The weekend

I think that Doc’s classic cluster cycle has returned. Twice daily bad cluster attacks.

I’m convinced that Depakote he’s taking isn’t doing jack shit. It may even be making it worse. It’s definitely making the headaches different, and with these things, sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.

Friday (his birthday) was simply awful in terms of pain. Saturday was better; he had a short attack in the afternoon but only hovered around a 1 or 1.5 for the rest of the day. This was good because Kathryn threw him a surprise party Saturday night at her house (I know, how sweet!!), so I’m glad he was able to go and participate and not be in too much pain. I had a great deal of fun. I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time. The dinner was awesome too, courtesy of Brett’s fantastic culinary skills: homemade burgers, homemade fries and onion rings, roasted pepper salad, and ice cream with blueberry-pomegranete sauce. Humor occasionally regressed to the 5th grade level, which I think is totally necessary for adults sometimes!!

Yesterday he woke up with annoying level 1 or 1.5 pain, and tried sleeping it off, despite this never having worked before. He proved, once and for all, that sleeping does not fix the pain, and it usually in fact makes it worse. He finally got up around 3 p.m. Later in the evening we went to Trinity Hall to play trivia again like last Sunday. I really like having a regularly scheduled activity with friends. I think that next week Doc and I and Kathryn and hopefully Brittney and Chris, and perhaps some other people (?) will form our own team. We did kind of kick ass in the “computers” category, getting 10 out of 10 answers correct.