Wow, how do you migraine suffers live, day to day, knowing that at any second a brief glimpse of something might send you into spasms, black out, and need to spend years learning to read and write again?
The stress of knowing that could happen would, gosh, I dunno, give me a migraine or something.
That’s not “standard” for migraine sufferers. That is medically specific to Boo because she has a history of strokes.
Yup, Tah’s right. There are certain things I have to avoid to minimise the chances of it happening again, but I know that it’s a minimisation, rather than a prevention. It’s very, very scary, to be honest.
You probably should have played the hero card as soon as you were dealt it. They tend to expire.
I think I was about 11, at the time “playing the hero card” would have meant having your own rocket ship and fighting space tyrants.
I myself regret not making more of a drunken train journey where in defence of a nice girl from my class we met I slew a ferocious and terrible bumble-bee that was terrorising the carriage.
Once, at work, I saw a whole room terrorized by a single wasp. After watching them cringe away and flap at it like a troop of bad Graham Norton imitators for about 5 minutes, I went over, raised my hand under it so that it would settle, blew gently on it to make it stay, walked to a window, opened it and calmly deposited it on the ledge outside (apart from mosquitoes, I don’t kill bugs if I can help it). The lone female sandwich student was well impressed, but I was married by then.
And what the hell kind of insult is ‘moose’?
A very old and childish one of (then) un-topped cruelty. It was to call someone ugly, stupid, smelly, fat and more in one go. And to a twelve-year-old asking someone he respects and admires to be his first serious girlfriend it is utterly, utterly crushing. ( )
That’s not “standard” for migraine sufferers. That is medically specific to Boo because she has a history of strokes.
Yup, Tah’s right. There are certain things I have to avoid to minimise the chances of it happening again, but I know that it’s a minimisation, rather than a prevention. It’s very, very scary, to be honest.
About 1 in 20 people get migraines, and all of them are at risk of migrainous stroke, but the individual probability is low. Once you’ve had one though, the chances of having another with a subsequent migraine increase dramatically. It’s principally caused by a restriction of blood flow around the brain, called brain ischaemia, and the best treatment is still not to have one[*].
I suffer from migraines too (as does my mother) and part of the information I was given on them warned me to watch for the symptoms of stroke after each incident, which is not what you want to read when you were expecting the doctor to prescribe you some stronger painkillers. For once, I really wished he had said “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.“
[* Doctors used to prescribe either strong aspirin or mild barbiturates but I don’t think they still do.]
You probably should have played the hero card as soon as you were dealt it. They tend to expire.
I think I was about 11, at the time “playing the hero card” would have meant having your own rocket ship and fighting space tyrants.
I myself regret not making more of a drunken train journey where in defence of a nice girl from my class we met I slew a ferocious and terrible bumble-bee that was terrorising the carriage.
Once, at work, I saw a whole room terrorized by a single wasp. After watching them cringe away and flap at it like a troop of bad Graham Norton imitators for about 5 minutes, I went over, raised my hand under it so that it would settle, blew gently on it to make it stay, walked to a window, opened it and calmly deposited it on the ledge outside (apart from mosquitoes, I don’t kill bugs if I can help it). The lone female sandwich student was well impressed, but I was married by then.
And what the hell kind of insult is ‘moose’?
A very old and childish one of (then) un-topped cruelty. It was to call someone ugly, stupid, smelly, fat and more in one go. And to a twelve-year-old asking someone he respects and admires to be his first serious girlfriend it is utterly, utterly crushing. ( )
If you’d gotten the wasp with a spaceship there wouldn’t be a dry pair of knickers in the place.
And ‘moose’ sounds like a very childish insult. Not a very good one either.
About 1 in 20 people get migraines, and all of them are at risk of migrainous stroke, but the individual probability is low. Once you’ve had one though, the chances of having another with a subsequent migraine increase dramatically. It’s principally caused by a restriction of blood flow around the brain, called brain ischaemia, and the best treatment is still not to have one[*].
I suffer from migraines too (as does my mother) and part of the information I was given on them warned me to watch for the symptoms of stroke after each incident, which is not what you want to read when you were expecting the doctor to prescribe you some stronger painkillers. For once, I really wished he had said “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.“
[* Doctors used to prescribe either strong aspirin or mild barbiturates but I don’t think they still do.]
Yup. It seems, sadly, that all the family migraine traits on both sides have funnelled down to me, leading to my having my first stroke at 13. Several other members of my family have experienced temporary neurological side-effects after migraines.
*sigh*
And that’s why this sort of prank upsets me so much, and why I react so emotionally to it.
On the positive side Boo and David, you are at the very least ‘aware’ of your condition and take precautions. What makes the prank here so heinous is that there are too many folks who, until viewing the site, were unaware of any kind of problem and may view it just to ‘see’ what the raucous is about. That’s a very real and present danger to the unwary.
If you’d gotten the wasp with a spaceship there wouldn’t be a dry pair of knickers in the place.
Ah, that’s where I was going wrong! I was trying for the “so one with nature, even bees and wasps adore him” effect when I should have gone down the “I am Flash-Fry Gordon, see me toast this hideous creature with my ‘lightswatter’!“ route.
If you’d gotten the wasp with a spaceship there wouldn’t be a dry pair of knickers in the place.
Ah, that’s where I was going wrong! I was trying for the “so one with nature, even bees and wasps adore him” effect when I should have gone down the “I am Flash-Fry Gordon, see me toast this hideous creature with my ‘lightswatter’!“ route.
That would have been pretty awesome you must admit.
Although you’d have to be a good shot. Otherwise you might miss the wasp and swat somebody’s arm off.
On the positive side Boo and David, you are at the very least ‘aware’ of your condition and take precautions. What makes the prank here so heinous is that there are too many folks who, until viewing the site, were unaware of any kind of problem and may view it just to ‘see’ what the raucous is about. That’s a very real and present danger to the unwary.
Several other members of my family have experienced temporary neurological side-effects after migraines.
*sigh*
And that’s why this sort of prank upsets me so much, and why I react so emotionally to it.
Yeah, I try to aviod likely triggers, especially since I started having (as well as the migraines) blind spots in my vision, flashes of light and periods of dysphasia. I’ve been on medicaton to control it since then.
I very rarely get tunnel vision followed by a blinding migraine, but I seriously suspect that’s more related to blood sugar than any external triggers. I haven’t had an episode in probably 12 years, though. *crosses fingers*
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