Author Archives: Bob Evans

Glorious Day!

So I saw my headache doctor today. (To be pedantic, I saw the Physician’s Assistant, but she is sharp and on the ball so I am happy with her work.) The chain migraine were simply unbearable and growing in strength. Soon I would have been missing work at my day job, you know, the one that actually pays the bills.  So I arranged for a few hours off this morning and went for help.

Help I got.

I am current taking three medications to break the wide swath of inflammation that is apparently marching across my the surface of my brain as Nazis did across Europe. One pill combines two medications into a horse pill of operatic size, then there is another medication that I took a lot of today, I will take less on each day that follows until I am taking none by Monday.

This combination is working because for most of today I have been pain free. Of it is glorious to be back. Now, I am tired, my sleep has been disturbed, but man I feel so much better.

Tonight I actually got editing done on Love & Loyalty, a new chapter fully corrected and ready for placement in the final novel. I got more work done on Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, that should be ready for my sweetie-wifes cool corrections by the weekend. AND I got some cool idea put into place for my D&D (3.5 edition) game for this weekend.

All in all, as Boromir is wont to say in extended versions of the films, “Today is a good day.”

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Not my best week

As you can see from the sheer number of Headache Log postings I have done, it’s been a pretty bad week for me and migraines. In fact in the last week I had one, just one, day where I did NOT have a headache, Saturday. Every other day has been from a mild headache to nasty nasty pain that has sent me to bed by 8:30.

Tomorrow I see the doctor again. I went two weeks without a headache and now I can’t seem to go two days. This has seriously sucked.

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Headache Log

Awoke feeling off, but without headache,
By 9 am a headache began developing. By 10 am I was in a migraine with photophobia. The rx had been depleted so it went untreated until 6 pm when I got a refill of Rx and took a full dose.

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Headache Log

Headache started about 9 am but it felt like eyestrain so I did not take rx. About 10:30 started to develop photophobia took 1/2 dose rx, headache moderated.

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Headache Log

04/18/2011

Awoke feeling so-so. Went to work by 9am my headache had returned, but again I did not have any of the rx with me. Headache became severe, but I worked though the day.
When I got home took 1/2 a dose, about 5:45.
Headache again did not moderate, second 1/2 dose about 8:00.

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Headache Log

04/17/2011
Went to the zoo with my wife and started having headache issues my mid day. Did not have any Rx with me and I was unable to does until late afternoon about 4:30. Headache did not moderate and I re-dosed about 2 hours later. Headache again did not moderate and I went to bed at 8:30.

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Book Cover

So I set today aside to work on the cover for my anthology Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. This project is moving along very nicely and I expect to have a copy turned over to my sweetie-wife for proofreading soon, possibly by the end of next week. After that it’s formatting issues, filing for the copyright registrations, and submitting it to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords for ebook distribution.

My honest expectation is that aside from a handful of copies I really will not sell many, but even just a few means that these stories are being read and that is the purpose. For a story that is not being read is a sad thing indeed.

Now, here is the cover as it currently stands. Let me know what you think.

 

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Still Busy

Today I visited my headache doctor, met with his physician’s assistant and we went over my progress. It’s been over two weeks without any headaches and that has made me really happy.

I have continued to work on Love and Loyalty. I will certainly be re-ordering the events of the novel based on the feedback from my writers group, but I still hope to have a beta copy ready in a couple of months.

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades is coming along. I’m learning how to operate photoshop. I have plans for combining elements from a couple of NASA photos to create my no-cost cover. This experiment in self-publishing is going to end up costing nothing but time.

 

I watched part of movie Sunday night, but grew too tired to finish it. That is a shame cause 1941 is one of my favorite films.

 

 

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