It's a 'toofer' tuesday!

Griffin is getting his first tooth (or 'toof' as we affectionately call it on our house). He has been sick for the past week with an ear infection and although he has been on an antibiotic, he suddenly got really cranky for a couple of days. We thought the antibiotic wasn't working and brought him to the doctor for a follow-up, but everything looked great. After a rather cranky day at day care yesterday, I checked his gums while he was babbling during dinner and lo and behold there it was! It is barely poking through his gums and feels like a shard of glass. Just last weekend he started crawling and now a tooth. Oh...and tomorrow we're finally getting rid of the Donald Trump comb-over. Sweet.

It might be time for an intervention

Detox Day Two: It still sucks.

Excuse me while I reboot

I am in the process of detoxing from all of my migraine medications. Everything except Topamax. And in case you're wondering...this was not my decision. I'm not that stupid.

I called my doctor on Friday because I had a horrible migraine and I didn't know what else I should do. I'd taken the maximum dose of Relpax and I'd already taken an Excedrin. He had already denied my request for a refill for my painkillers. So I'm forced to leave a message on his answering machine where I probably sounded like a desperate drug addict looking to score. Now that I think about it, I was. But I digress. His nurse called back within a couple of hours and told me that I was most likely suffering from rebound headaches and I needed to increase my Topamax and stop everything else. I can't even take Excedrin. I seriously started to sweat when she told me this. Since I had Griffin, I've been taking Excedrin EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Like, I should have bought stock in that company. I only did that because the migraines were so bad after he was born that I had to devise my own little system for rationing my medication. I knew my insurance would only give me so many Relpax in so many days and I knew my doctor would only give me so many painkillers in so many days and so on. So I supplemented everything with Excedrin.

So I'm currently detoxing and it sucks. Big time. I was supposed to start yesterday, but Patrick and Duncan had baseball tryouts all day and I was supposed to be alone with Griffin. I woke up at 3:30 AM with a horrible migraine. When I woke up again at 7 AM, it was worse. I tried taking a nap at 9 AM and woke up an hour later and couldn't open my eyes. That's when I decided to take a Relpax and start over on Sunday. Don't judge me...you don't know the pain.

So today is officially day one. It still sucks.

Wake up!

Paresthesia. Pins and needles. Numbness. Tingling. Whatever you want to call it, it's happening to me. I noticed it in my hands while I was driving to work this morning. To me it feels like that very final stage of pins and needles, when everything starts to come back to life and it feels all light and tingly. When I'm working or moving my hands I don't really notice it, but when I stop, I can definitely feel the tingling. It's weird to close my eyes and suddenly be aware of a part of my body that I wouldn't otherwise feel. It's sort of like being pregnant and suddenly being aware of your belly when you close your eyes and the baby moves.

I don't know how I feel about this yet.

An urban legend...

I woke up this morning and learned of the death of a beloved college professor {I thought about changing 'beloved' because it sounded too dramatic, but in this case, it really does fit}.

If you do nothing else today, please read this article.