firstly, sewing updates!
This is Surprise #1.
I have pinned, re-pinned and re-re-pinned those ruffles so many times. I’ve got to make a few more, and then some smaller different shaped ones. Haven’t attached the collar piece yet, it’s just pinned on.
once i have them all made they get thrown in the dye.
So anyway, yesterday I had my doctor’s appt about my migraines. My 3rd time trying to get something done about the migraines. (The first time was the “hey you’re anemic and you have no blood go to the hospital now” and the second one was “your blood pressure is high right now, you need to take all these beta blockers.”) I went to a new doctor and liked him a lot. (Liked my old one too, but felt like I wasn’t getting where I needed to be).
He talked with me a lot about various things, trying to rule stuff out – the anemia, the hospital visit, etc. Tested my strength, all that kind of stuff. I had my mom there to tell him that she started getting migraines around my age, too, and after years of no help was finally prescriped a drug she takes everyday and doesn’t have them anymore. So he prescriped me Imitrex. Went ahead and picked it up last night – I’m really hoping it’s going to work for me. It would be such a relief. I don’t even know how to tell you. I’m just tired of every few weeks having 2, 3 even 4 days where my life just stops. Of course I was especially worried about Dragoncon – last year I got one the Tuesday before we left. By Thursday it was fading but still bothering me, and left me feeling tired and hollowed-out the rest of the weekend. I’m hoping if that happens again this medicine will stop it.
Today I get home to a bill for my iron infusion back in May. $200. Can’t spare that right now. I’m a little ticked it cost that much. All the more reason not to get another one. I know I said back then that I wasn’t going to argue about it anymore because I’d noticed symptoms – but then on hindsight realised those were symptoms of dehydration (leg cramps: I was taking water pills for a week) – not my anemia.
Anyway – enough whining for the night… time to go make ruffles!