Productiveness after Migraine

I had a migraine yesterday –> it actually started the day before, in the afternoon. I was finally rid of it last evening –> I tried many things, including Tylenol (now that I’ve stopped using Excedrin due to being near to my 3rd Trimester of pregnancy in which “asprin” is a no-no due to comlications with labor it can bring on when consumed the last few months before labor should begin) and all in all it was something not so swell to deal with on Monday afternoon when it started, but I dealt with it, and in the evening it got worse, and my Hubby rubbed my head/neck/shoulders later on and it really helped, but didn’t do away with the pain entirely. Then during the night I struggled to sleep and ended up taking a shower in the later after-middle-night/early morning time, and that helped some, but it never went away at all until I went back to bed and fell asleep somewhere between 5am and 6am and slept for over an hour and a half. I awoke and it seemed to be gone, totally. But … late morning it was obvious that I was getting it back again, or a second one, whichever it was.

On the Monday it started I struggled with my emotions and reactions to everything, it was horrible. On the next day then, Tuesday, it was my first clue I was getting a migraine again, my attitude plummeted and I cried and fussed about everything and nothing, fearing the future months as I get closer to delivery time, with Hubby traveling for work … it was triple-horrid, compared to the previous days fussyness of me.

As the day wore on I had more and more breakdown, and by mid-afternoon all I wanted was to lie in bed and read, or whatever. I did end up in the tub at sometime, I think it was afternoon, after trying to lie down and not doing so well with it. I did take some sort of nap in the morning and again and again in the afternoon, but all things tied together, things progressively got worse and nothing seemed to work, and by the time dinner prep was supposed to happen I felt so sick I had to vacate the premises to the master bedroom with the door closed. Poor Hubby was stuck with making dinner all of the sudden, all by himself. On my part it was a wonderful thing to do, I realized for sure at that time that my migraine was indeed the worst it could be, my tummy had shut down and no remedies in their could get into my blood stream. I took three Tums in quick succession in order to calm down how my tummy felt, and so that “in case of having to throw-up” it wouldn’t be an “acidic throw-up” — I avoided my throw-up pending feelings and tried to read, and read a page or two of my book, then put it down, closed my eyes, and dreamed and dreamed and dreamed, then awoke and found it pitch black outside, and the children’s bedroom lights on but no-one in them.

I had no idea what time it was, as we have no clock in our bedroom since the only one in there was from my late-teen years (1980’s) — a Sony Dream Machine that just died in the last week or so. I didn’t feel like going downstairs, but found upon yelling “where is everyone!” that they were downstairs watching a show on TV. Several minutes later Hubby came up and filled me in on the evening’s going ons, and I found out that it was just then 10pm — so I did sleep for quite awhile. In fact I felt much better, wasn’t sure if it was a migraine in recession or if it was gone. It ended up that it was gone, I slept fairly well, and got up in the morning feeling cheery and productive.

Hubby had to go out all day to an appointment hours away, but that didn’t make me upset or cry, and I had all sorts of ideas of things to do in the kitchen today.

Thus far I got my bread in the breadmachine finished today (I now put the ingredients in the day or night before and let the flour absorb the water … and end up with a nicer bread machine loaf the next day.) I made a decent breakfast for the children. I got out some frozen Chuck that I had cubed before freezing some time ago, and let it partially defrost, then used my Kitchen Aide Meat Grinder attachment to grind the cubes so I could make meatballs for spaghetti later.

I used to make meatballs for every spaghetti meal I made, then sometime in the last few years I didn’t feel like doing so, and made the spaghetti sauce a meat sauce, and we liked it alright, and I haven’t made meatballs since.

So today is the re-introduction of meatballs to my spaghetti sauce. 🙂

I’ll get some fresh pasta made later, with my children aiding me by cranking the manual pasta machine for me.

I also made 8 hard-boiled eggs this morning, and then used three of them to make Egg Salad for sandwhiches at lunchtime today. So delicious.

