So, a lot has been going on here the past couple of weeks, it made my head spin somewhat but in the end, all good news really.
First of all, Steve got headhunted for an *amazing* position at a new government-funded charity which is essentially charged with inventing a more efficient wind turbine. (LOL). It all happened crazy fast but it's such an amazing opportunity for him. He actually got a position better than the one he was asked to interview for - he went in for helpdesk support and came out as the manager for all the helpdesk staff and also in charge of basically all the technical side to the IT dept. His boss will handle any non-technical stuff (meetings with higher ups, funding etc.)
Next, I went to London yesterday for the second time in 2 weeks. The first time was to meet my new doctor, since my old one left, and to be told to wean off the HORRIBLE drug I was on. Yesterday I went in to have something called a trigeminal nerve block, which is injections of anesthetics and steroids in 3 parts of my head. I didn't really want to talk about it before because a) I was scared, and b) not hopeful....a lot of things haven't worked. Silly me.......trigeminal....I thought that meant 3 needles, one in each part of the trigeminal nerve....and I spent about a week panicking about it. It wasn't until after my doc had done the second needle and I said "just one more, right?"...erm....wrong. 14 needles in all, above my eye, above my ear, around the side of my head, and in the back of my neck. It's not a common procedure, at least not here...there's a hospital in pittsburgh that does a lot of them and my doc spent a week there learning how to do it...but I was only the 20th person he's ever done it to.
It was....horrible...but it was worth it. I am now pain-free for the first time in a year and a half...and for a year before that I was only pain-free for maybe an hour at a time. Now I haven't had a headache since 4 pm yesterday. We don't know how long the treatment will be effective for, but it is a very, very good sign that I'm still ok this morning, when the initial shots of anesthetic have worn off. At the outside, it will last for about 6 weeks, maybe less than that....but if it's a sufficiently long time they will repeat the shots every few months as needed.
I want to skip...I want to sing....I actually burst into tears in front of the doctor yesterday when all of a sudden - poof - it didn't hurt anymore.
I will likely be a whole lot less grouchy now LOL. It's been a hell of a ride the past few weeks....but life is suddenly looking up in many areas at an alarming rate.
Just wanted to tell you guys/fill you in.