My head hurts, my neck hurts, my throat is sore, but external to the throat, so sort of the neck I guess, but not like a normal neck ache, instead causing me difficulty in swallowing and a feeling like the muscles are all tired. I also have major light sensitivity going on. Everything in the world seems bright. I’m not wearing my glasses, so if there are typos or poorly constructed sentences I blame my lack of vision. Well, blaming lack of vision is usually an obvious thing to do regardless. It’s why I’ve ended up where I am. Ha! Metaphor.

Anyway, I have the aches and pains of a man twice my age. Maybe I should make a run at getting some professional painkillers.“Doc! It’s killing me!” I would, but don’t expect this to last and doubt I could summon an adequate level of drama. A lot of times when I get this way the only thing that really helps is a long hot bath, a nap, and lots of darkness. Or morphine. And damnit, fresh out of that.

I don’t think this can be classified as a fullblown migraine, mostly because I still seem to be slightly functional. (I’m sure there’s an obvious joke there, but this is a family friendly journal.) On the rare occasion when I actually do have a migraine, I tend to have it be on one side of the head only, and I get light flashes. This is nothing like that, but then, I haven’t had a headache like this before. I did finally decide to take an OTC, which seem to be helping. Joy joy joy (down in my heart)! Ok then, now I need to decide if I am going to be hungry at all today. I think so, but at this point it also seems like too much effort. Maybe I can just get an IV drip? Ha!

I make it sound like I am dying or something, but honestly, if it was that bad I wouldn’t be typing here, and like I mentioned in a previous post I have a fairly high tolerance for pain (I once watched all 5 seasons of “Angel”). I think I could make this all go away with some decompression time. Yeah, that’s it, I have the bends!

I’d fire up WebMD to see if I actually have anything of concern, but last time I did that I convinced myself I had yellow fever.