I had a horrible migraine on Saturday and ended up at urgent care, where they gave me two injections (actually three, one demerol/nausea medication combo injection, and then when that didn’t work, an hour or so later, another narcotic injection and another nausea medication injection).  I was first sick in the lobby, then once we got into a room, I was sick again, then I got up to wash my mouth out and sat down to being continuously sick for about 2 hours.  After the second set of shots, I was sick a couple more times, and then i was really really tired, and I thought I felt better, so they sent me home, and told me if I wasn’t better I had to go to the ER.  We spent over 4 hours at Urgent Care.  I made it from the urgent care room to the car being wheeled out by the nurse at what seemed like top speed with R racing behind, and managed not to be sick on that trip, nor on the car trip home, but once I got home I was sick again.  R put rice on while he went to the pharmacy to get my nausea medication prescription.  The pharmacy was closed, so I called urgent care and asked them to transfer the prescription to a different pharmacy.  I went to check on the rice.  It was on ‘Warm.’   He forgot to push the lever down to ‘Cook.’  I turned it on and hobbled back to my chair to wait.   Urgent Care called back, about 30 minutes after I had called them.  They had transferred the prescription.  It would be at the new pharmacy in about 10 minutes.  Good thing R had brought a book.  Sometime later I heard the rice lever pop up.  I went and scooped myself out some rice.  I sat down and put a super soggy gross spoonful of rice in my mouth, fell asleep, woke up, chewed swallowed, put another spoonful in, fell asleep, repeated the process, trying not to be sick.  It was really really hard.  I made it until R came home with my meds, almost 2 hours after he left to get them.  I took one immediately and let it dissolve on my tongue.  He grilled me some chicken breast meat and cut it into little pieces.  I was so dehydrated I had no saliva to chew with.  I tried drinking a little bit of water with the chicken.  I wasn’t sick.  I was able to take my pain medications, and my migraine preventative.  I let myself go to sleep.  I woke up still with a pounding migraine.  The nausea was better, but not gone.  I took more of the nausea medication and ate a Clif Bar, as usual.  I took the minimum number of medications I could, to try to minimize the possibility of being sick.  Mary came over to wind yarn in preparation for the Dye Workshop I was supposed to teach.  We had arranged it so I would get lots of help from some of the guild members since my health had deteriorated in the past week.  I was really looking forward to being healthy after the lumbar neurotomy made me feel so much better.  The new pain medication I got this Friday has really been helping out with my back pain, which is good.  The migraine was unhelpful.

Sunday was really fun, after I ate the rest of the chicken and rice for lunch and took more nausea medication and pain medication, my headache slowly went away in the afternoon.  The Dye Workshop was supposed to be from 2-4pm.  Mary wound yarn in the morning and mixed up dyes and set up the tables and chairs and we went over my plan in case my headache got worse, but fortunatley, it got better and I was able to give a talk about my dye inspirations and show off some of my hand-dyed yarns and patterns created from my hand-dyed yarns.  I also showed other dyers yarns and talked about how they inspired me and I learned from looking at them.  I talked about the dyeing process and did a demonstration of how I dye my variegated and semi-solid yarn colorways.  Then everyone got to it and dyed a bunch of yarn!  I bugged them about spraying vinegar on both sides of their yarn because we were cold pouring with acid dyes and I wanted to make sure everyone’s yarn set well.  Most people trickled out by about 6pm, but Mary stayed late because she started dyeing last and she did the final clean-up, so I think she left a little after 7pm.  About 2/3 of the yarn steamed last night and Amy and Jasmine came over today to rinse it and hang it up to dry.  The other third is steaming right now and will be rinsed by some lovely volunteer(s) tomorrow!  Here’s a photo of some of the first batch hanging up to dry!

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