So I figured riding in to work might not be the best thing for my fscked up head. During the ride is okay, but once the adrenalin wears off.. urgh. Did catching the Tube make a difference today? Fsck no!
All good until around lunchtime when I chomp down a banana. Still off the booze so I decide to skip the pub and just grab a triple chicken sandwich (with no added bird flu) from Tesco. As soon as I walk down the stairs and out onto the street, my head starts pounding. I can barely walk straight and have to slow down and hug the buildings so I don’t inadvertantly step under a bus. I sit down at a cafe for a couple of minutes before being “moved along”. I might look like a yuppie but I feel like a bum. Back in the office I drop one of the sumitriptan tablets, eat my chicken triple and go downstairs to try and sleep. This time I can’t sleep it off so I eventually give up and go back to my desk. Knew I shouldn’t have eaten anything because now I’m feeling quite sick. Down one of the anti-nausea tablets from the first doctor visit, finish off some work and leave. Make it 100m down the street before unleashing lunch on an unsuspecting garden bed.
Is it classier throwing up in public when wearing a tie?
I’m glad I spent the ?10 on those anti-nausea tablets.. they really worked a treat, if by “really worked a treat” I meant “did abso-farkin-lutely nothing”.
Blah! So I crawl home early from work again and hit the sack for a few hours until Mal calls. We have a quiet night in nursing my head and watching “The Proposition“, an interesting “western” written by Nick Cave set in Australia.
Today (Saturday) was a bit better with no acute migraine, just the usual daily battle with crushing brain pain. Every time I stand up, I have to stay still until the pain goes. Wicked!
The second doctor I saw suggested getting an eye test done. So I coughed up the ?20 for that this morning. I was praying for glasses! At least if my eyes were fscked, it might explain the sudden hell I’ve found myself in.
The result? My eyes are fine. Could be a mild prescription there, but it’d make so little difference, the chick doing the test wouldn’t recommend I get glasses. Back to the drawing board.
She did raise two interesting points: 1. I don’t rest my eyes, like, at all, during the day. 2. The hardcore attacks seem to happen around lunch time so there could be a blood sugar issue here? Looks like I’ll be hanging out on migraine forums for a while..
The rest of the day Mal and I spent laying in the park in Ealing working on our tans.. yeah.. tans! No sh1t! Today was fscking gorgeous!! I actually came home a little bit pink!
Capped the day off with the purchase of a ?60-Oxfam-special Denon amp and over-priced (?12) headphone-rca lead (to connect my ipod) from Dixons. Talk about working over the ipod market! Dixon’s, you suck.
Oh well, back to dosing up on painkillers and watching my social life disappear..
Can you ask for blood tests? Like you wanted at the first Dr visit. Low blood sugar could be an issue, but I haven’t heard of the eyes being affected like that before. Continue with the resting though, it’s gotta be doing some good. Do they have any emergency hosp. sections you can attend at lunchtime to show how severe it as at your worst???? Hope it ends soon, lol, and do continue looking for help.
hey hippy.. i was wondering if you’ve checked out the walk in centres around the city closest to your work. The link below helps find the closest ones. They usually only treat minor ailments but they could also be useful in referring you to doctors or hospitals that might be more helpful (other than the local GP):
http://www.nhs.uk/england/n…
Can you procure Nurolasts in the UK?
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Haha!! Someone else has seen The Proposition! I liked it. I’m not normally up for terribly violent movies, but it’s a goodie.
Also, it’s the movie that my short films got played before at the Arts Festival up here, so it’s got a special spot in my heart.
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Hey Hip
re the glasses thing, I dont need em but strap em on for staring at monitor for long periods and has almost eradicated my Migraine-attacks.
Did you mention the nature of yer werk when getting tested?
For those of you who Don’t know The Hippy is in Hospital, he was operated on last night and should be fine. Apparently he had a brain fluid pressure build up in his head. I won’t go into the specifics but he should be OK. We wish him the best and hopefully we will visit hime tonight in hospital. Grant and Sheila have been with him and Mei-ling and myself will go tonight. I rode the same route to work today for the first time and I wish he had of been there, though he would have been pissed off at my snails crawl! 😉
Holy crap!
