Third Thursday

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Thoughts on recent migraines

I just had a glorious week and a half (thereabouts) off for Christmas and New Year, along with Russ and Will and Ethan. Overall, it was fabulous. I really didn't want to go back to work. There were a few instances of wanting to lock the boys in separate rooms, when they just wouldn't leave each other alone, but other than that, things were great.

Except, I had a pesky migraine for much of the time. Around Tuesday (last day of vacation), I fingered the walnuts I'd been sprinkling on my oatmeal and my lunchtime salads. Yesterday, my first day back at work (and my first day of not sleeping in, I might add), was headache free. Hmmm.... Perhaps I shouldn't have blamed the nuts. Maybe the culprit was keeping my lazy ass in bed until 8:00 every morning.

Of course, I will look for any reason to keep nuts in my life. The edible kind, not the human kind. The human kind I can do without, thank you very much. Dare I reintroduce nuts if I promise to keep a normal sleep schedule? Please, oh please?

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

New anti-smoking campaign

Yesterday I ended up staying home with Will. We were getting gas at the full-service gas station, where there was a big ad for Camel cigarettes. Will, who is reading everything these days, asked me why the sign said "Camel." I explained that it was a brand of cigarettes, and I said, "And cigarettes are bad, and you will never, ever smoke them, right?"

And he said, "No, because they turn your lungs black, and then they fall out, and then you die."

So, there you go. Anti-smoking according to a five-year-old.

Friday, July 06, 2007

Oh, my aching head!

What the heck is up with my head? I've had a migraine, to some extent, since Monday morning. This truly sucks. I finally called the neurologist this morning, and he's calling in a prescription for some sort of steroid that I guess will knock this thing out of my head. I need to call Target to see if they got it.

Time to call Target.....