The Helpful Healer

Recently my cluster headaches have returned. They always crop up during times of stress. During finals week of college and of course just before my thesis defense in grad school and the last time at the death of my beloved Aunt Jeanette (who by the way would be proud of my wall of books). I've been expecting them to show and was wondering at their late arrival. Even congratulating myself on somehow escaping them at this time. Well like a self-fulfilling prophecy they are back. They tend to come in the middle of the night and can be very intense for short periods of time. Luckily about 5-10 minutes right now and they rarely last longer than a half hour. I had one the other night and when Ben woke me I asked him to have Daddy make his breakfast as I was not feeling well so he went downstairs and came back with a plate of food for me. A healthy nutritious meal as they have been studying that at school. He was very proud of it and so I got up and ate breakfast with him.

This morning I had been up twice in the night and so slept in. When I came down Mark and Ben had made me a lovely breakfast and Ben asked me about my headaches. I told him about them and he said "OK, I have something for that." He ran off and then came back to ask where the pain was and I told him over my eye and by my ear. He said, "alright that gives me an idea." Back he came with a plastic board to rub my head with. Then he got his scissors to cut me hair off so he could get "closer to the headache." I quickly nixed that idea. That put him back a little but he found something else to cure me--two fly swatters intertwined and then flapped against both my ears. Surprisingly relaxing. I'm hoping that cures it but to make sure I've also gone to the chiropractor for an adjustment just in case.