Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Right now - debating whether to go and get some painkillers, dashing off some SLAs after having seen the complex list the rest of the team came up with and wondering whether another square of chocolate would help the headache or make it worse...

Seriously, I"ve heard chocolate only makes headaches worse........no?

[desertgrandma]

Getting ready to go with the granddaugher for her 3rd eye surgery......a relatively minor op, Goes home a couple hours later, but still worrisome.

They just tighten the eyeball muscles so that their little eyes don't roll around in their head. Apparently, my child is losing her depth perception because her eyes aren't aligning properly.

Dammit.

[nekokami]

Originally Posted by kazbates

This sounds just like a children's book I read to the little ones to demonstrate a story in the round, If You Give A Mouse a Cookie. There are others, each one as adorable as the others.

I bought a copy of that one in Chinese when we were in China a couple of summers ago, because I just couldn't imagine a more enjoyable way of learning to construct conditional sentences, dependent clauses and whatnot.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Seriously, I"ve heard chocolate only makes headaches worse........no?

I might give it a miss...

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Getting ready to go with the granddaugher for her 3rd eye surgery......a relatively minor op, Goes home a couple hours later, but still worrisome.

They just tighten the eyeball muscles so that their little eyes don't roll around in their head. Apparently, my child is losing her depth perception because her eyes aren't aligning properly.

Dammit.

Keeping my fingers ccrossed it all goes smoothly.

[ravenne]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Getting ready to go with the granddaugher for her 3rd eye surgery......a relatively minor op, Goes home a couple hours later, but still worrisome.

They just tighten the eyeball muscles so that their little eyes don't roll around in their head. Apparently, my child is losing her depth perception because her eyes aren't aligning properly.

Dammit.

Jeeeez, I'll keep my fingers crossed! Good luck for the little one - and nerves of steel for you!

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I might give it a miss...
...

For migraine, I sometimes find that chilli can give some relief (a nice, spicy Thai stir-fry, preferably chicken instead of red meat, can be the good stuff, but if short of that I've downed a tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce instead). A spicy cup-of-soup/noodles might be worth a go, if you have them handy at a local supermarket. Otherwise, I know someone who swears by the sport drinks (Gatorade, Staminade, etc.).

Cheers,
Marc

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Getting ready to go with the granddaugher for her 3rd eye surgery......a relatively minor op, Goes home a couple hours later, but still worrisome.

They just tighten the eyeball muscles so that their little eyes don't roll around in their head. Apparently, my child is losing her depth perception because her eyes aren't aligning properly.

Dammit.

Hope everything goes well (fingers crossed for your granddaughter).

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Getting ready to go with the granddaugher for her 3rd eye surgery......a relatively minor op, Goes home a couple hours later, but still worrisome.

They just tighten the eyeball muscles so that their little eyes don't roll around in their head. Apparently, my child is losing her depth perception because her eyes aren't aligning properly.

Dammit.

yeesh ! poor kiddo ! don't you have eye exercise doctors (here they're called "orthoptiste", i don't know what the name is in english) there ? i had a problem where my inner eye muscles weren't very strong (it wasn't easy for me to look cross-eyed) which made it hard to focus on near things ; i had a few sessions with that doctor who made me do eye exercises and gave me some exercises to do at home. they were a little uncomfortable at first but not painful at all, and i'd rather do that than surgery any day !! after all, they are muscles ; you can exercise them. maybe that could help your granddaughter.

[zelda_pinwheel]

oh, and for migraines, i've found caffeine can sometimes help a lot.

[Sweetpea]

The best time of the day!

Closing down my laptop and off to the movies!

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh, and for migraines, i've found caffeine can sometimes help a lot.

Good thinking. I should have said that first. Then I'd also have said, "However, if you've already had plenty of caffeine and it hasn't helped, more (at least with me) may make it worse".

[Lady Blue]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

The best time of the day!

Closing down my laptop and off to the movies!

Sounds like fun. What are you going to see?

The last movie I went to see was "ET" when my daughter was little, and before that was "The Exorcist" and before that maybe it was "Ben Hur" or something. As you can tell I don't do movies much. I WATCH them, just don't GO to them.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

For migraine, I sometimes find that chilli can give some relief (a nice, spicy Thai stir-fry, preferably chicken instead of red meat, can be the good stuff, but if short of that I've downed a tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce instead). A spicy cup-of-soup/noodles might be worth a go, if you have them handy at a local supermarket. Otherwise, I know someone who swears by the sport drinks (Gatorade, Staminade, etc.).

Cheers,
Marc

Hmmm... I know someone in the office who keeps a stock of sweet chilli sauce. On the other hand, I'm not sure I want to go and raid the HR department's supplies!

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh, and for migraines, i've found caffeine can sometimes help a lot.

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Good thinking. I should have said that first. Then I'd also have said, "However, if you've already had plenty of caffeine and it hasn't helped, more (at least with me) may make it worse".

Tea (which has caffeine in, as well as tannin) certainly helps me. Coffee makes it much, much worse (and the fizzy caffeinated drinks make me feel sick). Also tepid water (if one of the triggers has been not enough fluid).

This time, though, (partly because of one of the triggers, and partly because of the speed it works) I've decided to go for the chemical route and popped a zolmitriptan.

[Curly]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

best wishes to your sister curly for a very short labor and a healthy (and not too big, to start with... ) baby !

Still waiting and waiting and waiting. She generally has big babies so we expect it to take a while.

Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts, I'll keep you posted.

[Curly]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Getting ready to go with the granddaugher for her 3rd eye surgery......a relatively minor op, Goes home a couple hours later, but still worrisome.

They just tighten the eyeball muscles so that their little eyes don't roll around in their head. Apparently, my child is losing her depth perception because her eyes aren't aligning properly.

Dammit.

I hope the operation goes well! Will this be the last one or is there more to come? Will she be in much pain or discomfort?

Here in the UK these things are often helped with exercises or special glasses if the problem isn't too severe.