn’t exactly place my finger on why.
This headache is different from the “omigod i need caffeine” headache. That one is more of a sick feeling and a dull pounding, roaring in my head kind of headache. The dagger in my eye one is the one where I put my hand over my right eye to feel better. It really does feel like something’s sticking in my head. This morning, I dosed up with ibuprofen, antihistamine and pseudopseudofed and went back to bed. After an hour’s sleep, I felt surprisingly better. My brain usually feels like mush after one of those headaches, which is why they’re so bad for me; the day before, it feels like it’s not working and the day after it feels exhausted and bruised.
To all of you who’ve suffered with me the last few days, I’m sorry. I’ll try to be better for at lest the next five or six minutes.
