My face is broken, I swear it.  For the last week and a half, I've been living with a migraine that won't quit.  On Wednesday, Wotan's day, a good day for battle, I checked myself into the hospital to up the ante on the tangle with the pain in my head.

When you have a migraine for more than three days, it's called an 'Intractable Migraine.'  Supposedly, you're at risk for stroke or aneurysm because all of the blood vessels in your head are dilated beyond belief.  All that I know is that I feel like the Nazi in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' who opens said ark only to have his face melt.  I can't remember messing with any holy relics, lately, but I have clearly done something to displease the gods.

The only way to treat an intractable migraine, short of death (which, as the pain, visual distortion, and nausea dragged on was rapidly seeming more and more viable as an option...I was almost even rooting for the anuerysm, which as my mom would say, is a shondah), is to check into your local ED and let them give you an IV full of headache snake juice.  It's a mix of Compazine, Benadryl, the kinds of narcotics that do not make you feel good, and some other stuff that I can't recall because I've been half out of my mind the couple of times it's been administered to me.  I have to thank the incredibly kind man nurse who stuck me, as he had a soft touch with a needle.  He also winningly distracted me from the majority of the ordeal with talk of Chicago, my adopted home town, which gave comfort when it was much needed.  Also, he was cute, which goes a long way in my book.

It was originally my goal to blog on OS every day, but clearly I've missed a few.  My migraine continues.  I might go back to the hospital tomorrow and see if we can't sort this out.  My right eye won't focus, which is what bothers me most.  Thing is, I think that this is an opportunity to re-dedicate myself to writing.  I've been through some stuff.  And, apparently, I'm going to keep on going through some stuff.  I think that's why it's important to sally forth and start to get it all down.