THE WEEKEND IN PREVIEW: HOPING MY HEAD LETS ME GET SOMETHING DONE

So I've managed to already break all my New Year's resolutions, but it's not really my fault. For example, one resolution was that I was going to make sure to post *something* here every day (well, weekday) without fail. Yet where have I been since Monday Jan. 2, you ask? Simply put, in agony. About four years ago I started having these awful headaches -- I thought (as did my doctor) they might be migraines. Being the occasional Jewish hypochondriac that I am, I started freaking out that I had a brain tumor or something, so my doctor (in order to ease my mind) sent me to a neurologist.

The neurologist ran an EEG on me and said everything looked normal. He then put his hand on my left shoulder and said, "You're really very tense." Yeah ... shocker! Well, he prescribed me some pain medication (that I think included caffeine ... nothing very intense) and told me to see my dentist and get a nightguard to sleep with because chances were I carried a ton of tension in my shoulders and it was my TMJ becoming sore. I did that. They went away.

Until last week when suddenly I started experiencing that same, awful, burning pain, right around my left eye socket and down the side of my face. It was brief one day. A little more the next. I had still been wearing my nightguard when I slept relatively consistently, but now I was waking up to intense pain each morning, culminating in the last three days -- Tuesday and Wednesday it was nearly constant and I basically couldn't do anything all day long. I basically stayed home and watched movies -- mostly Tribeca submissions, which I needed to do anyway because I'm a wee bit behind.

In fact, it was difficult concentrating long enough to even write today's "Weekend Movies" post at Gothamist. (See, my headline actually was meaningful!) I'm kind of annoyed that I hadn't looked further into the future schedules of places like The Museum of the Moving Image where 2046 will be screening this weekend. I just watched it two days ago on DVD on my crappy little TV. I may have to go see it again just so I get a bigger screen and projected experience.

Anyway, hopefully these headaches will calm down. I'm going to the doctor and dentist next Monday, and in the mean time, here's hoping Excedrin Tension Headache kicks in with some force and lets me get back on track. Probably the most important of my New Year's resolutions was not to give up on them even once I've broken them ... repeatedly. So ... that Top TV of 2005 list I mentioned on Monday? Yeah ... it's coming ... hopefully tomorrow.

Comments

[cynthia]

feel better.