This is post #2 for June, so I should be writing it on June 2. This is what I've done ever since our blogging project started in January. I've been faithful. But now I'm unfaithful. It's not June 2, it's June 6. I suck.
Last week the Lyme spirochetes I carry with me took advantage of a break in my resistance and rose up like prisoners might if all the guards took a mental health day. After months without experiencing a single one of the dreaded ocular migraines, I had five of them in six days. Looking at computer monitors triggers them, as do fluorescent lights. So I've been spending less time at the computer. I'll whine about what started this problem in my next post.
I get ocular migraines and I kind of like them because they are so trippy. It's like sitting there while a hologram of a huge flashing oval pulls me into its center. Mine are not accompanied by pain. Sometimes I get them several days in a row, sometimes not for months. I agree that computer monitors and fluorescent lights trigger mine (along with not eating breakfast).
ReplyDeleteBut if you don't like them and/or yours are painful, then that's another story so sorry you had to deal with them this week. And I've missed you!
Thanks, Kim and Dona. I've missed you too! I've had only one full-blown, take-to-my-bed migraine in my life, and one, more recently and also very painful, that woke me in the middle of the night. Usually my ocular migraines involve grey blobs that obscure my vision, followed by shimmering C shapes. Then either no pain or just enough pain to distract and disturb me. I hate them. Maybe it's because I hate that ticks have messed with my brain waves. Or maybe I just don't like to trip. :-)
ReplyDeleteI used to have them, though I haven't in years. Never any pain, though I always felt hung-over the next day. I absolve you for the posts you missed.
ReplyDeleteOMG. So awful. And, as you know, I disappear for 10–14 days at a time. And I seem to be forgiven. We just miss you.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry to hear about the health issues, Susan. Big hugs, and take care of yourself. That includes not beating yourself up about being unfaithful: I've ceased any pretence at keeping up with a daily post, so if it makes you feel any better, your suck factor is far less sucky than mine.
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You DO NOT suck. The illness sucks. The ticks suck. Do what you can, when you can. Catch up if you want. Don't if you can't.
ReplyDelete(Also, they make me afraid to venture into the wilds of Pa or Vermont.)
Or anywhere on the East Coast, really, Mali.
DeleteOr Canada, now.
DeleteOr Missouri.
DeleteGood grief. You guys really want to have a bloggers' reunion in Italy, don't you?!
DeleteItaly just agreed with trump to allow Russia into back into the G8. So Italy is out for me.
DeleteAnd the USA is now out for me.
DeleteI've had one ocular migraine, not accompanied by pain, but accompanied by full blown panic attack because those re the absolute freakiest.
ReplyDeleteI am behind every month as well. And I hate that feeling. I want to be a part of all this. But then I slip.