Shhh
I woke up this morning with a horrendous sinus headache. I took some medication, drank some water and tried to forget about it. Strangely enough trying to forget about pain, will not make it go away (I have noted this for future reference).
Shortly after a viewing of the Zinn documentary, Michael, Lindsay and I wandered about... from bookstore to record shop to el to resale shop. I started to feel nauseous. Nausea added to a sinus headache is my universal sign for an oncoming migraine. I just walked out. I couldn't wait. I ran across the street to the large chain of bedding/cheap clothing/shoes store and lost my quiche in their rest room. Subconsciously I must have decided that if one must puke in a public place, it should be in the bathroom of a large corporate entity. I stumbled across the street to a drugstore and purchased a LARGE bottle of water and medication suitable to my distress.
I called lindsay to apologize for my sudden disappearance, met them on a close corner and headed back to the el. As soon as I got onto the platform to waitI felt I had made the wrong decision. I had cash in my wallet, a cab was not out of the question but it hadn't even crossed my mind. I could feel the water and medication swishing around in my now empty stomach and wasn't sure I was going to make it home. The pain shooting from my third eye towards the back of my head made me immediately want to jump from the train station onto the traffic below on Belmont... but I could see the el approaching.
The ten minutes to my train station felt like an eternity. I stumbled into my local ciggy shop and purchased a Coke™. Caffeine helps and who has time to make a cup of tea in circumstances like these? More stumbling the two blocks home and I collapsed on the sofa. A few sips of the Coke™ and it was lights out. I woke up several hours later in my now dark apartment to hear my phone ringing. There were multiple missed calls and rain pounding on the half opened windows.
So while I have guests in town, I sit here at home alone, telly on mute, half awake, overly medicated but in much less pain. I hope their afternoon and evening has gone better than mine.