Saturday 1/15/2011

Today was my sister's wedding. Congratulations to my sister and my now brother-in-law!

I had to be at the reception hall at 10:30 this morning, to get ready. This is about an hour away from my parents house, where I stayed. I woke up, feeling okay. I rode with my mom. We started getting ready and my sister and the other bridesmaids arrived (I was the maid of honor).

Throughout the day I was feeling okay, it was really a lot of feeling up and down. I was out of it for a majority of the day, zoning out not really fully paying attention to what was going on, which I feel bad about. At one point, my migraine was getting quite bad, and my eyes were tearing and it was just getting very bad. Fortunately, this is before we were at the church and there was really anything that was too much expected of me. My sister was so sweetly very concerned about me, in the middle of all the hustle and bustle. It was at this point that my sister was putting on her wedding dress, so really it is not inconceivable that I would be tearing up. She was so beautiful.

I broke the Headache Clinic's rule of no pain reliever's and took Tylenol with Codeine, and that helped a lot. I started to feel more functional. It is a little bit frustrating that I had to go so prepared. In my pretty silver clutch there was packed: Tylenol with Codeine, Anaprox, B6, Magnesium, Petadolox, Syringe with Alcohol wipe, and Toradol. Just in case. Then it was time to go to the church. It was a full catholic service (my sister is catholic, I am not). My sister was beautiful walking down the aisle. I was able to sit and stand through the entire service without trouble, and for pictures after.

Back to the reception hall, which was a beautiful estate. Gorgeous. I was okay, and I decided to be proactive with the Tylenol, when I felt it fading and wearing off, I would take more, rather than waiting for it to stop working completely. I didn't want to be at all problematic at my sister's wedding.

I sat near someone at the reception who was a headache in and of himself, but a gin and tonic, rearrangement of seats, and a short dinner solved that. Beef wellington for dinner. Then there was the first dance and dancing. I decided to try to enjoy myself and dance, which is atypical of me. So I danced, fast songs and slow songs with my girlfriend. Eventually I reached a point where I knew I was about to fade. Fast. So I packed up and my girlfriend and I left. Turns out to be a good thing because I did fade very quickly. We needed to stop by the other car on the way out to pick up my GPS and there, I threw a fit because I couldn't find something, which tends to happen with my headaches.

Overall though, I couldn't have asked for a better day. It was beautiful; my sister was beautful. I felt as good as could as been hoped for. And my sister genuinely seemed happy if the beaming is any indication.

AM vitamins taken, afternoon vitamins taken, PM meds taken, 4 tylenol with codeine taken, 3 B6 taken over the course of the day.