Up Late, or Early?

I’m not sure what to call it, but I’m still up. Is it late, or early? I’ve been missing from my blog for the past week or so. I’ve been feeling icky. Yes, that’s the technical term.

I had my second round of Botox for my chronic migraines today. I had two full syringes injected in my forehead, frown line between my eyes, crows feet, and then all over my head, neck, and shoulders. More than 40 injections. Oddly enough, it’s for medical purposes and not cosmetic. But I know that by 10 am this morning, I won’t be able to move my upper forehead much, and my crows feet will vanish again. Hopefully in 10 days my head won’t hurt anymore either.

By the time I made it home from work and picked up my two darling girls from the nanny’s house, I started feeling super icky. Turns out my kidney stones were acting up. I was diagnosed with two large-ish kidney stones the day after Christmas, and have been biding my time waiting for them to come out. Since they haven’t, I had emergency laser surgery this evening.

Thankfully it was out-patient surgery, and after having my two stones removed, I was up and about the house tidying up my bedroom, bathroom and doing laundry. Crazy I know.

I always thought surgery would knock me out, but since there was no incision, just a scope, balloon and a laser, I’m feeling like my old self again. That last sentence sounds terrible. Like some trained monkey was doing my surgery. I assure you, I had a real surgeon. The best part was the anesthesiologist. He gave me the best anesthesia of my life. It’s the fourth time I’ve been under general anesthesia, and I woke right up without being groggy at all.

So now I’m home, taking narcotic drugs for the pain, and I can’t sleep. I’ve been catching up on some TV shows on Hulu. I rearranged my makeup collection. I’ve decided to swatch some new nail colors that arrived from Zoya.com after their recent promotion. Look for that in the next few days. I’m also going to be doing a review/trial of top coats. Just a few things I’m planning for my blog. I hope it will be something you can look forward to.

It’s nearly 4 am, and I’m going to attempt to sleep now. I’ll take more strong drugs and try and doze. Thanks for reading my mid night ramble. When I re-read this tomorrow morning,  I suppose I can chalk this all up to narcotics. I always talk too much when I take these types of drugs. After 7 surgeries, I’ve had my fair share of these drugs. Here’s hoping I can go another 6 months without getting admitted to the hospital again. 🙂

I’ve been Botoxed

I have chronic migraines and headaches. I’ve been seeing a neurologist about it, and after trying several oral medications that didn’t work, he suggested Botox. I went in yesterday for my first set of injections.

I had over 26 Botox injections over my face, head, neck and shoulders. I won’t know for several days if it works for my headaches, but I woke up this morning and realized that I couldn’t move part of my forehead. I ran to the bathroom to take a look in the mirror, and when I saw how part of my forehead was immobilized, I started to laugh about it. That’s when I noticed that my crows feet don’t show up anymore when I laughed or smiled.

I wasn’t worried, it made me laugh even harder. It’s funny to me that chronic pain can lead to a wrinkle free face. It was ironic.

Botox Type A

Now I’m wondering what part of me has to get hurt so I can stop sleeping on my left side. I sleep predominately on my left side, and I’m starting to see more “sleep damage”  on the left side of my face than on my right side. My skin is less elastic that is used to be, and it’s showing it’s wear on my left side more than my right.

Maybe I won’t worry about it too much, and just age gracefully. As gracefully as someone with medicinal Botox can.