I then had my 8-year-old DD take the very ripe bananas we have, peel them, then mush the banana fruit with a fork, for banana bread. 10-year-old DS did the last few bananas, and in awhile we’ll measure some out and make a couple loaves of banana bread.

This is the most productive I’ve felt in a long time, and it’s nice. Nice to be migraine free after two days of misery. I had more than a week before that without migraines, with just one that started on a Friday around noon, and lingered into Saturday, but didn’t get horridly horrid.

As for how my pregnancy is going, it’s going along otherwise, 5 months + and moving towards the end. I feel big, and will be getting bigger. Baby is active, alot at night usually, and lately (oh, the past few days or so) even more during the day off and on. I am not sure what the baby’s sex is, I’m guessing “girl” due to the migraines, and the next few months will tell the tale through other symptoms if they show up, just weird stuff, as did with my only for sure “girl” pregnancy in 1998 — except that then I felt duller about how I looked, just that I felt drained of prettiness, my hair and face, for instance. I don’t feel so dull thus far, I feel quite “sexy” about myself overall –which is perhaps a “boy” thing, in me — so there, I have two major opposing symtoms from previous pregnancy patterns. My boy pregnancies were nice, I felt pretty good after the first 12 weeks, and with #1 got no migraines, and with #3 only got a few mild ones later on; with #2 I had debilatating migraines the whole time (#! and #3 the boy pregnancies, #2 the girl pregnancy.) So even looking at that I must say, my current migraines are nothing like that #2 migraine sorts. I’d lay on the couch for three days in utter misery with ice bags on my neck and head … the only thing that did anything for me, just let me lay there with frozen pain, but it took that long for the actual migraine to resolve. Of course I have 8 or so years of migraine experience since then, so maybe I just deal with them better now, or have better early-migraine remedies, see them coming when before I might have ignored the signs, etc.

So maybe this is a boy, afterall, but time will tell. I prefer, since I had #1 and #2, one of each sex, to just wait and see what the baby was at birth. So that translates to 1 birth experience like that, and it was fantastic! I surely recommend that everyone do the same starting with their first baby. In today’s world everyone does “scans” with their OB’s and even some midwifery homebirth women go for scans. I didn’t with #3, was totally natural, even avoided doppler for heartbeat checks. Very old-fashioned it was, and oh so nice. I’m doing the same with this current babe, thus far (re-evaluation always a possibility due to circumstance that may arise.)

The weather here today is lovely, sunny and warm, starting at 7am with 40 degrees, up to 55 degrees at 10am, 61 degrees at 11am, and then 69 at 1pm. Spring is in the air! I’ve noted twitterpated Eastern Bluebirds this past week. I need to check their box later today. I had seen some House Sparrows fooling around with the box back in early February, the first of their kind to show up around here — which means nothing to me but “civilization is getting too close, too populized, too commercialized” — they are great enemies of Bluebirds.

It’s time to start with gardening too. Hedging out any frozen nights to come in a snap, our weather outlook for the next 15 days goes past our Normal Last Freeze day of March 15. Last night was supposed to be mid-30’s and most of the rest of the lows the next 15-days are in the 40’s or higher.

We haven’t had a fire in the fireplace in a long while, it’s been that mild, so yes, Spring is officially here. Pollen counts have been high the last couple of weeks. One of our trees is starting to bud out, it should be filled with beautiful white flowers soon. I’ve seen cherry trees around here in bloom (the K. variety, whatever that name is, I don’t recall.) We have the other variety, Yoshino, and ours are not doing anything yet. It’ll be soon that things will green up, like the Weeping Willow Tree, the Pussy Willow bush, and all the other trees and plants. Not all lawns and pastures here go brown during the winter, and the ones that don’t are very spring green already.

Now that I’ve sat here for awhile typing, I should close and get up and get a few more things going, get others done, etc. I’ve had a decent rest. 🙂