Doc’s feeling a bit better

Doc’s been feeling somewhat decent the past few days… relatively speaking, of course. He’s woken up without much of a headache, and that is a nice change. It usually hits later in the day but I don’t think it’s to the degree that it has been recently.

He says that the Depakote is doing really weird things to him. Before, the headaches would come in long waves, kind of like a sine wave that went really high in intensity for a while, then would dip somewhat lower for a while. Now the headaches come in shorter bursts that don’t get quite as high or as low. Both amplitude-modulated and frequency-modulated. Also, it’s like the cluster and the migraine and the Depakote are in a 3-way knock-down drag-out fight inside his skull, and one of them usually will have dominance for a short period before one of the other ones takes over for a while.

He has to gradually build up to taking 4 pills a day. Tonight he starts on week #3 (3 pills). Should be interesting to see what happens when he’s on a full dose.

Saturday we had a good day. Spent a lot of quality time together, I went to Molly’s wedding shower, we went out to the movies to see “Stardust,” which was quite surprisingly good and then later watched “The Constant Gardener” from Netflix, and we ate takeout for dinner.

At Molly’s shower, I saw a girl that I remembered from high school but haven’t seen since 1990. She and I had a class together and we sat together every day and goofed off the entire year. She was a year younger than me but she was one of the “cool kids,” the ones who occasionally cut class, probably smoked and drank, and generally had a much more developed social life than I did. But she hung out with me in class, talked to me, seemed to like or at least accept me. I definitely remembered her for that, and occasionally wondered what happened to her. I didn’t know that Molly was friends with her younger sister. She now has three kids, including a 2 week old baby girl and a 3 year old boy who knows all the words to Johnny Cash’s entire repertoire, and is as funny as ever. She said that she remembers me, although I’m not sure that’s actually true. She may have said it just to be nice. It doesn’t matter, though, I had a good time talking to her his weekend.

Today I began lunchtime yoga classes. I haven’t taken yoga in a year and a half, because I was lazy, training for a marathon, and really liked going out to eat every day instead. But I’m changing my ways now. I hope to go to yoga at least 2 out of 3 times per week, endeavor to cut back on my seriously out of control diet-Coke habit (by not drinking any before lunch time, for starters), and to continue my healthy diet changes. I’ve already stopped eating all deli meat (turkey, ham, roast beef, etc) and have cut way down on my meat consumption in general. I’m trying to eat more fruit (breakfast smoothies help a lot with that). More changes probably to come, but I think these are good goals to start with.

Anway, after yoga I felt fantastic all afternoon, as I usually do when I get those endorphins going in my bloodstream. I am certain that tomorrow I will barely be able to move! But I should be used to it after a week or so, I think.