Peg Kerr's Journal

My sleep has been deteriorating again. I had a short night's sleep on Sunday, which triggered a headache bad enough to force me to go home from work and rest all day in a darkened room, unable to read. The inability to read is torture for me, and I resorted to turning on the accessibility features of my phone to make it read aloud to me. (It's not as good as an audiobook. I picked a British male voice ["Jamie"] but it sounds rather robotic. But it did the job at least.)

I can't say that what I experienced was a migraine, exactly--at least I never felt nauseated--but it certainly impaired me. Once again I found myself wishing that I didn't live alone so that someone could be there to take care of me when I feel ill.

Usually, if I have a day with a bad headache, the next night's sleep re-sets everything to normal. This time, it didn't and I had to take a second sick day.

I got back to work yesterday, but I only managed three and a half hours of sleep last night. Another headache is brewing.

background: a stormy lightning-filled green-tinged sky. Lower left and lower right: semi-transparent semi-profiles of a woman's face, squinting in pain. Lower center: the face of a haggard-looking woman (Peg) faces the camera, unsmiling.

Headache



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