i am at work, recovered from having managed to catch a migraine trying to start and drugging it mostly into submission just in time, and ready to go again today

there's a tiny window where if i can tell one is coming and pile my OTC on it and fall asleep pretty quick, I can minimize the fallout from a 4-6 day event to one day of sicky and one more day of vaguely squinting at the world

and i managed to nail it yesterday morning lol

still feels like the leftovers of getting hit in the forehead with a bat yesterday tho

yikes

i still think i lucked on these things because at their worst it's only painful for a day or two, and not bad enough that i can't mostly muddle by

i had a coworker who would get them so bad that she eventually literally had to go on disability for them

like full level 10 pain, couldn't be anywhere but complete darkness and silence, week long before the first stage by itself was over shit

i'll take pain, slight nausea, and vertigo over all that