the day of changes

   After having to call off my plans with Annie yesterday because of a migraine, I just took the rest of the day off. You know, this is just like me. I very carefully talked to my doctors, both of them, to prepare for this trip, so I wouldn't get migraines and would feel good the entire trip. And it worked. No, it didn't, you say. Yes, it did, I say, until I started messing with it AGAIN. The rheumatologist increased the medication for my lupus, and my other doctor got me on a higher dose of topamax and on an ACE inhibitor. I was really feeling good. So good, in fact, that I thought I didn't need that high of a dose of topamax, so right after the wedding I took it down from 300mg to 200mg. Gee, and look what happens a week later. When the FRAK will I ever learn!?!?! I was really doing well, too. All I can do now is take the proper dose and wait for things to settle down. I think that's what got me, really, that 300mg is above the theraputic dose for migraines, but I guess that's what it takes for me.

   So, I actually slept last night and was ready for Annie when she called this morning, but she called to tell me that she couldn't go. She had an allergic reaction to a medication and would have to reschedule. Ironic. I took it as one more rest day to get things back to "normal." After I hang up from Annie, my mother comes in and sits down to tell me that they, mom and dad, just got back from the cardiologist and he has to have a stress test on the 27th, and she feels strongly that she needs to be here for him. I agree. She wanted to be there with me for mine, but I don't think mine will amount to much and feel that his has much more implications than mine. So, she won't be driving back to Oklahoma with me. 

   Not long after that, while I was still in bed (well, that was pretty easy to do cause that's where I spent most of the day, sleeping off the medication I took yesterday), I got a call from Marilyn. She's going to have foot surgery, either she's having it next week or she's finding out more about it next week. But, she's not showing her horse on the circuit. But, and this is kinda odd for me, she is going to lease someone else's horse and show it at the horse show. I guess it would be a lot less work that way. But, like she said, she doesn't heal fast and she's got a wedding to plan for in November, and foot injuries do not heal fast anyway. So this is going to take some thinking and discussing anyway.

   So, just like that, things changed quite a bit today. Tomorrow is likely going to be my last poker game. I was planning on leaving Friday, but my cousin would like me to get together with her kids while they're here, and I would like that, too. I'm really curious too see them now as neo-adults. So, I have to figure out my time frame for the trip home, and make sure I'm well rested for it, and it would be nice if I was staying up all night at the time, but that's not happening. The one time I would like to be staying up all night, and right now it's 11pm and all I want to do is sleep. Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.