Olympic Sized Headache
Are you sick of the Olympics yet, or am I the only one? Technically, my body is the one that is sick and tired of the Olympics — my mind and my stomach is enjoying it just fine. There’s nothing like settling down with a couch full of junk food to watch the world’s greatest athletes in painted-on outfits bust their lack of guts. God bless America!
Whoa, Nellie
I refuse to have a Tivo. It wasn’t around when I wanted it as a kid and I will not forgive it trying to suck up to me now in my late 30’s. I stayed up for an entire fortnight back in 1984 to watch the Los Angeles Olympics and if I could do it then, I could certainly do it now.
However (and you knew a “however” was coming), trying to follow the sports I actually give a darn about has proven to be next to impossible. I decided to focus on the horse sports (equestrian events). The fun thing about Oylmpic coverage is that you never know when your event is going to come on. You are lucky when you know what DAY it’s going to come on, let alone what time.
Following the equestrian events has proven to be impossible, even when I did decide to stay up all night to try and finally glimpse the half hour of horseflesh at four in the morning, which means they only showed about ten horses of the actual sixty-odd that competed. I was so exhausted, I can’t even remeber what happened. I have to go to the newspaper for that.
Why Am I Banging On About This?
When you have migraines or chronic headaches, you can’t stay up all night watching television, even if it is the Olympics. In fact, you can’t stay up doing ANYTHING all night (insert your favorite all night activity here) because this will trigger a sleep deprevation migraine.
Part of managing your headache pain is accepting your limitations. You also can’t rely on being entirely well the next day. If you are going to do something stupid like watch the Olympics for nearly 24 hours straight when you’re in your late thirties, make sure you have nothing going on the next day and that you make no commitments to keep on this recovery day.
And, for God’s sakes, don’t watch beach volleyball.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Funny stuff, I feel your pain.
It is hard to find any useful information about the olympic schedules, but you can find most of the equestrian stuff here:
http://www.theequinest.com/how-to-watch-the-equestrian-olympics-online/ (shameless link)
This is a useful list of ways to watch the games:
http://valleywag.com/5034866/the-definitive-guide-to-watching-the-olympics-online
Now you won’t have to be up ’til 4am.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I’m fairly sure they’re covering equestrian every evening at 5 central time. Maybe you’ll be able to catch that tomorrow!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
On Oxygen - Sorry I forgot to add that before I hit “reply”.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Yeah, they did a whopping half hour on equestrian last night. (Rolls eyes skyward) Thanks for the info, though.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
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