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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) candiedheart | |
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A good friend of mine told me to come check out this journal, so here I am! Forgive me for any randomness- I'm currently in the middle of a migraine but need all the help I can get! I have been suffering from migraines since February. Certainly not as long as some of you it seems, but it feels like forever to me. I generally get 1 to 2 migraines a week that range from 2 to 3 days at a time. In the beginning, I was going to the ER what felt like at least once every couple weeks, and seeing my PCP (who is an internist) as well as a neurologist. But now I have no insurance and can really only afford to see my PCP once every couple of months. I was laid off from my job for failure to return to work in April, based on their FMLA policies (12 weeks off only, I think that's pretty standard), and have been on temporary disability since. I tried to apply for Social Security but they denied me because my "medical condition was not expected to last 12 consecutive months" and I "seem to be responding to treatment". I applied in July and got my denial in October. Initially I was diagnosed with Vertigo when I first started getting these migraines, but after several trips to the ER and my PCP, they realized that the Vertigo was a symptom of my migraines. After that diagnosis, I was also diagnosed as clinically depressed- which I'm sure a majority of you would agree is correct since most of us suffer from multiple monthly migraines! Who wouldn't be depressed about being in pain all the time??? I've been on Treximet (my body did not tolerate it at all), Propranolol, I've had morphine shots, toradol shots, a Dilaudid once, topamax, relpax, over-the-counters, maxalt, and am currently on nortriptylin (3 25mg pills a night). I'm going to be working on my disability appeal paperwork- I am bedridden at least three days out of the week and can barely leave the house on the others. Does anyone have any advice on that? I was reading through the tags and it seems that some of you have some experience, and honestly, I'll take any help I can get! I'm so happy that I found this community. It's great knowing we're all not alone. *edit* In my migraine haze, I forgot to put something- I tried to go back to work this week to a new job, and immediately my migraines were a problem, and I've had two since Tuesday. Which is why I'm so anxious about the disability issue. I don't want to have to "use the system" but it seems like that's what I'm going to have to do. I don't really know. Tags: disability
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I know it's the depression and I know the numbness comes and goes and will, with good fortune, fade away one day, but I leave for NYC in eight measly days and I couldn't care less. I don't feel like traveling and being around a bunch of people. Again with the depression because I LOVE to travel and I love being around people. *sigh* I miss the Christmas I used to hold in my heart. Was it my youth that made it so? With age and time, will I never know the pleasures I once knew? Even as an adult, I was able to enjoy the small daily doses of beauty and pleasure, happiness and contentment, around and within me. What happened to that person? I hope she's dormant, resting. I hope the monstrous joy awakens within me again one day soon. But until that dawning, each day is a challenge in several ways. And I often fear I will never meet my self in my mirror again. When I was a kid, I often culled through my parents albums to find music I'd never encounter otherwise at such an age. I loved Doris Day, Gale Storm, Julie London and many big band albums my mother owned. On my dad's side was Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, The Mama's and the Papa's, Santana and many more. They each owned records that I found interesting for one reason or another. Mom also had all of the Barbara Streisand albums. There are two songs I strongly associate with my girlhood. One is from the musical, Oklahoma! The second is the popular, empowering, much-owned-by-Streisand song, Don't Rain on My Parade written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne for the musical, Funny Girl. I don't know why the neighbors never called the police, but I used to belt these songs, and oh so many more, out from my bedroom over and over again. Another song I really loved was Peter, Paul and Mary's, The Wassail Song. I can't find it online to share and my mom's album has been back in her possession since I left home. But the song reminds me of the person I was not all that long ago. It makes me wonder if I'll ever be that person again, or at least mostly like her. I liked her, the me I used to be! I miss her! So, eight days. Seven wishes. Six family members. Five left. Four children. Three songs. Two cats. And one day, I'll make myself well. Here we come a-wassailing Among the leaves so green, Here we come a-wand'ring So fair to be seen. Love and joy come to you, And to you your wassail, too, And God bless you, and send you A Happy New Year, And God send you a Happy New Year. We are not daily beggers That beg from door to door, But we are neighbors' children Whom you have seen before Love and joy come to you, And to you your wassail, too, And God bless you, and send you A Happy New Year, And God send you a Happy New Year. ( the rest... )Tags: family, movies, music, new york, relationships
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migraines
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So my migraine aura continued all through last night and all day today. It's still here now. I've been dizzy and drunk-feeling. At a few points, I felt pretty nauseous. I have a vomit phobia, so this is really, really not my thing. On the upside (sort of), I may have figured out what's triggering them: my ovarian cyst/crazy hormones from my ovarian cyst that was/something related to the pain in my lower right abdomen. My first migraine came within 48 hours of the start of my abdominal pain, and each one seems to happen within a day or two of each re-start of the pain. I didn't realize until I took a look at my calendar. I really am a scientist at heart, I keep track of my symptoms of anything on my calendar, so I know for sure when they started and how much. (If you've taken a psych class, you know how flexible "memory" can be....) Anyone else ever have hormone-related migraines? What was your experience?
