Did you have a nice trip? See you next fall!

Oh hey! I totally forgot to share about my fabulous experience at Urgent Care last week! How could I?! Wanna hear the story? No? Too bad.

So! I woke up that morning, Thursday, feeling fine. Got a little bit of a headache but it wasn't much of nothing so off to work I went. Headache was gone, feeling fine, joking it up and then BOOM! -Yeah, BOOM!- I was standing there, checking some folk out and my vision started to get trippy. I thought it was just from looking out the window and you know when you look at something bright it makes your eyes kind of weird? Well my eyes are pretty light sensitive, my eye doctor agrees, so I just thought "whateves. Just from like looking at bright spot on a car or something" went on doing my thing for a minute or two. Then it got worse. It was, as I described it to health care professionals, just like what I said. When you see something bright, makes it trippy. Also when you stand up to fast and your head starts to swim.

Anyhoo, it was weird! I'm standing there trying to work and well, I can't really see. All those jokes about being able to cashier in my sleep are true I guess. Most of my vision is blurry and I'm freaking out a little bit cause I don't get what the hell's going on. Internal freaking. I probably stood there and kept working like that for five minutes until no one was in my line. Then I walked over to the front end manager and was like "um, I...I can't really see" and described to her what was happening, all while crying a tad bit cuz it was so weird! So then I had to go with her to the service desk so she could tell the manager and then I called my mom and she came and got me and off I went to Urgent Care! By the time I got to the doctors my little weird vision thing was over with. Probably lasted about a half hour.

We went to some clinic that used to have Urgent Care and my mom didn't know it wasn't there anymore but they got a nurse to take a look. She said it probably was a migraine but I should go to a doctor. So then my mom took me to Urgent Care and after sitting in the room waiting for the doctor to come in (it ended up being a physician's assistant, eh well. she knew her shit...oh and we totally stole some stuff) I had to do some strange little tests for her like scrunch up my face, wag my tongue all over and keep my balance when she shoved me. Passed 'em all, no brain tumor! The diagnosis? Migraines. But not just any migraines my friends, migraine variants. I get the aura without the migraine. Which is nice. I don't get a head splitting, well, headache. So I googled it all. Acephalic migraines. Affects 5% of the population. Hmm. So I spent the rest of the day drinking lots of water in a dark room. Watching House. All in all, kind of weird.

So there you have it. My Urgent Care story. I've never been before. Though I did have to go the ER when I was pretty young, 6-7 something like that, to get stitches on my chin after falling in the shower. Don't laugh. Exact same thing happened to my brother! And my sister? Not a perfect chin, she swam into the wall at the pool.

Oh. And this is also my way of documenting it like the doctor said to. Works better then what I did. Circle the date on the calendar and write "Headache" We'll see if I get another because in my googling I guess the International Migraine Society or some shit has a check list of when you can officially call what you have a migraine to prevent misdiagnosis and it's two aura's sans headache for my diagnosis. Hmm. Alright.

Oh by the way this is my 200th post. Hooray!