Tag: headaches

[Tripping On…] Easy Mode Living

My mind was so taxed that I spent hours – although not as many as this screenshot would suggest – enraptured in Pokémon LeafGreen. The idea crept in quickly. I stayed up too late playing. However, the need to play was so fierce that I had to comply. Were I not, then that harmless vice of playing videogames for some hours might be usurped by more dangerous vices. How can I play videogames… while still living my life?

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[Tripping On…] Journalistic Pain Reporting

I have just enough energy to write about how I’m feeling before I need to go back to sleep. I think what’s happening is that my spine is compressed in such a way where it’s pinching the nerves now in my lower back. It was my upper back. I’ve learned all the stretches I could to fix that. Now my lower back is acting up in much the same way. I’m feeling the same headaches.

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[Tripping On…] Axiom Repair Drones

My headaches returned with such vengeance that I had to leave work after lunch because I was in such pain. It’s like if each sentence here was punctuated by five minutes of shuttering in pain. All my physical therapy stretches were failing me. I was feeling everything I’ve written about, from the head pangs, to intense pain behind my right eye, all at once. After getting home, I zoned out as my body repaired itself…

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[Tripping On…] Sorting Through Feelings

My neck feels awful. Everything feels terrible and I hate it. Everything I’ve been taught over the past few months is not helping. Only escaping into other things, like writing this essay, are helping me out. Otherwise, I can’t concentrate. I can’t form complete sentences or even spell correctly. This is how a mindbender headache feels. I will probably have to deal with these throughout the rest of my life. There’s no cure, only mitigation.

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[Tripping On…] Spine Curved Leftward

I woke up with a bad headache, but not a mindbender. Just a day-ruiner with enough potency where even after I had done all the stretches I learned in the  Tripping On [The American Healthcare System] series, I couldn’t fix it. I laid down on my foam roller with my neck at the top and my tailbone at the bottom, and surprisingly, found my left shoulder had jettisoned out of alignment by probably one inch…

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[Tripping On…] Bills Under $2000?

While I was doing my taxes, I was asked if my medical expenses were more than $2000. “If you had less than [that] in medical expenses, it won’t affect your return, so we want to make sure you’re not doing extra work.[1]” I had wanted to do an exacting digital audit of all the money I spent on the headaches I endured, but procrastinated on it, so as a quick estimate, no, I hadn’t spent $2000 over.

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[Tripping On…] Pop Back In

I had no headaches from February 12 until March 28, where I felt flashes of a headache forming, but disregarded those warning signs as victorious measures proclaiming how I had built up immunity until I needed to sleep through an entire day because any movement from shifting my head to spine would cause debilitating pain. It’s March 30 when I’m writing this essay and I’ve sorted out my headaches for at least a few hours now. The solution?

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[Rowing Machine] 2020: Week 18 {211.5} “Unfortunately Folded Up”

In the sudden rush to build my work-from-home area weeks ago, I had to sacrifice my home gym’s sacred space. What space was once dedicated just to rowing, which I could occasionally relinquish when inviting guests over to sit at the dining room table, now must also be shared with boxes so I can stand while I work for the unforeseen future. Because of this and current events, I’ve been having trouble burning off calories.

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[Tripping On…] My First Headache…

How often should you push through fatigue? I think only when absolutely necessary and not much more. Here I am, all the downtime in the world in my apartment-mansion, and all I want to do is catch up on sleep. It’s not depression, physically or mentally, because both of those are in good shape, overall. It’s just I didn’t get enough sleep yesterday and now I’m feeling disinterested. I shouldn’t try to recapture the day.

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[Tripping On…] Makeshift Standing Workstation, Part 2

After two days of setting up my work-from-home boxes, I feel good about their temporal arrangements. I don’t want to have a permanent space dedicated to this temporary problem. If this lasts more than the local government-mandated two-week period, then maybe I’ll build something more permanent for my vocational or avocational laptops, especially if I don’t receive any noise complaints. I’ve been careful being quiet both on phone calls and walking around. No complaints yet.[1]

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