Wordless Wednesdays

Meme

The rules: Only use one word answers.

1. Where is your cell phone? Pocket
2. Your significant other? Frankie
3. Your hair? Shoulders
4. Your mother? Artist
5. Your father? Passed
6. Your favorite thing? Napping
7. Your dream last night? None?
8. Your favorite drink? Wine!
9. Your dream/goal?retirement
10. The room you're in? office
11. Your hobby? volunteer
12. Your fear? Alone
13. Where do you want to be in six years? safe
14. What you're not? outspoken
15. Muffins? blueberry
16. One of your wish list items? Boobs
17. Where you grew up? Kentucky
18. The last thing you did? Fax
19. What are you wearing? Black
20. Favorite gadget? iPod
21. Your pets? Chihuahuas
22. Your computer? awesome
23. Your mood? Grumpy
24. Missing someone? babies
25. Your car? Thirsty
26. Something you're not wearing? skirt?
27. Favorite store? Alloy
28. Like someone? most
29. Your favorite color? Pink
30. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday
31. Last time you cried? days?

Oh my aching head...

So I am sitting at work and have one of the worst headache's i think I have ever had. It is Friday and although I start work at 6am I don't get off until 3, I am just wishing I could lay down and close my eyes to the pain. I have had said headache for going on 5 full days. I was taking Topomax(which I hated) and it wasn't helping so I stopped taking it and do not miss the forgetfulness, tingling fingers/toes, lack of sex drive or the stuttering that it caused. I have a prescription for Maxalt but when I take them I feel like my eyeballs will explode from all the pressure in my skull.

I have been battling Migraines for about 2.5 years now and have tried many different prescription drugs, none of them seem to help much, if they do it is usually only for the first couple of weeks then back to never ending pain...ARGH. I have been to see my regular doctor and have gotten Toridal shots that seemed to help until they did a blood test and realized that my Liver was not happy (increased cretin(sp) levels). I am at the end of my rope, I am snappy with the kids and am sure that I am driving my husband up the wall with all of my demands for peace and quiet.

Does anyone have a holistic approach that they can suggest, I am sick of pumping my body full of useless pharmaceuticals that never seem to solve the problem only cause more.....HELP ME before I completely lose my mind(or what little I have left!!!)

 

Wordless Wednesday

Fantastic Story

I read this today on "Fantastagirl's" blog and it brought tears to my eyes.....I hope she doesn't mind that I stole it. I think there is a definite lesson to be learned here.

 

 

The story of the butterfly

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.
One day a small opening appeared.
He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours
as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole.
Then it stopped, as if it couldn't go further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and
snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon.
The butterfly emerged easily but
it had a swollen body and shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch it,
expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge
and expand enough to support the body,
Neither happened!
In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life
crawling around.
It was never able to fly.

What the man in his kindness
and haste did not understand:
The restricting cocoon and the struggle
required by the butterfly to get through the opening
was a way of forcing the fluid from the body
into the wings so that it would be ready
for flight once that was achieved.

Sometimes struggles are exactly
what we need in our lives.
Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us.
We will not be as strong as we could have been
and we would never fly.

 

Hmmm.....

It will be my birthday on Sunday, 35 years old....I am having issues.

Quote of the week.....

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)