Crazy Train

Welp. After months of headaches, and irrational, rage-filled crying fits because some dude on the street offered me a business card or flowers, or I had to, you know, go anywhere... I am diagnosed.

Because obviously this guy is a threat. 

But I'm at a stoplight and can't escape without rejecting him and being a jerk!

The official ruling: "Migraines, general anxiety disorder, and agoraphobia."

So now I have crazy pills, just like everybody else, AND a therapist (to learn coping mechanisms).

Ah, The Far Side.

As for the migraines (which they definitely are), apparently I've been taking the Excedrin for so long it stopped helping the headaches and started making them worse.
Cool.
I didn't know that was a thing that could happen.

My crazy pills are going to make my headaches worse for a period of time, and then after a few weeks everything should start leveling out. So I just need to survive a few weeks longer. Garrett pointed out that the meds should be kicking in just in time for time-change and winter darkness and SAD to start being an issue. So there is that.

At least they didn't try to steal my blood.
And after taking the headache meds, my incredible migraine I've had all day has simmered down to merely "pretty annoying," which is totally workable. Boo-ya.

For fun animal facts I have these:

1. Basset Hounds are considered a large breed dog.

Long breed dog. 

"Too much skin for his face."

--Garrett

2. If you can't properly train a dog, you shouldn't have children. (This was just the opinion of my dog-trainer professor, but I have noticed correlations betwixt badly behaved children and badly behaved animals in homes).

Or you have good kids AND good dogs.

3. The reason dogs and cats can't have acetaminophen (tylenol) is because it will cause the hemoglobin in red blood cells to denature (change its shape), and clump together, and the cell to basically leak all its goodies out. It causes anemia in dogs, and death in cats. So yeah. No tylenol.

Heinz-ehrlich bodies, with a bite munched out of them by evil tylenol forces 

(or diabetes mellitus, or lymphosarcoma, or hyperthyroidism...)

Crazy Train