Rough week

I had the week off last week for Thanksgiving and spent some time in Georgia and Tennessee visiting friends and family. I ended up driving home on Friday afternoon, because I wanted to be back in Opelika to watch the Iron Bowl game with Micah and Blake and Stephanie (Roll Tide!). I'm glad I decided to drive back b/c Saturday I was virtually dead. I didn't get out of bed all day. :( Headache drama. You know it's bad when this girl couldn't sit on the couch - or even lay - on the couch to watch the Iron Bowl (that would be the Alabama/Auburn game for the uncultured folk). I did manage to sit with Grandmom later on and watch a little bit of Home Alone 2 - big accomplishment. I tried the Migranal (DHE) nasal spray but I didn't have any relief from it, which was a big disappointment since I was hoping it could take the place of the shots.

That was the beginning of what has been a very long week. I have decided that this medicine I'm on (Zonegran) clashes big time with my hormones the week of my period (sorry for any males who may happen to read this) and make me crazy. You know me - I'm not a crier. But I've struggled with lots of crying and anxiety this week (and I noticed it the last time around too, just after I'd started on Zonegran). I called my neurologist on Wednesday and he called in another steroid. I didn't get to start it until that night, and so it's been keeping from sleeping the past two nights..but it has helped my head some, although I had to do a DHE shot yesterday.

So I am physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually drained from dealing with worse than normal pain and trying not to lose my mind, and trying to work, and take care of myself (you know, sleeping and eating and calling dr/pharmacist)...it feels like more than I can do. I found something a few weeks ago which has been helpful - Mindful Worship Meditation. Mediation recordings based on Scripture. If you're interested, the site I found them on is here: http://www.mindfulworship.com/. Particularly this week, "Jehovah-Shalom, The Lord is Peace" and "Think About Such Things" have been useful to me. God is so good to me. His plans for me are good. He's given me friends who love and encourage me. He watches over me. He is faithful and I can trust Him. Headaches are hard and I'd like for them to be over, but I will trust Him. Thank you for praying! It means so much to me.


In the meantime it's been freezing at BigHouse - we're still working on getting copper wiring and gas hooked up to our central units so that we can have heat in our building. So we've been doing what we can off-site and I've worked a few half-days holed up in my office with the space heater...brr. Just trying to get things ready for our Christmas festivities in the next couple of weeks - these are my favorite BigHouse events of the year: Teen Party, Breakfast with Santa, and Kids' Night Out: Santa's Workshop. Fortunately none of our events are in our building - we have several churches who are graciously hosting us.

Also to keep you up to date with BigHouse - we're running for another Pepsi grant! This is to win $5,000 for our 2012 swimsuit and towel drive. This year we filled 3, 421 requests for new swimsuits and towels for children and teens in foster care across the state of Alabama. The estimated cost of this project was over $90,000. You can help us by voting every day: TEXT -110182 to 73774 (PEPSI), ONLINE - http://www.refresheverything.com/swimsuitsandtowels. You can log in with your facebook account (which is the easiest way) AND sign up with your email account (you might have done this to vote for us in previous Pepsi grants). We need to finish in the top 20 on Dec. 31st to receive the grant!