[5/366] Sunday morning

[cosmolinguist]

5 What’s your favorite way to spend a Sunday morning?

The gym at the end of my road has a yoga class at 9:15 on Sunday mornings. It wasn't as busy as the ones I went to in evenings other times of the week, and it was a nice way to start the day. I can't go any more though, as I work Sunday mornings.

Indeed this Sunday morning was my first day back at work since before Christmas. It was very difficult to get up when my alarm went off! But it was also kind of nice to get back to the routine of shower-breakfast-dog walk first thing in the morning.

Unfortunately while I felt absolutely fine when I left for work, by the time I got off the bus I was feeling a little dizzy and nauseous. I told L, when he asked me how I was, that I thought it was the bus driver's driving: lots of going too fast only to have to stop again, jolting turns... But I didn't feel any better after a few minutes of taking things easy. I felt worse. Eventually I figured out that I was getting a migraine.

So I got through work (pretty brain-fogged by the end of it, though), had tea and Migraleve and a nap, and felt better enough to eat some leftovers in time for Doctor Who. Which I enjoyed!

I'd have liked to get some essay work done, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. Migraines are so frustrating, they can just sneak up on you and eat up a whole day when you really can't afford that.

Comments

[barakta]

Urgh to migraine! Often when you're most stressed and need the fuckers the least as well.

[cosmolinguist]

Stress is the only trigger I know of for my migraines. So honestly I'm amazed I got through Christmas/parental visit/etc. without one.

[barakta]

Many visually impaired people I know have migraines from stress of vision stuff... How are your parents at understanding migraine? I have a nasty feeling "not very" but sometimes people believe migraine when they don't believe the stress/physical trigger for it...

Migraines are the shite!

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah I started getting them fairly late in life, my mid-20s, but since I get a lot of migraines without pain symptoms, it's possible I was getting them before and blaming them on my eyes being bad. I get bad visual auras, but they're just like fuzzy patches in my visual field, as if a static filter had been laid over everything I see. And that isn't terribly different from how my nystagmus can affect my sight. Even now, after a dozen years of migraines, I sometimes think "oh my eyes aren't working today" and only realize it's a migraine when other symptoms, like nausea or sensitivity to light/sound/smells, turn up.

My mom gets migraines too, which means she's sort of sympathetic but as always she doesn't understand how anyone's experience can be different from her. She gets classic visual auras, very obvious ones not like mine. And she always has a severe headache. So I happened to talk to my parents this evening and mentioned the migraine when they asked how my day had been. Mom expressed sympathy for my headache, I said I didn't have one and she said "You don't get that pounding headache?!" We've discussed this before but clearly since it doesn't fit into her worldview it doesn't stick in her brain. :) Also the idea of "sometimes this happens to me and sometimes it doesn't" isn't one that my parents are very good at either.

[softfruit]

Is that the gym at the library or another? M19 might contain all sorts of wonders I have yet to know the wot of...

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah the one at the library.

[lucymorningstar]

Ugh, migraines are awful. I've only ever had a couple and they've been side-effects from medication. hope you're feeling better today