I've been getting daily headaches and I thought for sure that they were the chronic kind caused by taking daily Tylenol, Excedrin, what have you. I've had them before, so I've been weaning myself off of the fore-mentioned for the last two days. Before that I started drinking more water or juice, thinking that I was also dehydrated. I hate drinking plain water, so I've been adding those little packages of mix in with them.
Well, I was wrong.
You see on top of taking the Tylenol or Excedrin, no I didn't take them together, but on top of one or the other, and sometimes ibuprofen, I would take a caffeine pill, the generic version sold at Walmart, called Stay Awake. Well, as it turned out when I had a headache today and yesterday, I took one of those rather then a pain reliever and my headache went away. So I have concluded that it was more the caffeine pills than the pain relievers. So now, not only will I try to wean myself from the pain killers, but from the caffeine pills too. What a bummer.
The doctor told me a few months ago to cut down on the caffeine and I did. I quit drinking coffee, unless we went out and even tea, or drinking the decaffeinated stuff, and pop with caffeine, but I didn't cut out the pills. I only took them once, maybe twice a day, so I didn't think that they would matter. Well, at looking at the contents, one of those little buggers has 200mg of caffeine. I don't know how much a cup of coffee has, but I'm sure it's less than that.
I already know that I have OCD to some degree and I guess that may make it easier for me to become addicted to things; I don't know, scientists are still out on that; but I do stay away from alcohol for the most part, because of that and because of the medication I'm on. I also know that caffeine is a drug, but I never had a problem with it before. Now I guess I've developed one. :(
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013
It Rained...
...and rained a lot!
We were getting to where we really needed it, like last year, but the skies opened up big time!
I don't know how much we got, but I can tell you, it made for some white knuckle driving when I was taking David to work earlier this afternoon. At times I could barely see and some cars even pulled off the road. It hasn't rained like that for awhile, but boy am I glad it rained!
We were getting to where we really needed it, like last year, but the skies opened up big time!
I don't know how much we got, but I can tell you, it made for some white knuckle driving when I was taking David to work earlier this afternoon. At times I could barely see and some cars even pulled off the road. It hasn't rained like that for awhile, but boy am I glad it rained!
Friday, July 5, 2013
Rest in Peace, Mom
Today marks one week since my mom passed away. She was 86 and would have been 87 later this month.
Dave and I were fortunate in that we were able to be there for the service, but unfortunate in the fact that we were en route when she took her last breath. We were able to say our final farewells, however, later that day at the funeral home. They did a fantastic job at taking care of the arrangements my siblings had requested.
Mom has one sister that we know of who is still alive. She is now the last living aunt that we have from either side of the family. I am in touch with her daughter though and we learned a lot from her about Mom's early years.
I'm surprised that I didn't cry at the service, but that morning when I woke up, I felt such a sense of happiness and relief that she was no longer in pain and was with her brother, Freddie in heaven who was killed in WWII. We found out two days before she passed that she had lung cancer and that it had spread and was terminal. Why it wasn't found earlier, I don't know.
Now it's just us kids. I hope we can all stay in touch. I'm scared that we won't but I will try my hardest so that we don't drift apart like so many families do when the one who was holding them together, is no longer there. I'm the only one who lives out of state, so I guess I'll be doing a lot of calling, although for the life of me, I don't know what I'll talk about.
Dave and I were fortunate in that we were able to be there for the service, but unfortunate in the fact that we were en route when she took her last breath. We were able to say our final farewells, however, later that day at the funeral home. They did a fantastic job at taking care of the arrangements my siblings had requested.
Mom has one sister that we know of who is still alive. She is now the last living aunt that we have from either side of the family. I am in touch with her daughter though and we learned a lot from her about Mom's early years.
I'm surprised that I didn't cry at the service, but that morning when I woke up, I felt such a sense of happiness and relief that she was no longer in pain and was with her brother, Freddie in heaven who was killed in WWII. We found out two days before she passed that she had lung cancer and that it had spread and was terminal. Why it wasn't found earlier, I don't know.
Now it's just us kids. I hope we can all stay in touch. I'm scared that we won't but I will try my hardest so that we don't drift apart like so many families do when the one who was holding them together, is no longer there. I'm the only one who lives out of state, so I guess I'll be doing a lot of calling, although for the life of me, I don't know what I'll talk about.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
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