Make the pain go away...

6:00 am--I woke up this morning with a headache..or what I perceived to be a headache. I took two Tylenol and went back to bed for 20 minutes, believing that when the alarm went off again at 6:20, I would be magically healed and ready to take on the day.

Flash forward to 6:20am--I am not magically healed. My head still hurts, so again, I tried the 20 minute rule to headache treatment.

Flash forward to 6:47am--After 20 minutes and two hits of the snooze button, I deem myself in possession of a migrain (and seriously late for work if I don't get moving).

Flash forard to 8:25am--I get to work late, not because I didn't leave home until 7:55, but because of a minor fender bender that closed one lane of the two lane bridge I cross daily from the Southside to the near Westend (over the James River). When I did arrive, my headache was still there, I had eaten no breakfast in preparation of my dentist appointment (I was only going to brush and floss once before my appointment for a cleaning at 12 noon), and I came into work with problem after problem waiting to be resolved.

Flash forward to 4:30pm--Did I mention that I have a headache..nay, a migrain that is making my life miserable? Although it's not a debilitating migrain, the 6 Tylenol I have consumed today have not diminished it. The nausea has not abated. I still want to cry. I want to go home, take a nice warm shower, put on jammies, and chill out until about 9pm. I do not want to feel guilty about skipping the gym tonight, or about eating a dinner of strictly carbs (because honestly, noodles make the world go round).

I'm happy about having clean teeth (and slightly sore gums), bummed because I have a cavity that needs to be repaired, and very tired of this headache which is a precursor to the rain and thunderstorms that should be moving into the area tonight. Freakazoid that is myself only gets migrains when there's a weather change involving rain on the way (usually when it goes from hot to cold), though the change for tomorrow is only going from 85 today to 70 tomorrow. That's not a huge adjustment, but an adjustment nonetheless.

After I moved to Richmond, I used to go to Chick Filet when I had migrains. Nothing can cure me, but a chicken sandwich, waffle fries, and a giant Coke classic always seemed to help. Now, I'm too poor to buy that, so I'm going to settle for a Mickey D's iced tea on the way home, and settle my tummy (and hopefully kill the demon headache spawn still in my head) with a bowl of egg noodles.

Mmmmmmm....noodles.