Don't Back Down

As if all the fun we had Sunday morning wasn't enough, it didn't end there. Trying to keep things calm, we figured we'd just hang out and do nothing except sit around and decompress. With any luck, by the time the kids did come home and we had to speak to another human being, it would be late in the day and the events of the morning would just be long gone. Unfortunately, someone out there decided that just wouldn't do.

Around noon we were kicking back and watching an old movie when I was visited by yet another unwelcome visitor. At least, I guess that's what time it was, because I really have no idea. The next thing I knew, I was waking up in the back of the ambulance, on my way to the hospital. That's right, I had a seizure. Joy of joys - could the day get any better? At least the ride wasn't a horrible one, but I still had to go through the whole barrage of questions in the back of the bus while they determine if I've come out of my stupor. It took a while, but eventually I came around.

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Actually, I just took a single pill (100mg), but it's the last (I hope). Starting tomorrow there should be no more. We'll see how it goes from here. As long as I keep getting a good night's sleep, and eating consistently, I seem to be feeling pretty good. I hope it keeps up.

This morning I dropped another pill. Rather, I didn't drop another pill. So I'm now just taking a single 100mg pill at night. That means one week to go. Assuming no problems along the way. Thus far it's been fine, but I am feeling a bit lightheaded. No idea or explanation at this point. But no headaches either. We'll see what happens.

I didn't sleep too well again last night, but I think it was more because of the excitement of our pending trip than anything. Even though we don't need to leave the house until about 7:30, and I rarely sleep past 7:00am anyway, I just have to make sure I don't oversleep. The good news is that the headache that just won't go away has pretty much gone away. Hopefully it will not return for a while. Have a great weekend!

Even though the Embassy Suites breakfast was calling me, I didn't sleep very well last night. Still, I'm feeling pretty good today. I think that means that I'm doing well on the lower dosage of Dilantin. I sure hope so.

Not quite twelve hours after dropping my dosage again, and thus far I'm feeling pretty good. I actually got up about half an hour earlier than normal this morning, and the headache that has been bothering me for the last week is, thus far, pretty much non-existent. I can still feel a little pressure, but nothing like I've been feeling for the last week or so. Hopefully this is a good sign.

I also feel a little light-headed today. Not sure if this is because of the medicine, the sheer amount of laundry that I've been doing or the fact that I've had about 8 strips of bacon in the last 12 hours (probably more than in the prior 6 months combined). That's likely it. My arteries are hardening as I type.

Down to two pills at 100mg each - one in the morning and one at night. Here goes nothing.

So here's the end of the week. I slept fairly well, and I'm feeling pretty good, but I still get occasional headaches. It's better than a constant headache, and even when I feel it, it's more of a burst of pain than anything else (not like a constant pain, and it seems to go away pretty quickly). But tonight I drop another pill. So I'm curious to see how it feels tomorrow and Friday.

I guess that I'm going to go with the opinion that I'm just working something out of my system, because it seems like each day gets a little bit better. I'm feeling better today than I did yesterday, and that was better than the day before, and so on. Even the persistent headache is barely hanging on. Of course, tomorrow is the day I drop another pill (really, it's tomorrow night, so it will probably be Thursday before it has any effect), so if that somehow is causing the headaches, we'll know then.

Another good night's sleep, and I'm feeling good. That pesky headache just won't quite go away. I've eaten this morning, so it's not from hunger. We turned off our sound machine last night, so it shouldn't be from noise. I'm running out of ideas. It's not a bad headache, but I can still feel it. I'm alert, but it's definitely still there.

Today has actually been pretty good. I've felt a lot better than I have the rest of this week. I still have what I'd call a low-grade headache (what does that mean, anyway?), but it isn't the head-splitting pain I had a couple days ago. After returning from church, I napped for an hour or so, and I'm not sure if that helped or not. A good lunch has me feeling pretty good right now too. We'll see how it does a little later in the day. Hopefully I can get to feeling better before it's time to drop another pill on Wednesday.