Spring is a wonderful time of birds, melting snow, warmer breezes, budding trees, rain, tulips, and lots of signs of life and newness. For us, unfortunately, spring often brings with it a round of cluster headaches for Joe. For those of you who are not familiar with these, they are awful, brain piercing, headaches that rear their ugly heads about an hour after their victim falls asleep and can last for several hours before subsiding leaving the victim totally exhausted only to repeat the offense every night for the next 3 nights to 2 weeks, sometimes several times in one night. They have been termed “suicide headaches” because the pain and desperation that they cause their victims have left them feeling they have no other option and have thus committed suicide.
Lucky for us, after much trial and error (something I would not like to repeat), we have found Imitrex injections to be the solution. This does not work for everyone so we feel truly blessed that this does for Joe. He is still awakened every night but we have managed to find the right dose to eliminate the headache within 10 minutes. Some nights these episodes repeat themselves up to 3 times. It has definitely put a damper on our energy levels over the past week and a half, but, this too shall pass.
We have managed plenty of activities despite the nightly shot rituals so here are some pics, of the kids of course, and our latest Donut Day.
Easiest, kid-friendly donuts EVER. Biscuits that the kids cut holes in with a water bottle lid. Can’t beat it.
Fried in oil (ok, not so healthy, but good nonetheles)
Shake in cinnamon sugar and powdered sugar.
Looking good!
Then eat…we don’t do this often but it’s a definite highlight when we do!