Anyhow, I have an appt. with my PCP on Tuesday, and my OBGYN was supposed to call today, but didn't.....maybe tomorrow? Even though it's Saturday? Please? I really hope I can get this solved soon, and I hope it's all because of my eggers that this is happening. (Rather than something more permanent/undefineable.) Some people live their lives with this kind of thing, I don't know how they cope. Honestly, I'm pretty scared. I know I have to keep my chin and my spirits up, and I will try, but at the same time I'm coming to realize how easily I succumb to physical ailments. Tags: migraine & hole in heart
mood:  scared
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b0st0n
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Url: http://www.sethglier.com/
Fresh off the heels of his successful debut album "The Trouble With People" (MPress Records), singer-songwriter Seth Glier is preparing to embark on "The 12 Days of Touring" starting in Boston, MA on Dec 30th and carrying on throughout the northeast for 12 consecutive shows; including dates at The Iron Horse Music Hall, The Rams Head Tavern, The Birchmere, & The Ark.
In the spirit of the holiday season, Glier has teamed up with the Coats for Kids Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing new and "gently used" winter coats to every child in need. "The 12 Days of Touring" will also host as a coat drive for the Coats for Kids Foundation before every show. A representative from Coats for Kids will be set up at each show to collect coats, hats, gloves, scarves & donations and will bring all the collections to a local school system in need.
As a green (environmentally conscious) artist, Glier continues to travel in his hybrid vehicle, promotes fan carpooling, & sells organic merchandise in support of his debut album "The Trouble With People," released November 3rd on MPress Records. Get your copy here or visit www.sethglier.com/store
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Here's a snarky post at Curbed L.A. that reflects on the slump in California real estate values. The house that is its subject is quite a piece of work. It's hard to believe that somebody out there with six million bucks and change burning a hole in their trust fund hasn't snapped it up. I mean, three years ago it would have been gone in a thrombosis heartbeat, wouldn't it? But it only came on the market two years ago, after the market began to collapse, and it has languished ever since. How sad that such a prize should go so long unclaimed! This listing of the house at the real estate web site Redfin gives more information about the building and its neighborhood, including data on how much comparable houses have sold for recently. True, the comparables do not favor the asking price, but this house is, by its seller's own admission, unique! How can the far lower prices garnered by houses of similar size in the same neighborhood be of any significance when this house is truly without peer? You have never seen anything like this before, proclaims the seller's own web site, and it's true! This property is indeed "...so UNIQUE that there is no known architectural classification for its style." I have been unable to think of a name for the style myself, though I have pondered long, believing as I do that such an edifice deserves a terse yet faithfully descriptive term. Cosmopolitan Provincial? ConTemporary Echclectic? Glam, Slam, Thank You Ma'am? I've considered and discarded each of these as being hopelessly inadequate to the task. But perhaps it is futile to attempt to give a mere architectural appellation to a house that has, oh wonder, "...the MOTIFS OF ETERNITY AND INFINITY in its interior and exterior...." However, on perusing the photographs of it, I do see one glaring fault in the design, and it may be this which has prevented the house from finding a willing buyer. The kitchen counter-tops are of white tile! Had the seller hired a knowledgeable real estate agent, rather than attempting to market the house sans the aid of a professional, said professional's advise would doubtlessly have been to slap some nice granite on those puppies. I think that, should this be done, the house would be sold by the end of the week. High-end, solid-surface counter-tops are a must in today's tough market! By the way, one of the commenters at the L.A. Curbed post says that the seller of the house is this lady. Do read some of her poems. I think they reveal a great deal about the mind behind this remarkable dwelling. Perhaps one of my readers, having devoured a few of these verses, will be inspired to purchase the "Little Castle" with some of the money they've made from blogging. Not a few of you, I believe, have permanent LJ accounts and, if you lack ready cash due to the stresses and strains of the current economy, you could easily borrow a few million against so valuable an asset. I'd buy the place myself but, dude, how could I possibly leave Paradise? Or go to Glendale? Especially with, you know, all the restraining orders?
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