4 responses to “Mish Mosh Migraines”

1. 

   Tamara (AK)

   Saturday, February 17, 2007

   ((Maisy)),

   Hope you are hanging in there and even feeling better. 🙂 I have forgotten – how many weeks are you?

   It’s that time of year when I think of all my southern friends and how close Spring is for them…and think I need a plane ticket to fly *this* coop! LOL Any gardening plans this year?

   The AKan “Lurker”

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2. 

   Maisy

   Sunday, February 18, 2007

   Thanks for stopping by! I love comments, get them and give them rarely, but that’s OK, it’s the way of this “introvert” that I am. 😉

   I’m still getting migraines, but not overwhelmingly so ones. I have tried a few things that were on the wikipedia page I found about migraines, and one is an “ice cream” trick to get rid of the pain, sort of the “ice cream headache” thing, recreate that to acually get RID of the pain of migraine.

   I have used it to reduce one migraine for sure, make it “in the backround” and not disabling me from doing anything, though I still could see it and feel it in other ways, but that was interesting … I have used that trick again and I think it did work, with some other things and so, I have a pint of vanilla organic ice cream in the freezer just for me to have one small spoon here and there for a migraine.

   My muscles are still tight, they are hard to get rid of and I’m trying still to get DH to rub them regularly so we can see if that helps.

   The “hand/arm” thing is still here, but it’s not as “bad” as it was before, though still bad enough. It’s weird, I can feel it all the way up my arm and around my shoulder and down my back a bit to that “spot” that is my bain always, about right next to my mid-shoulderblade, midway bewteen my spine and actual shoulderblade.

   It’s not always doing it, just mostly when I use my hands to type or write or stir something (cooking) for more than a short time, but it’s only a sort of tingly thing now, when the first week of it, it was horridly tingly. In any case, if I sit back or lay down I can feel it in my arm, just doing nothing but nothing, from laying or sitting back. It goes into my hand eventually in those cases too, but it doesn’t do it right away, not any of it in any sort of pattern for sure, except that “to do certain things, it will come eventually, no doubt”.

   In every case though, I can feel it connected to my back, that area it where it ends.

   It’s the reason I haven’t blogged lately, I hadn’t even turned this laptop on until yesterday, a full week off of it. It’s absolute though that it’s not as bad as it was earlier on, but it’s a deeper pain that I get in my arm and joints along the pathway it takes to my back, like at night, in bed. I have to sit up to sleep some, try this and that way, sit forward and read for awhile, get up and walk around a bit.

   It truly feels alot like other things I’ve had in the past, that always resolve themselves at some point naturally. Not that I have them often, not at all, just here and there over the years a few to a couple more times, all different places, but similar in so many ways. FWIW

   Other than that I’m OK, some days more productive than others, my usual way anyhow. 🙂

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   Garden plans, yes, sometime in the past months I’ve written some on that, since being preggo I think [edit: here is that post – Gardening 2007 ]

   DH promises to help me this year and we’ll hopefully have a big garden full of tomatoes, green beans, red peppers, and lots more, lettuce, broccoli, sweet potatoes, green onions, etc.

   It’s mid-Febuary and our usual “last frost date” is mid-March — we’ll get prep things going in March, but I won’t put things in the ground until later, I think it’s best NOT to get things out in Spring right when everthing is going nuts, that is also when the worst bad stuff if starting up, and so it might be a better success on our part, I’m thinking, to start everything indoors and let it all get big and healthy and ready to transplant later, after the initial “flush” of Spring.

   We have “two” growing season too, being in the South, so we’ll do more stuff later as Summer winds down.

   We’ll be putting in totally new areas for the gardening this year (2007) so that will be the outdoor prep we start with pretty soon, and get it weed free before we plant. I am looking forward to soon going to the stores and getting the things needed to start seeds inside, and look through all the cool seed things that are out there now. Just going to Home Depot even, there are good organic and old-fashion choices to be made. 🙂

   I haven’t started seeds inside, myself, ever, though my Dad did in PA, years ago. It will be fun. I hope I can do this all naturally, with “organic”-like ways to get good growth and fruit development, and combat foes of disease and bug.

   I always have high-hopes in my head planning of things, and truly hope my plans for Gardening 2007 will be 75% as good as I’m thinking of, at the least.

   I’m gearing up in my head though, and excited thinking of it and looking forward to some warmer days (though this winter hasn’t been that bad, but has had many cold days this past month.) I see the buds on trees, plants outside, more and more getting ready for spring, and as soon as it’s time they full plump up, it’s my favorite time of year in some ways, the pre-flush, it’s like Christmas Eve, sort of, the mounting anticapation, magic brewing in the air … life about to bud out into fullness.

   —

   As for hour far along I am, about 22 weeks, due around June 18th, I think. I haven’t been to my midwife yet (soon-ish.)

   We’ve got lots of stuff to go through to get ready, all my “baby” stuff is mostly in the garage and some of it mouses have probably gotten into. It’s been over 6 years since the last baby was a baby, so … I will be needing to replace somethings. Our strollers were chewed and ickied up, I know, which is sad, I had two really nice ones. All that baby gear the mousies love to chew and go poo on.

   I’m looking so forward to being able to cloth diaper again! It’s a chore that I love, chaning baby, getting the diapers washed and dried and folding them, and just using them, seeing baby in them. 🙂 I hope I don’t have to replace any of that, but DH doesn’t even know where he put them in the garage, nor what they are in, to my dismay.

   Everything just went in there at some point after our 2000 Sept. baby, since we didn’t have any others come along until the other year, over 4 years after, but that ended early, so now this one is very hopeful and we almost feel like we are starting over with baby stuff.

   Also, our youngest now is 6. He’s the eldest any of our children have been when a new baby arrived. Our eldest will be 11 when this one is born, he was 4 when the now 6-year-old was born. He (the current baby of the family) is not so keen on losing the “baby” spot it’s seeming from his ‘con-baby’ comments of late. I’m trying to make him “pro-baby” actively now, and I think he’ll come around soon. He’s special because he’s HIM, not because he’s the “youngest” –so he has nothing to worry about, though he’s naturally doing so, for some inate reason. 🙂

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3. 

   Becky Johnson

   Saturday, March 3, 2007

   Hello sis,
   How are you? I am hoping that you are well. Just wanted you to know I am keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.

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4. 

   Maisy

   Monday, March 5, 2007

   Thank you Becky dear. I am doing alright not too shabby, not too great, if that makes sense. 🙂

   I have something going on in my back or neck that connects to my right arm an it’s being a tough cookie to get resolved, home made trials of remedy. I haven’t ever gone to any professional about tight muscles or pinched nerves, so I’m doing my normal thing and dealing with it best I can.

   I appreciate your prayers! I’m feeling very fat (pregnant) for the last few weeks, it’s all getting closer to the end … June isn’t that far away — 🙂

   Thanks for stopping by. Love to you and your family. ((hugs))

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