Swiss cheese brain update 2/11/08
Not a bad day again yesterday. A bit of a headache, but mainly headache free. This morning though I woke up with the typical IIH morning headache, which panicked me a bit, though that may have been because I slept in late (10.30! It’s almost unheard of for me to sleep that late unless I’m ill!). It’s worn off now, which is good, but the damned abdominal pains have been driving me mad this morning. I’ve resorted to upping the painkillers at the moment, though it’s not making much difference so far.
It doesn’t help though that my back has decided to not play nice today, and is having one of it’s days when the slightest movement either sets off sciatic pain, or quite literally gives me a pain in the arse – the nasty coccyx pain I get when either something in my back’s shifted due to the spina bifida or my LP shunt pressing on something. Hopefully once the painkillers I’ve just had kick in, it’ll either feel a lot better or I’ll be floating around on the ceiling and not care. LOL!
I’ve developed a new game in addition to the picking the bits of assorted gunk out of hair one though, and that’s guessing where the next pain’s going to pop up. I did have a shower this morning though and washed my hair for the first time, so at least most of the loose bits of gunk are gone now, and the rest of it’s not greasy and horrible. I was very careful washing that bit though, and didn’t mess with that part too much. I daren’t risk blowing it dry yet or putting anything on it, so I’ve just left it. At least it’s clean though. From experience, it’s going to be a few weeks before I’ll feel ready to put anything on it, and next time I have my hair cut I’ll have to warn my hairdresser to be very careful around there. It’s not quite so bad as the last revision I had though, because he hasn’t touched the reservoir/valve, so I haven’t got the swelling all around that area – it’s literally just the incision to get at the burr hole to get at the ventricular catheter.
Fingers crossed those painkillers work.
