Who is in your Head?

Here I was thinking I was nuts because I think there is a squirrel named Chuck who lives in my head and gives me migraines, when I came across this story on AOL under Strange Body Facts.

"Is it possible for a spider to live inside your ear?

It's not a common occurrence, but small spiders sometimes make a home in your ear. For example, a Greek woman in Athens complained of headaches and a sharp pain in her ear when riding around on her motorbike. Upon examination, her doctor uncovered a spider's web and then a spider. He added that the spider probably enjoyed its stay in her ear because the temperature was ideal for it."

Ugh! I don't think I could cope with a spider living in my ear. I'm so glad Chuck is there to keep them out. By the way, Chuck is having a poker party in my head today with his little friends.

The Great Escape

Wow...I was just reading all the comments from my last post. It sounds like migraine peeps sustain a lot of pain from migraine related injuries. It's bad enough that your brain hurts in the first place, but then you get hurt because your brain hurts.

I'm almost back to full speed at work. Luckily, my boss gave me a project to work on while my hand is healing, so I don't have to do that much typing. Still it was hurting like the dickens and with my migraine going into overdrive with spring fever, I've been having another rough week.

I've noticed that when I'm overwhelmed with pain, I frequently find myself thinking like a thirteen year old girl. Most often, my inner goth girl makes an appearance and it's all doom and gloom and the world is ending type of thinking.

This week, I found myself wanting to be a cowgirl. I know it's not a reasonable thought for an adult, but I really wanted to stop being a migraine chick and start being a cowgirl. I know herding cattle may not be the animal rights thing to do and I'm not sure if there is such a thing as a vegan cowgirl, but a girl can dream right?

Migraine Related Injury!

I think I have sustained my first migraine-related injury. I had a really rough week last week with migraine pain and stress at my job, so by the time I got home Friday night, I was so not in the mood to make dinner. I ordered pizza from my favorite local place. They are notorious for taking a long delivery time, but the pizza is extra good so it's worth the wait.

While I'm waiting for the pizza, I warm up the oven with my pizza pan inside. Then once I get the pizza, I chuck it in the oven for fifteen minutes. The bottom gets crispy and the cheese on top gets all melty again.

This time, I pulled the pizza pan from the oven with a hot pad and opened my pizza box. I tried to lift the pizza onto the pan, but the pizza was very floppy. In my migraine fogged brain, I decided to grab the pizza pan and slide it under the pizza. Problem solved. The only thing is that I forgot the hot pad part and just picked up the pan with my bare hand.

Holy crap! Did I burn the shit out of my right hand!! There was lots of screaming, etc...I ended up burning every one of my finger tips, especially my thumb as well as the palm of my hand.

Now there are blisters everywhere, and of course, I'm right handed. It made for an very interesting weekend, but I'm getting better with typing only with my left hand. Today should be very interesting at work.

It just makes me wonder that if I wasn't in a migraine fog, would I have done the same thing? Has anyone else had a migraine-related injury like this?

Brain Movie Roundup!

Just for giggles, I checked out IMBD for movies with "Brain" in the title. There were 144 partial matches. These are my favorite posters so far! Including The Brain Eaters below.

The Brain Eaters

I was home sick yesterday with gigantic migraine pain and I was definately feeling like I was one of the undead. I was hoping a horror movie on tv might cheer me up. With one eye open, I watched The Brain Eaters, a 1950's horror movie. Judging by the name of the movie, I was waiting for some actual brain eating, but alas there was none.

Basically, wet guinea pig looking things with antennas attacked people and they turned their victims into puppet zombies after sticking their antennas into the base of the victim's necks. When they detached, they left a poison that went into the victim's brains and killed them.

"All of the people who have died have bite marks on the back of their necks and it turns out these are the work of parasites.... These turn out to be millions of year old aliens who want to rule the world and have been living underground all this time."

It wasn't a very scary movie at all, but the poster is quite frightening. I think it might make a good migraine mascot. What do you think?

Here is one of my latest Migraine Chick Comics.

bad migraine haikus-the sequel

MyMigraineConnection recently had a poetry contest so I decided to enter some of my bad migraine haikus. Alas, they didn't garner any awards or an honorable mention. You can check out the winners at Migraine and Headache Poetry Contest -- Announcing the Winners!

Here is my entry, featuring my latest batch of bad migraine haikus. I even came up with a snappy title to bring the collection together.

Journey Through the Land of the Migraine Haikus

So alone each day
In the invisible pain
My tears go unseen

Migraine monster pain
And no amount of crying
is going to fix it.

My world is falling apart
into a pain filled abyss
What more can I do?

Pill popping rebound
Don’t swallow too many pills
Or your head will hurt

No one notices
My migraine is all the time
Brain interrupted.