No Headaches In A Week!
Right. I know you will probably hate me for writing an article about this, but I consider it newsworthy — I haven’t had a migraine or headache in a week. (Cue Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorous”). This is especially significant as there have been two heavily cloudy days this week which usually triggers my barometric pressure headache AND I also went through an entire pre-menstral time without getting my usual pre-menstral headache.
I normally have a headache once every three days, and have a migraine once or twice a month.
If it can be done with me, there’s hope for everybody.
How’d I Do It?
Well, here we hit a bit of a snag in the good news. I’m not entirely sure how my head has managed this minor miracle. I have had a significant change in my life in the last week, which may or may not be the reason I’ve had a blessed week — I got five goldfish on Monday. I set the tank up October 1 and let it bubble and hopefull grow healthy bacteria for the new goldfish for two weeks.
They are gorgeous baby feeder fish, in my biased opionion. I’ve stopped watching television or keeping up with the Philadelphia Inquirer — now I go stare at the fish. It’s like Animal Planet but without any commercials. If I get a little tired of the fish, I just turn my head to look at my dog. The fish are (so far) helping me reduce stress levels.
Of course, I’ve also stuck to a regular excercise routine in the last few months (walking the dog daily, weather permitting), cut out Coke and Pepsi and put some money into a bank account. Think that might have something to do with the lack of headaches recently? Maybe. Of course, if it turns out that the headaches were due to lack of excercise and an improper diet all of this time, then I might get a headache realising that I’ve been putting myself through this misery!
But, for now, I beleive watching the fish are helping my headaches. Perhaps that’ll work as a placebo. Well, as Henry Ford said, “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” (Of course, he also said, “Excercise is bunk!”)
January 8th, 2010 at 9:42 am
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