Leo, thanx for the update, I was just going to do that. He is safe and well. Needs further investigation and depending on what they find as to what action they take. Thank you all for your care and concern, to those visiting and staying at the hospital, and especially Grant and Sheila for the phone calls and for being there. It makes a mum and dad’s nightmare a little easier to bear.
I knew it was something majorish. Things don’t just get worse like that for no reason.
Get well Hippy! You’ll be better than your old self in no time. Hell, brane surgery might have cured your fear of hills! 🙂
At least food was not triggering your migraines. I can continue to stuff you with chocolatey treats to ease my guilt!! 🙂 I need you to eat my timtams and the evil easter bunnies that are living in our kitchen.
Great news!Operation deemed a success! Stu off monitoring machines and has been able to walk!
Had his first beer yet?
Thank goodness!!!
Glad that everything went well – did they work out what sort of fluid it was?? 5-pounds says it was lager… *grins*
Glad The Hippy is alive and well (and hopefully better!!).
Abby
Oh fsck, I was going to say maybe he had meningitis or something, fsck fsck fsck. Oh well at least he had a gorgeous angel to hang around his bedside 😉 That’s such awful news, I hope he is fine.
I just called Stu because I was so damn worried. Apparently the docs are thinking of letting him out for the weekend. Obviously that’s a BAD, BAD, BAD idea because he’ll refill those lager jugs in his brain… hehehe!
But he’s in good spirits (no pun intended) and they’ve got a specialist in to confirm the diagnosis and then he should just be on antibiotics or something and he’ll be fine. Possible cause? Eating sushi in Japan. Eeek!
Hip’s bored, he must be getting better 🙂
Jeeze Hippy. You are a worry. THey have resurfaced Hawthorn velo
Dave
Hippy, maaate – sorry to hear the serious news but glad to hear that you are OK. Build up of pressure in the skull? Like most things, once you get the pressure right, you will be fine.
get well soon,
SteveA in Perth
Ow, ow, ow. See what comes of eating that dodgy foreign muck? Look after yourself and get yerself posting on a.b when you’re back up to snuff.
Heard about your sickness… glad that they found the cause and you are getting better! Good luck on the mend and to getting riding again and drinking again by the sounds of it 🙂
Great to hear you’re on the road to recovery Hippy. Obviously the fluid is from too much cycling in sunny England. You need to get back to Aus where we’ve combined two of your favourite activities; on the Sunday BR we now do hard rubbish scavenging for old bikes. If we could combine that with drinking you’d be laughing.
My guess was an inner ear infection. I suppose I’ll never make much of a doctor. Get yourself a good dose of sunshine Hippy. Ever thought of visiting Australia?
Sushi? How long ago did you go to Japan?
What’s with the dodgy sushi? I can’t eat the stuff now after hearing that most places here don’t keep the sushi at the right temperature.
Glad to hear you are on the mend hippy – come home, the goat’s miss you. LOL
Get betterer soon mate. Sushi in Japan eh? I suspect if it had been sushing in UK it would have probably got you quicker.
The is NO fucking way it’s food related.
For a Mildura Boy who can stomach Hamburgers after a week down the river with no ice to stop them from going green, everything else is considered "health" food.
Stu could eat a whole plate of those puffer fish in Japan and not even blink an eye! Tell the Doctors they’re dreamin’
Intern: "I drilled another hole…"
(My compassionate side was with my emails and other gifts sent. This is where I take the piss out of him 🙂 )
Thanks muchly everyone!
They’ve let me out from hospital again (I have to go back tomorrow though) and I’m getting better. Might actually be able to see properly soon! Woo! 🙂
I laughed when they suggested food being the problem too. It’d have to be a pretty hardcore bacteria to be able to survive in my body!!
I only let Keithy get away with it because I like some Stones’ tunes.
"I see a green door and I want it painted black.."