I get the kind of migraines where if you had a spoon handy, you’d dig your eyeballs out just to see if that’d lessen the pressure and pain in  your head. I also get the kind of migraines where you puke your guts out. Well…what’s left of them.

Now, I consider myself to have an impressively high threshold for pain, especially for abdominal pain. I love it when they ask you to “rate” your pain on a scale of 1-10 to determine how bad off you really are. I think…”Hmmm…well, really, I had absolutely nothing better to do at 2am on a Friday night. I got this dull little head ache, and just brought the barf-bag along for shits and giggles.” They were really good though. I have to say this is one of the more efficient ER’s I’ve been in. I got some Phenergan and Imitrex via IV, passed out, and awoke feeling much better.

I’m back home sitting on my couch writing this in my probably barf-covered PJ’s, just glad to have my head out of the toilet. It was somewhat amusing to answer the question, “Do you have diarrhea?” with a “No.” That hasn’t happened for a while!

So, cheers to the J-pouch for hangin’ in there while I was pukin’ everything I put into it back up. (Sorry for confusing you on the food-routing there, buddy!) And thanks to being Crohn-ed and colon-less to getting me an express one-way ticket to the ER bed. Thanks to all the prior hospital visits for the absolute lack of anxiety about the ER, the IV, and thanks for the many prior stick-and-miss, vein rolling experiences for knowing which vein was best for the IV.  I am truly not bitter to have this all down pat. Ironically, that was not sarcasm.  I am just grateful to be able to receive medical care that will relieve my pain, and get me back to the “real” world.

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