About this Blog

~Hi, my name is Courtney. I was a full time college student, starting to be a dancer, and used to work with kids part time, living on my own until my illness disabled me.
~I became sick in 2005. I created this blog in the summer of 2006 to record my "headache" diary and to see if anyone finds it interesting.
~12/2006 I lost my job then after, failed a year of college.
~2/2007 Dx Lyme Disease with Bartonella: prescribed 8 months of oral antibiotics. I'm not even sure if I ever had the Lyme Disease.
~11/2007 The doctor took me off medicines while I was still improving but not fully recovered.
~6/2008 Dx Chiari I Malformation by a neurosurgeon in Beverly Hills.
~8/2008 Decompression and Lamenectomy helped 80% of my problems.
~2/2009 Dx Hypermobility by an Orthopedic Surgeon/School Doc: Started PT, dancing, going to school and working.
~6/2009 Started working full time as an Infant-Toddler teacher, which requires lifting. Dancing part time, maybe I'll finish school eventually...lol
~12/2009 Dx Chronic Sinusitis: Stopped dancing due to constant infections.
~2/2010 Sinus Surgery & complication: Severe Epistaxis: Became severely anemic.
~3/2010: Dx Ehlers Danlos Syndrome: by Geneticist
~4/2011: Switched jobs, now work at a Pre-K teacher for 3 and 4 year olds. Less lifting!
~5/2011: Started PT and exercising again

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

migraine...went away :-)

Yesterday I did so much. Probably too much. I woke up early to take M to work, went to the bank, stopped to get a burrito, took my car to the shop, took two buses to school, walked a block to my class, walked two flights of stairs to my second class, ate the rest of my food, walked a block to the bus, took two buses to get my car and finally got to M a 5pm. And i only started to feel body aches at the end.

Today I stayed home but mostly felt good. I took my brother and sister to the store and to KFC but my head started hurting. I got home and had to sleep on ice, i had a migraine. I got up a few hours later and ate a little food. My migraine is still there but I still feel pretty good.

This is amazing. I can totally handle this. Every time I get a headache I fear a CSF leak or another complication, but I do better every time. I feel normal. Also the last few nights I have wanted to sleep around 9:30 10pm but M wants to stay up, and we are trying to find a place to live and I feel its on my shoulders even when he says he will do it, he doesn't. So a little stress and inadequate sleep, plus having surgery a little over a month ago...equals a migraine i suppose.

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