Word of the Week - Malfunction

It's been a difficult week this week. I've really struggled with my health and ended up in hospital in same day emergency care on Tuesday having not been able to shift a migraine for 12 days.

I think this one has been triggered by the constant heat. My preventative medication has reduced my migraines from 15 a month that have required additional medication to only 17 over the past 12 months that have required more than one dose of triptans to treat. That's quite a reduction.

The migraines are so debilitating, whilst I can function, go to work and get on with things, they take so much out of me.

Towards the end of last week I managed work, home, meds, bed and on the weekend I took it really slowly, lots of meds and it went unnoticed as most people were feeling fatigued, slow and over tired with the heat in work. The pain gets held at bay with the medication, all the other parts of the migraine are still there. 

All I've done this week is sleep, get up to eat, manage to either pick up a prescription, walk to the local shop and have a blood test before going back to bed and sleeping for several hours, then sleeping throughout the night. 

I haven't been able to focus on reading or watching the TV and have found it difficult to hold a conversation. Let alone catch up with the reading I had planned.

The hospital meds have taken the pain away, well most of it, but I'm still not functioning. I obviously need the rest both physically and mentally.

The garden was set up on Sunday with the plan that I'd be sitting out in it this week after work, having BBQ's (we ran out of gas. Peter cooked inside) I've been sitting inside, looking out. It's just as pretty with the doors wide open and lovely and cool.

I'd had plans to weed the front garden, but that didn't happen and I didn't let it bother me, the ground was too hard anyway.

I did manage to get some photos uploaded onto Vinted and sold a few items within minutes with a coat heading out the door and off to Melbourne.

I had to cancel all my gym sessions this week and that made me restless, but I lacked the energy to tie my laces.

I managed to watch the England game although I did doze off during the first and the second half as it did look like they were going to malfunction after the 6th minute. After England's first goal I commented with 'TFFT' but I nearly ruptured a vein when they scored the second goal and shortly afterwards took more meds and had an early night.

We had planned a weekend away camping but decided to cancel as I just need some down time, a few lie ins and a chance to chill out and re set.