**Warning Whining ahead!**
Nov. 22nd, 2005 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadecatOkay, this just isn't fair. Yesterday, head pounding, left brain/neck hurting agony. It sucked. Took lovely Z-Med. Mid afternoon... no pain. It was beautiful! I practically bounced on my way home. Yay no pain! Took a nap, no pain, talked on the phone to the Hubby and then my momma, no pain!
Mid-morning... guess who's back?! It's NOT FAIR! *whinewhimpermoancomplain*
On the plus side- I have discovered that my insurance has Zomig listed as a Tier 2 med (which makes it affordable- unlike Tier 3 which is $30 a month).
On the down- I think I must blame the Alesse. Just switched brands of BCP in October (which caused OH so much fun and worry a few weeks later...) from Desgen to Alesse. I switched not because I didn't like Desogen but because it was Tier 3 (again with the $30 a month) and the generic Alesse was Tier 1 (or $7 a month). I LIKED $7 a month for BCP.
However, the side effects for Alesse- and a warning on one of the websites- says that it can trigger migraines. The warning states that it can cause headaches and make a non-migraine headache worsen into a migraine and should that happen you should cease taking the pill.
This would mean finding a new pill and that's a pain, especially as I'm on my placebo week. It also means dealing with my doctor's office- which can be a pain. Though I was floored today- I called this morning asking if I could get a scrip for Zomig and they called back in under an HOUR! The SAME day! Whoa. It was also an Angie not a Heidi. This may be the critical difference. So now I have Zomig waiting for me, and I have to decide if I'm going to renew the Alesse or what.
Bleck.
Thanksgiving is going to be weird this year. For the first time I won't be spending it with either my family or the DH's. See, he has to work at 4 pm on Thanksgiving day. Thus nixing the plan to go to his folk's house. We have an alternating year plan and this year was his family's turn, next year would be mine. However, my family is almost 2 hours away and his family IS 2 hours away. So that just won't work.
But, work is giving each employee a free pre-cooked turkey. So.... yeah. We will have a mini-Thanksgiving at home with just the two of us before he goes to work. This will be weird for me- I will be all by myself the evening of one of my favorite holidays.
You see growing up Thanksgiving was always at my parents, and always with my dad's extended family. It meant a lot of noise, confusion, people, talking and lots and lots of laughter. That's the one thing I really remember about Thanksgiving- the laughter. Made it one of my favorite family times. Christmas was usually about immediate family- seeing extended family later. Thanksgiving was about a ton of people and food. Thanksgiving meant turkey (of course), nuclear waste in the form of a particular pickle spread, Hamilton's Bakery rolls (that Aunt K would always bring) and again- laughter.
The day spent with the DH's family is a smaller group, but still with a lot of love and laughter in the room. So while it's much quieter than I'm used to- it's still very nice.
So the fact that after the DH goes to work it'll just be me is kind of... strange and disheartening. I'd talked to my mom about driving up there after he goes to work- to see my grandpa and older brother J and his wife. But when I talked to her last night she mentioned that they were eating really early, and grandpa may not last long (as in upright- he had a bad fall last January and 91 year old men don't heal so quickly. ;) He's worlds better but still spends a lot of time in bed mostly reclined) and she mentioned the weather is supposed to be bad... and maybe I should rethink. Which isn't to say she wouldn't want me to drive up there- but it's a long drive and given that I might not see the people I wanted to, and with bad weather... So yeah, I am having to rethink the idea.
We'll see. Maybe I will be able to put the time to good use. Perhaps even get some writing done.
Mid-morning... guess who's back?! It's NOT FAIR! *whinewhimpermoancomplain*
On the plus side- I have discovered that my insurance has Zomig listed as a Tier 2 med (which makes it affordable- unlike Tier 3 which is $30 a month).
On the down- I think I must blame the Alesse. Just switched brands of BCP in October (which caused OH so much fun and worry a few weeks later...) from Desgen to Alesse. I switched not because I didn't like Desogen but because it was Tier 3 (again with the $30 a month) and the generic Alesse was Tier 1 (or $7 a month). I LIKED $7 a month for BCP.
However, the side effects for Alesse- and a warning on one of the websites- says that it can trigger migraines. The warning states that it can cause headaches and make a non-migraine headache worsen into a migraine and should that happen you should cease taking the pill.
This would mean finding a new pill and that's a pain, especially as I'm on my placebo week. It also means dealing with my doctor's office- which can be a pain. Though I was floored today- I called this morning asking if I could get a scrip for Zomig and they called back in under an HOUR! The SAME day! Whoa. It was also an Angie not a Heidi. This may be the critical difference. So now I have Zomig waiting for me, and I have to decide if I'm going to renew the Alesse or what.
Bleck.
Thanksgiving is going to be weird this year. For the first time I won't be spending it with either my family or the DH's. See, he has to work at 4 pm on Thanksgiving day. Thus nixing the plan to go to his folk's house. We have an alternating year plan and this year was his family's turn, next year would be mine. However, my family is almost 2 hours away and his family IS 2 hours away. So that just won't work.
But, work is giving each employee a free pre-cooked turkey. So.... yeah. We will have a mini-Thanksgiving at home with just the two of us before he goes to work. This will be weird for me- I will be all by myself the evening of one of my favorite holidays.
You see growing up Thanksgiving was always at my parents, and always with my dad's extended family. It meant a lot of noise, confusion, people, talking and lots and lots of laughter. That's the one thing I really remember about Thanksgiving- the laughter. Made it one of my favorite family times. Christmas was usually about immediate family- seeing extended family later. Thanksgiving was about a ton of people and food. Thanksgiving meant turkey (of course), nuclear waste in the form of a particular pickle spread, Hamilton's Bakery rolls (that Aunt K would always bring) and again- laughter.
The day spent with the DH's family is a smaller group, but still with a lot of love and laughter in the room. So while it's much quieter than I'm used to- it's still very nice.
So the fact that after the DH goes to work it'll just be me is kind of... strange and disheartening. I'd talked to my mom about driving up there after he goes to work- to see my grandpa and older brother J and his wife. But when I talked to her last night she mentioned that they were eating really early, and grandpa may not last long (as in upright- he had a bad fall last January and 91 year old men don't heal so quickly. ;) He's worlds better but still spends a lot of time in bed mostly reclined) and she mentioned the weather is supposed to be bad... and maybe I should rethink. Which isn't to say she wouldn't want me to drive up there- but it's a long drive and given that I might not see the people I wanted to, and with bad weather... So yeah, I am having to rethink the idea.
We'll see. Maybe I will be able to put the time to good use. Perhaps even get some writing done.
