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Another good day
I had a slight twinge of a headache this morning, but a quick dose of my Rx killed that damnable thing before it could form. The mort irritating thing I have had to deal with is being do throughly tired today. For some unfathomable reason I could not get to sleep last night.
I crawled into bed, sleepy, about my usual time, 11 pm, but I could not get to sleep until past 1am. I dragged today, but still sleepy is better than living with a migraine.
Tonight I got another chapter edited, the final author’s note added to Horseshoe & Hand Grenades, and more ground work laid out for my D&D game, so I am not complaining. I expect to turn H&H over to my sweetie-wife for copyediting on saturday, then once she has finished with it and I have entered to changes, optimistically I am expecting few, it will register for my copyright notice and start formatting for publication. Maybe two or three weeks and it should eb available for sale. I’m still thinking 99 cents.
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. Â 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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sunday Silliness
I’m sure I have a few friends that would enjoy this verbal banter and frivolity. Continue reading
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.
