I hope everyone had a safe and good Fourth of July. I had a migraine most of the late afternoon and through the night. I guess you could say I had my own personal fireworks going on. It is still not completely gone. I am hoping the extra boost of caffeine in my coffee will help. Sometimes, as in this case, it is like my body “works” up to the migraine. For the last 3 to 4 days my head gave me warnings so to speak. It is like it plays hide-n-seek with me. It makes me anxious which doesn’t help. Once it hits, I have to have it dark, silent and cold. For whatever reason, mine are always on the left side of my head and behind my left eye.
There is a history of migraines in my family on my mother’s side. As a kid I remember my mother being out of commission for days. The times it got completely unbearable she went to the emergency room and the only way they could help was to knock her out. She would then need to “recover”. She basically lost days of her life to a migraine.
She had them all her life, even as a young child. Her father also suffered with them. As he hit his elderly years, they eased off and he didn’t have them hardly at all. I didn’t have my first experience with this type of headache until I was an adult. Thank goodness I don’t get as sick as my mom with each migraine. I don’t get sick to my stomach as often as she did. When mine is bad enough that I am that sick, those are the kinds that make me want to put my head in a vise like the uncle on Addams Family. I think his name was Uncle Fester?
As the years went by the medical world came up with specific drugs to help with migraines and I think my mother tried them all. Eventually her doctor seemed to find a combination that worked and her bouts with the ugly migraines became less and less. I do not have them near as much as she ever did. For that I am thankful.
My husband once every blue moon gets a migraine and since he is on the road more than he is home, he has to deal with it while in the truck. Basically he finds a spot and shuts down for however long it takes to get through it. I feel for him very much for the circumstances of dealing with it on the road. Thank goodness he doesn’t get them very often. For all you folks on the road who deal with them, I am sorry and I empathize with you.
Here in my small town this Fourth of July it rained and rained and rained. It rained. We are near a lake and I imagine there were many who gave up, packed up and went home, especially those at the campgrounds. Around ten last night I heard the last hurrahs of firecrackers and then thank goodness silence.
I enjoy the big firework shows as much as the next person, but I don’t get the firecracker and bottle rocket deal. As a kid I loved sparklers and I think that is a girly thing. My dad, refused to buy anything that had the potential to blow off a couple of fingers or take an eye out. I heard the horrors as much as the kid in A Christmas Story, “You’ll shoot your eye out. You’ll loose a hand.”
Speaking of horrors, has anyone else seen the price of coffee go through the roof? What is there a shortage of coffee beans suddenly? Is there something I missed in the news about coffee being rationed? All I know is my coffee jumped two dollars in two weeks! I refused to pay it and bought a different brand at the price I normally pay. If I don’t like it, I will learn to.
This reminds me of an interview I saw of Gene Simmons talking to William Shatner on his show, Raw. Gene talked about leaving Israel and coming to American when he was around eight years old. The first time he and his mother went into a grocery store, they were so overwhelmed they had to leave. To him it was a city of food. He had never seen such abundance of food in his life.
Sometimes I stand in the cereal isle for twenty minutes trying to decide. There are too many choices. Oh don’t get me wrong. I love having all the choices, but sometimes even I feel a little overwhelmed. Gene’s comments made me wonder just how we must seem to those who come from countries with nothing like what we have here. Not just food, but everything. I think that abundance causes some in other countries to hate us even more than just their upbringing of hate. I am not saying we should apologize for our abundance, I am just trying to imagine how we are seen through other’s eyes.
Wow, I went from migraines to people who hate us. Maybe I need to lie down a little longer. I hope you have a great week.
Take care and stay safe,
KJ
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