'i will save this patient'

it's the last of the scraps of days my school system calls a spring break, and i'm not feeling going back to work tomorrow. it's like the usual sunday night feeling, but magnified.

i'm feeling kind of restless and peevish. it's blah outside and i just took a middle-of-the-day bubble bath with the yummy honeysuckle-scented product i got at bath and body works last week (when it was 88 degrees outside). after my bath i pulled on a really old pair of way-too-big jeans that somehow appeared on the top of my clothing pile next to our bed. i'm swimming in them but hitched them up with a belt and am wearing them anyway.
my migraines have been diagnosed as cluster headaches, an uncommon and frankly frustrating ailment as i can't do anything to prevent them. i'm looking forward to being at the end of this present cluster, as "in episodic cluster headache, these attacks occur once or more daily, often at the same times each day, for a period of several weeks, followed by a headache-free period lasting weeks, months, or years." years sounds pretty good to me.

the doctor prescribed duradrin for when the headaches do occur, and it's done pretty well to dull the pain. it also can make me feel alternately spazzy or stoned, neither of which i really mind, and moreoften i embrace and enjoy.

the good doc also sent me for an MRI just to err on the side of caution - i guess to make sure my brain is not going to fall out or something equally devestating. i wasn't nervous about getting it done, but once inside the tube the noises and vibrations freaked me out a bit. the nurses were efficient but not particularly chatty and didn't tell me anything about what was going to happen; i went through some pretty elaborate imaginings that the machine was about to explode and i was going to have to figure out to pull myself out of it and escape.

todd and i got a wii about a month or so ago and all of a sudden i find myself a semi-gamer. i get particularly riveted to trauma center: second opinion and will go for hours. in fact, i would like to be playing it right now but zane is here this week for his break and he and todd are downstairs playing the new marvel game, which they seem to be enjoying despite lukewarm reviews. i must admit that i am somewhat frustrated at not being able to play, but am trying to reign myself in and share nicely, as zane is, after all, eight.