Sunday, 15 November 2015

Weak weekend


This weekend has been a very, very low key one.
            On Friday afternoon I was flying through the day, had three calls left until the end of the day and had a mountain of emails ready to be sent having finally got feedback from our legal teams on the wording of a couple of contracts. Then, while eating apples, my eyes decided to stop working, and the rest of the weekend went downhill from there.
            When I get migraines, I don’t just get the delightful headache, in fact, I very rarely get as far as the headache, it’s all the terrible bits before that which I have to handle. Tunnel vision, blurred vision, a loss of coherent speech, the inability to link words, names and letters either with the object they represent, or to string them into a sentence.


It’s no fun at all, and the only way to battle through it is to take some magic migraine pills and then go to bed until it’s passed. Friday was spent in bed in a darkened room from 1:30 until around 7pm when Nick came home and I ventured out to eat eggs with toast soldiers (comfort food) and then was back in bed by 9pm. 
            On Saturday I was feeling slightly more chipper, so we ventured out of the house on a very slow, very steady little Christmas shopping trip, topping up on festive essentials and ensuring that we were getting our fill of sequins and Christmas music.
            On Sunday, after a very long sleep and a very restful Saturday, I was awake and working on wedding jobs at 9am, but then was back in bed in the recovery position again from noon.
            I managed to drag myself out of bed for a quite dinner with Andy who is passing through town this week and who likes to have a quick catch up when he’s here, but other than that, my entire day was spent horizontal, sleeping. I don’t know if I have ever slept quite so much, but I am hoping that it was enough to put me on the straight and narrow, and to get me fighting fit again for this week. 

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