Day 2

Day 2. 7:04p. Pain Level: 10+

Let me start by saying that I am feeling much better right now than I was about 12 hours ago and my pain level is down to about a 7. This has been one hell of a 16 hours.

Yesterday afternoon wasn't too awfully bad and I went to my mom's house to celebrate my birthday with my family. I guess looking back being asleep and not able to raise my head for them to sing me happy birthday was a little sad. But I did put my big girl face on and suffered through the pain because I didn't want my grandma to know I was hurting. She worries about everything and she makes herself sick over it, like so sick she won't eat, so I didn't need that to think about too. I did find out that my aunt has been getting migraines about 3 times a year for the last 20 years so that is a HUGE discovery for me. There is a connection in my family that I never new about.

So anyway the day was pretty good and I got some great gifts. One of my good friends and neighbors even came down and hung out with me when I got home which made me really happy. The fact that my friends are being supportive means so much to me because I know sitting in a dark house with the tv down low isn't the most fun thing to do the night before Labor Day.

Well, at about 2:45a I woke up with an upset tummy. Not horrible, just kinda turning, you know? Or at least that's what I thought. So I thought it was from the migraine and I took a Zofran and rolled over to go back to bed. Not even 10 min later I woke up and knew that this was not my normal nausea. I booked it to the bathroom where I stayed until 2p today. I vomited every 2-5 min, no shit. And not just dry heaving. It was straight up bile. Well at first it was red velvet cake, right gross I know. So I was so tired that for the first 2 hours I thought I was still vomiting up cake when I realized it was blood. Not a ton of blood, but enough to be alarmed. Then the diarrhea started, can't believe I'm even typing this. I took 2 phenergan suppositories which didn't help at all.

Finally around 2 Chris decided to take me to the minor emergency because we thought I either had the flu or food poisoning (don't tell my mom, she cooked dinner). Luckliy it was neither. I have the damn stomach bug that's going around. Good news is that it's bacterial so it can be treated with antibiotics, bad news, vomiting and direah for 12 straight hours makes migraines a million times worse. And the PA told me that I could only take Tylenol since my stomach is so upset which my neurologist told me I can't take. So that means I get NOTHING AT ALL! I have to watch closely to make sure that I'm not vomiting any more blood and if I do go straight to the ER.

Last night I kept thinking "What if I'm going through drug withdrawals from my Frova and Zomig". Hahaha...that would have been awful!