Fucking Migraines.

After some actual productive Wikipedia-ing, I'm pretty convinced that the headaches that have been bothering me for the past few years are migraines.

And I had a doozy of one on Christmas Day. Amy and I went to her cousin's in Lake Oswego for dinner, and it started on the drive down, and got worse as we approached his house.

I was looking for a place to vomit in the bushes, which I thought really wasn't a smart thing to do in Lake Oswego. Downtown Portland, yeah....there's plenty of bums who spew bodily fluids on the sidewalk, but the neighbors would definitely not be happy about some guy from NE Portland hurling in their front yard.

Fortunately, I was able to pull it together enough to tell the host what was happening, and since he was a doctor, he knew what it was, and gave me a hot compress to ease the pain. His sister-in-law was a massage therapist, and gave me a facial massage, including the nerves running from my nose to the ear (where a lot of the pain was).

It didn't go away completely, but was alleviated enough for me to enjoy the gathering.

Year in Review Post!

The first sentence or two of the first post of each month for this year, except for a December 1 friends-only post and a July 1 image meme.

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