A Very Muddled Week

Ally's description, "This has been a very muddled week". So accurate.

It started last Saturday with me going to the Curves gym (recently joined to deal with stress and apalling level of fitness) and developing a blinding, excruciating headache halfway thruogh the circuit. Carted off in an ambulance. Nausea and vomiting, photophobia. In retrospect, classic migraine symptoms.

It was decided, eventually, that I'd had a sudden migraine. Fortunately, I don't have these evil headaches very often, but in the past there's been some warning: a thudding headache that doesn't go away, thirst and fatigue. One coming on suddenly was rather disturbing. I was out and couldn't get back home under my own steam. What if that happens again?

I'll go back to Curves, but I'm really nervous about doing so.

Oh, and there's nothing like a shot of morphine to deal with pain, and Stemetil for nausea/vomiting (Maxolon didn't work).

Took a couple of days to throw that post-migraine weird, disoriented state.

A long appointment sucked up Tuesday. I did fly in to work and do the pays though - disgruntled employees weren't on my agenda.

The usual routine was thrown completely by now. Transporting kids uses so much time. With Giles, mostly I drop him and some mates at the favoured surf beach, one of the other kid's parents pick them up. It's still a 1.5 hour round trip to drop them off. Sometimes, if the bus timetable works, they can catch the bus both ways. Their favoured surfing area, Red Bluff, doesn't have a bus for them to catch home. V-Line buses = strange timetables.

I managed to buy some food and pick up Leah from Lakes Entrance, where she'd stayed with a friend. Leah looked pretty crook, she could hardly speak. Criminal sore throat. GP appointment...tonsillitis? All the glands around her jaw were huge. Can only imagine the state of her tonsils. Antibiotics prescribed and duly taken. I worry about her fluid intake. It's so painful to swallow that the poor kid just isn't drinking.

Thursday: buy more food. Take Leah to A&E because she finds it hard to breathe, and looks really "flat". Leah is admitted to hospital, IV fluids perk her up a bit. But only a bit. She's on her third type of antibiotic now.

Ah, but the waiting with Leah in A&E meant reading time! Good progress made on this:

When I read As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, well, I was going to Spain. Never did though. A friend who read it around the same time spent three months in Spain with her baby daughter.

I've enjoyed all of Laurie Lee's books. This one came from the op-shop. How lucky! A $50 book for a couple of dollars. I'm enjoying this biography.

This pre-order came too, last week:

Resisting starting it until I'm done with the Laurie Lee biography!

Back in the early 80's I read Monkey Grip. My impressionable seventeen-year-old self wanted in to that lifestyle. Never did though.

Comments

[Marie]

So sorry to read about your trip to hospital, however you missed the best bit...what where the ambo's like..worth it or not? LOL. Well you have to find some fun in what sounds like a rotten week for you all. I on the other hand have gotten a couple of little coin purses done some melly and me giraffes and an elephant.. happy me
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[bex]

Ouch! Nothing worse than a throwy uppy migraine. Poor you! Glad that's all it was though.
Hope the kid feels better soon, it's all a bit much isn't it?
The covers of the books are worth it alone...Xxx

[Kez]

What a shocker of a week! I've never had a migraine that bad luckily - although I did have one where my eyes were constantly wobbling and I was unable to see for several hours. That was scary too! (No ambulance ride for me though!)

[Carolyn]

What a bugger of a week! Just not what you need, I'm sure, to have an ambulance ride too.

I hope the books bring you some peace and joy! (Sounds like Christmas, but I hope you know what I mean!!)

[Kate]

Oh my goodness I hope you are fully recovered now and this weeks has been better!

[Victoria]

That does sound like a strange and difficult (or muddled) week. Migranes suck, maybe one day there'll be some magic cures, I am a great believer in the future anvances of medicine (only half joking). So looking forward to reading the new Helen Garner book. I first read Moneky Grip at the age of 18 having been dumped by the love of my life (we got back together a few months later but it was seriously the end of the world at the time) and it was somehow very affirming and comforting!!