Aphrodite Shawl
The last migraine really knocked me for six! Took a good 10 days until the brain was functioning well enough for me to do any coding work. So I crocheted instead.
I’d been eyeing up the Aphrodite/Pineapple Shawl for a while. Plus I made a Sunbeam 100% cotton triangular shawl last year that, whilst it was pretty enough, wasn’t really “me”. Triangular shawls never stay on the shoulders as well as a 3/4 circular shawl and I get fed up of dragging them back up every few minutes.
K’s Tummy Pain
Last October, K had appendicitis. A real Sunday morning 5am ambulance thing. Thankfully nothing ruptured, the surgery was straightforward, the hospital great and he was back home again after a few days.
He’d recovered enough for us to spend a few days in Ireland in early November and was back at school shortly afterwards. But, in late November, he began complaining of stomach pain across his lower abdomen. Thinking that this was a combination of post-surgery healing, perhaps some pulled muscles and maybe a little bit of attention-seeking, we kept telling him that we’d review the situation after Christmas.
It Ain’t Flu – It’s A Migraine!
I’ve finally figured out the reason for the repeated flu-like episodes. They’re Migraines From Hell! And not one medic managed to put 2 and 2 together and figure that that the “flu” that starts with the mother of all head & neck pain (headache is far too mild a word for it) in someone with a 40 year history of migraines justmight suggest particularly severe migraine attacks.
