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Day 638: One Way To Take Care Of Migraines

Give yourself a permanent one.

While visiting family and friends up north this weekend, I slipped and fell (with a momentary, split-second blackout) at a friend’s housewarming party. Unfortunately, the last part of the fall involved the back of my head making strong contact with a wall and the subsequent raining of hot tea all over the dupatta of my nice off-white Indian outfit. And, no, I was not involved in a battle dance-off at the time.

Horror of horrors: My eyes and head cannot handle computer exposure for more than 10 minutes at a time. The prefrontal cortex has decreed that the current happiness of Maitri will be maximized by lying in bed, sipping water and watching Law&Order reruns until the cows come home.

Before this blog’s regularly-scheduled programming is postponed to some time later this week, here’s something to think about: On this Memorial Day, I’d rather be in bed with an aching skull than have its contents spilled on the floor of a land where the situation has gone from bad to worst. That blood, gore and misery is on all of our hands, not just a few, and no amount of head injury and vapid entertainment will let me forget it.

18 comments… add one
  • Joel May 28, 2007, 6:42 PM

    Maitri, my God, are you going to be all right? A head injury with L.O.C. is serious (as you well know). You’re in good spirits, which is a blessing, but are you sure there’s no permanent damage. Please be all right. That mind of yours is too valuable to be consigned to soft rooms and coloring books.

  • racymind May 28, 2007, 6:55 PM

    Peaceful thoughts for you and the world.

    Curl up with The Great Shark Hunt if you can read without making it worse.

  • liprap May 28, 2007, 8:00 PM

    Oy vey iz mir!

    Feel better, madam. Take care of that head of yours. Joel is right. The LAST thing that is needed is for you to be wheeled around on a dolly or something…

  • Ray May 28, 2007, 9:33 PM

    Jeezus, lady, be careful. We need you with your wits about you.

    Did they do a cat scan?

    You can borrow our cat, if you want.

  • mominem May 28, 2007, 9:43 PM

    1)Take it easy.
    2)Make sure nothing serious is amiss.
    3)Get well.

  • Maitri May 29, 2007, 7:56 AM

    Thanks for the nice sentiments, guys. My brother is certain of absence of concussion, but if the headache keeps up, I’m going to see a doctor, i.e one here in town and who is not a family member. Lots of sleep, fluids and a bunch of Tylenol should see me much better by the end of the week.

    Although … a cat, crayons and a coloring book sound awful relaxing right now.

  • liprap May 29, 2007, 9:02 AM

    Remind me to take you to the little guy’s preschool, then! ;-)

  • Editor B May 29, 2007, 9:06 AM

    Get well soon.

  • Joel May 29, 2007, 9:36 AM

    Glad to hear that you’re going to be OK. I took several blows to the head as a child, and I turned out all right penguin. I’m perfectly fine penguin, except that I sometimes insert the word “penguin” into my discoure.

    Feel better soon. Penguin.

  • Varg May 29, 2007, 9:54 AM

    Doesn’t the Law & Order thunk-thunk sound make it worse?

    Get well soon. :)

  • dambala May 29, 2007, 12:57 PM

    OUCH!!!

    Let me know if you suddenly have the ability to start moving things with your mind, reading peoples thoughts, or successfully pick KENO numbers.

    Hope you get better soon.

  • Maitri May 29, 2007, 1:03 PM

    Joel, if anything, the header has decreased my agitation and use of the F word. (I know, who am I and what have I done with the real Maitri?)

    Say, dambala, I’m going to be awfully disappointed if I don’t walk away from this with some ESP or psychokinetic abilities. Then again, I’ll be elated to go on with my life sans permanent head injury and vision damage, too.

  • Joel May 29, 2007, 2:28 PM

    Wow, sounds like I should hit my head, then. I’m agitated most of the time, and I’m the worst frackin’ pottymouth I know.

    Glad to hear that head trauma hasn’t dampened your irrepressible spirit.

    P.S.: Penguin.

  • Karen May 29, 2007, 3:04 PM

    There is no place like home..

  • spocko May 30, 2007, 12:27 AM

    Just stopping by to see if your head feels better.
    Take two aspirins and blog in the morning.
    LLAP
    Spocko

  • E.J. May 30, 2007, 1:33 AM

    Ouch. I’m still paying for my E.R. field trip I took after falling out cold onto my friend’s marble floor — the day before I turned 30. I still maintain the date had nothing to do with it!

    Hope you feel better soon. And thanks for the umm, vivid, yet effective brain matter imagery.

    e.j.

  • Grandmère Mimi May 30, 2007, 2:53 PM

    Maitri! I’m so sorry. I hope you feel better soon, ma cherie.

    An aside. Not to worry about your use of the F-word. It will really run up your stats.

  • Joe Riehl May 30, 2007, 7:55 PM

    Fall and split-second blackout. I had two– just before my family doctor sent me to a cardiologist who panicked when he saw my stress test results. Bad heart.

    So get yours checked.

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