A Mostly Lost Day

Yesterday morning started out bad a full 8 hours before. We went to bed and I could not get to sleep. Toss and turn, toss and turn - trying not to wake Mel up. At 2:00 a.m. I got up and checked the clock in the living room, went back to bed and told myself that if I was still awake a few minutes later I'd get up and play games on the computer for awhile in hopes that it would put me to sleep (reading has never even made me sleepy, much less put me to sleep). Apparently telling myself that worked because I finally went to sleep.

Only to wake up 4 hours later with a raging migraine. I took some ibuprofen and went back to 'sleep' - or what I call sleep when my head hurts like that. It's more like being in a twilight land. Sometimes I'm aware of what is going on around me, other times I totally block it out. I was aware when Mel got up. At 9 I finally stumbled out of bed, practically in tears, and went to sit on a chair in the living room, holding my head in my hands, eyes closed. Mel massaged my back, neck and head for a few minutes, I took more ibuprofen and went back to bed. By 10:30 I was back in the land of the living, the pain mostly subdued and the world simply gray all around me instead of colored by strange halos surrounding anything that produced or reflected light.

What set it off? Too much chocolate the night before (but oh, it was good!) topped off by a glass of wine a couple or 3 hours before bed. That on top of fighting a headache most of Sunday afternoon. Allergies due to all the burning happening outside and inside of the city and the normal spring pollens, molds and so forth bursting into the atmosphere. I love spring - but spring doesn't always love me. All of this mixed together and I lose a day.

It is so frustrating. I had a lot planned yesterday, but God thought otherwise.

Alys came over to use our computer in the afternoon. The mother board on hers died and it's in the repair shop to see what they can do with it. Ukrainians are very good at fixing computers that Americans tell you to just throw away because it isn't worth the expense or time to fix. The laptop Mel uses is 8 years old and has been to the repair shop 3 or 4 times here. Some of it's idiosyncrasies now drive him nuts, but it still works. A visiting American told Alys to just get a new computer, we told her to try a Ukrainian repair shop. I hope it works for her like it has for us and for Melinda! So, Alys was here for a few hours yesterday afternoon.

Then Lyudmilla came for my Russian lesson. I almost canceled it, but knowing that usually by late afternoon I'm feeling better, I decided not to. We had a nice lesson for about an hour and then - bam. That was it. Not a full migraine again, but what I call a 'silent migraine', where suddenly things start looking gray again and I don't want to open my eyes. We ended the lesson earlier than usual. She could tell, she said, just by looking at me that I wasn't feeling well again.

Dinner, some time listening to a couple sermons via computer while playing a game or just sitting with my eyes closed, and then time for sleep.

Yes, a mostly lost day.

I'm just so glad I'm feeling better today! I woke up this morning and immediately knew "I feel GOOD this morning! Thank you, Father in Heaven!"