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Traveling w/ my achilles heel(s)

Presently, it so happens, a friend and I are in Santa Cruz, CA house sitting for my son for a few days, exchanging the cold drizzle of northwest Washington for crisp, sunny, Santa Cruz fall days.  This trip has been especially trying because not only am I dealing with daily migraines, I am also hobbling around, literally, with constant pain of achilles tendonitis.  But I refuse to stay home even though it would, no doubt, have been easier.

It takes a huge amount of determination sometimes to just go ahead, make plans, and carry them out even if I’m not feeling at all sure I can actually pull it off.  But I have, once again, set forth, in spite of everything.  And I’m not sorry. Continue reading “Traveling w/ my achilles heel(s)”

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Grateful for what i SEE

These last 10 days have been verrrrry difficult.  I am on a, so called, drug holiday from methergine, which comes around every 6 months like clockwork.  I’ve been through this before, but this time I am also taking Venlafaxine (generic for Effexor) which has not been a good medication for me.  I’ve had a paradoxical reaction, which means for me it has heightened my anxiety and hypersensitivity to all sorts of perceived negative stimuli.  This was all somehow offset somewhat by the methergine.  Since I discontinued the methergine, I have been unable to sleep more than 4 or 5 hours a night.  I am strung out on the one hand, like I’ve had too much coffee, and drooping from fatigue on the other.  Needless to say, this is driving me CRAZY!!!! Continue reading “Grateful for what i SEE”