slap me hard...

BOOM indeed!!!


So proud of you hammy, I wish you all the best with your new job

I'm so happy for you.

Congratulations......sounds like a wonderful opportunity.

An aside, but about your migraines.....I have migraines that never go away & normal migraine medication doesn't even phase them. Only thing that gave me 100% pain relief was a very high dose of pain medication which really didn't effect my functioning....but it allowed me to function normally. I would still get the symptoms of the migraine (light flashes, smells making me sick & would actually trigger the migraine pain to break through until I could get into a hot shower & then a quick nap & I was back going again.....however when my pain specialist closed his practice, that high dose of pain medication ended also......not another pain specialist was willing to help until I came upon this older pain specialist.

He was still determined the dose needed to be lowered for my own safety (shoot I'd been on it for over 10 years & not addicted but withdrawal always comes with that medication)......anyway.....he remembered an old treatment for migraines that usually always broke the pain & decided that he would use that & then we would try very slowly to lower the dose. So far I have been able to lower the dose by 1/2 of what I had been on. Each time I lower it, the migraine does hit but with the treatment once a month & about 2 months on the lower dose, the migraines seem to be controlled.

This treatment is strange.....but I asked whether it was new or old & they said that it was an old time treatment that had been forgotten for those people who don't have any success with normal migraine medication. They take lidocane gel & put it on long q-tips & stick it into my nose as far as it can go. Those nerve endings at the back of the nose go directly to where the migraine pain is & it also helps with the pain that happens in my eyes with my migraines....were even blinking hurts my eyes.....it was so amazing.....I've been going to him since April & the success is goes all around the clinic & everyone comes in asking me about it & how it's working. I was shocked that something that simple would have such a wonderful effect on my migraines....I have been dealing with them since 1995 & this is the first treatment I have ever had that had any effect on them other than just covering up the pain.

Just a thought if you can find a MD who might be able to treat you if you get to that really bad place where you can't work any longer.....or even a once a month treatment might keep you from having those kinds of migraine attacks.....just thought I would share since you were commenting that you needed extra days off of work because of your migraines at times

Thank you, Eskie, Psyched, MM, Trippin, and everyone.

I am anxious because of the background search uncertainty. I guess I should not be but I am - not ingesting food, feeling queasy and all of that.

Luckily, I have two small parts in a Nativity play and learning the lines by heart is kind of grounding. Plus, it was my childhood dream to be cast in a Nativity play. And, and, and... I wondered how the costume would fit because I am not, well, extremely thin , and when the organizer wrote to me that she has a size 14 dress, I was afraid that it would be too small, but it was just right. Even a bit loose, because I wore it over my regular skirt and blouse, and for the performance I will be wearing it the regular way.

Tomorrow two potential tenants would look at the place. So far I have only had one person actually come in and look, and I thought he liked it (I allow cats and he has one), but he wrote that he would rent another place, because it is next to his best friend's house. I said: "OK, sure, pass it along, and by the way, here are all the local resources for your cat - the vet, where to get food, etc. - since you are relocating with the cat". He appreciated it and did pass my posting along so one of the people who would look at the place tomorrow is through that guy with a cat.

If I end up with both of them wanting the place, I will choose the person with the better "vibe". I am not going to try to extract more money from the tenant because when your tenant is your roommate, how you get along matters very much. An extra 50-100 bucks would not be worth roommating with a less pleasant person to me, right?..

Eskie I wil read your message in depth once I get medical insurance and will have options. right now I already see a migraine attack coming so let me reach for the Imitrex spray...

Intellectually it is clear to me - I stop eating and drinking because of anxiety, and skipping meals and rehydration give me a migraine attack, and then a vicious cycle start. Understanding this intellectually does nothing to stop the vicious cycle though