{"id":69,"date":"2008-11-13T18:51:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T01:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post69"},"modified":"2009-05-19T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T20:00:23","slug":"headache-update-n-stuffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post69","title":{"rendered":"Headache update &#8216;n&#8217; stuffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well helloooooo.<\/p>\n<p>I should be grading the mountains of papers that are facing me right now, but I can&#8217;t make myself do it. End of the 2nd 6 week grading period is tomorrow, and grades are due Tuesday morning. It&#8217;s been a tough period for me. I&#8217;m struggling with getting the kids to be more accountable and responsible for their learning, and I&#8217;m not supposed to penalize their grades or anything if they turn it in late or something like that, which isn&#8217;t doing them any favors.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, so I finally made it to the doctor yesterday. I actually was supposed to go last Monday, but they cancelled my appointment. When they called, they weren&#8217;t too nice about it and it was pretty last minute (my appointment was at 2:45 and they called me earlier that day&#8230; I had work off so I could go&#8230;) I also tried to get in when I was sick (the last time I posted) and figured while I was checking out my cough\/cold issues, they could check out my head too, but they didn&#8217;t want to schedule any appointments past four.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I decided that I didn&#8217;t need to deal with that. I looked more carefully at the doctors that we had access to through Jared&#8217;s insurance, and then looked at their &#8220;recommended&#8221; list and then researched them online. I found one that sounded hopeful, and isn&#8217;t too far from where we live and from the area we&#8217;re hoping to buy a home in in the not to far future.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good decision. I felt like she was very respectful of my concerns and listened, and was really surprised that nobody had taken a serious look at migraines anymore. She said that my symptoms and having headaches every day were fairly classic symptoms of somebody who had not had migraine headaches treated properly. A normal person can take so much noise or triggers that cause a headache. For me, my tolerance has become so low that the smallest things are affecting me right now, or that&#8217;s what she thinks. So we are going to try a preventative treatment with a drug called Topamax. We&#8217;ll see how it goes. Another thing that we may explore in a month when I go back is the WNV that I was worried about earlier. I am also going to call the original doctor that I did a blood test with to see if they tested for Lyme Disease at that time. All of these aren&#8217;t exciting prospects, but I am just happy that I&#8217;m moving along with getting results and having people take this seriously, and not all in my head (ha, ha!).<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, really, I should get started on grading. It&#8217;s taken me way too long to try and make this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well helloooooo. I should be grading the mountains of papers that are facing me right now, but I can&#8217;t make myself do it. End of the 2nd 6 week grading period is tomorrow, and grades are due Tuesday morning. It&#8217;s been a tough period for me. I&#8217;m struggling with getting the kids to be more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}