No Music Friday
May. 12th, 2020 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunI went to the doctor today and found out that the migraines I've just been thinking are bad due to weather and stress and you know *gestures everywhere* weren't just migraines. Those migraines and some of the symptoms of the new migraine pills I've been taking have been masking an ear infection that I've only now noticed because the pain was radiating into my jaw, which I definitely knew was not supposed to be migraine related. I assumed it was like a low grade cold or something, but no. Apparently my ear canal is extremely swollen and I really should've noticed by now.
I was doing the thing a lot of us with chronic illness due, especially in times of stress, I was ignoring stronger or slightly more overwhelming symptoms and just sort of gritting through the pain because that's what I needed to do to get through the day. I was dismissing them as eh, it's just this, it's just that. Meanwhile I knew I was more tired than usual, that the nausea was more severe than normal and that I was routinely tracking pain levels between 8-10 every day which is uncommon for me for so many days in the row. And I was working through it without breaks because working from home means I can make my situation work better for me, my screen is darker, I have filtered glasses, I can keep the lights off and a heat pack nearby. All things I wouldn't have or couldn't accommodate the same way in the office.
Were this a "normal" situation I would've already gone to the doctor for the migraines alone, knowing they were too much to handle for me. Instead of gritting my way through each stressful workday and then passing out for two hours each night after work because my brain just needed to shut down. It wasn't normal though I after twenty years of living with chronic illness I K N O W better. I just was trying to live like this wasn't getting to me, because that's what I'm good at.
Except now I have to take off work today and maybe Monday, we'll see while I take some rest and some antibiotics and get better again.
We did also take the Duke dog into the vet this morning. She couldn't find anything specific wrong with him either. She suggested based on the way he was acting and holding himself that he likely slipped a disc in his back or at the very least sprained something in his back. She gave him some pain meds and an anti-inflammatory which almost immediately seemed to be helping. If he's not better in a week we'll take him back and get a work up with x-rays done but based on his response already I think that might not be necessary. The fact that he's eating and drinking like normal is still the best sign it's nothing too serious.
So, so new music post from me today and maybe not from this weekend at all. I plan to chill and enjoy Mother's Day if I can. I might put together another horror movie post if I can muster the thoughts for it. Hope you all have a good weekend.
I was doing the thing a lot of us with chronic illness due, especially in times of stress, I was ignoring stronger or slightly more overwhelming symptoms and just sort of gritting through the pain because that's what I needed to do to get through the day. I was dismissing them as eh, it's just this, it's just that. Meanwhile I knew I was more tired than usual, that the nausea was more severe than normal and that I was routinely tracking pain levels between 8-10 every day which is uncommon for me for so many days in the row. And I was working through it without breaks because working from home means I can make my situation work better for me, my screen is darker, I have filtered glasses, I can keep the lights off and a heat pack nearby. All things I wouldn't have or couldn't accommodate the same way in the office.
Were this a "normal" situation I would've already gone to the doctor for the migraines alone, knowing they were too much to handle for me. Instead of gritting my way through each stressful workday and then passing out for two hours each night after work because my brain just needed to shut down. It wasn't normal though I after twenty years of living with chronic illness I K N O W better. I just was trying to live like this wasn't getting to me, because that's what I'm good at.
Except now I have to take off work today and maybe Monday, we'll see while I take some rest and some antibiotics and get better again.
We did also take the Duke dog into the vet this morning. She couldn't find anything specific wrong with him either. She suggested based on the way he was acting and holding himself that he likely slipped a disc in his back or at the very least sprained something in his back. She gave him some pain meds and an anti-inflammatory which almost immediately seemed to be helping. If he's not better in a week we'll take him back and get a work up with x-rays done but based on his response already I think that might not be necessary. The fact that he's eating and drinking like normal is still the best sign it's nothing too serious.
So, so new music post from me today and maybe not from this weekend at all. I plan to chill and enjoy Mother's Day if I can. I might put together another horror movie post if I can muster the thoughts for it. Hope you all have a good weekend.
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