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(Message started by: Dragnlance on May 23^rd, 2006, 12:57am)

Title: I was unaware
Post by Dragnlance on May 23^rd, 2006, 12:57am

This is me after my hit the other day, (about 5 hours after it aborted) Notice my right eye? I never noticed the droop before. My wife says it always does that after a hit. (she cant see it durning a hit because I am always holding my hand against it.) She says that is why I always seem to turn my head to the right when there are pictures, so the left side shows more.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i185/Dragnlance/headachehangover.jpg

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by Melissa on May 23^rd, 2006, 8:35am

Honestly Lance, that's a nice picture of you. :)

I would not know you had just gotten hit if you didn't say so.

:)mel

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by Lizzie2 on May 23^rd, 2006, 12:47pm

Lance,

You look great there! I can't even see the droop! Now you want to see a CHitty pic...check out the following one. I have a heart monitor attached to me, an IV of continuous lidocaine going in through the double lumen PICC line in my left arm. At least my trusty "Prairie Bear" is with me in the hospital! I was 24 years old in this pic, and no idea what day of the hospital stay I was on out of the 17 days I was there... My eyes look like crap...!

http://tinyurl.com/zaw8z

Or try checking out my right eye in this pic...the day of my senior piano recital in May 2004. I had been hit with 5 CH's the night before this!!

http://tinyurl.com/ksdg9

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by alchemy on May 23^rd, 2006, 2:27pm

Lance, my right eye has a permanent droop. I always try to have my shades on for pics.
jim

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by mynm156 on May 23^rd, 2006, 2:30pm

DAMN LIZZIE A PICC LINE!!!!! Sorry baby! That sucks!!

MYNM156

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by mynm156 on May 23^rd, 2006, 2:31pm

I dont think I Droop I just get swelling! there.

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by Tom K on May 23^rd, 2006, 2:37pm

I try to avoid pix when I am in cycle, since the flash sets me off. If I do have to have a pic taken, I usually wear sunglasses. During one cycle, I was standing up in a wedding...oh what fun that was :-/ I took off the shades for some of the pix but when it started winding up, the shades went back on. I know from looking in the mirror, my forehead looks like Frankenstein at times during a bad spell.

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by jimmers on May 23^rd, 2006, 8:56pm

on 05/23/06 at 14:31:04, mynm156 wrote:

I dont think I Droop I just get swelling! there.

Viagra? ;;D

Jimmers

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by Ree on May 23^rd, 2006, 10:27pm

on 05/23/06 at 00:57:10, Dragnlance wrote:

Yep I have that same picture of Dave lodged in my brain... sorry buddy... nice to see what a knight looks like though... nice doggies too....love ree

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by Jonny on May 23^rd, 2006, 10:31pm

Your hand is pushing your cheek to shut your eye. ;;D

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by Lizzie2 on May 23^rd, 2006, 11:47pm

on 05/23/06 at 14:30:06, mynm156 wrote:

DAMN LIZZIE A PICC LINE!!!!! Sorry baby! That sucks!!

MYNM156

LOL That one was my 3rd. The first one went up the internal jugular, and the 2nd threw two blood clots in my left arm. That 3rd one actually has a pretty funny story that goes with it...it was placed in CVIR and one day, a tech on the cardiac unit tripped over the lines and went flying into the wall - the site bled at my arm...but I was definitely more concerned for him! He wouldn't show his face in my room again after that - constantly skipped my vital signs and left it for the nurse to do, etc. It was pretty funny....but only after I knew the line was okay!

Title: Re: I was unaware
Post by Charlie on May 24^th, 2006, 12:32am

OUCH.

Just thought I'd post that while spending most of the day being stress-tested and godknowswhatelse, I learned that one of my nurses aides had a brother that had CH for several years but like me, no more. Her description was classic and the effect it had on everyone around him.

Never heard of us! I'll never understand this. I came here within a few weeks when I got on line just to see how alone I had been. Yikes.

I will give medical types around my town credit for knowing that they aren't migraines though and that they cringe when I mention them.

Charlie