So much happened! Even though we only had a 3 day week at school because of Sandy, everything felt off all week! Each day was pretty typical, reviewing material and then taking pretty comprehensive quizzes on lots of material. Friday was the end of the first quarter for there was a lot for the students to finish up.
I was starting to stress out a bit with my test on Saturday, and figuring out grades for the end of the quarter, especially with there being a decent amount of differences between the two schools that I'm still trying to keep straight.
Then I woke up at 3am Friday with a horrible migraine. I immediately took all of my medicine and tried to sleep again. Which of course didn't really work. I eventually fell back asleep and got a few more hours before getting up to go to school. Usually teaching with my normal headache isn't a big deal. With a migraine is doable, not enjoyable, but I can handle it. Friday was miserable! My medicine was still wearing off when I was coming into work so I felt groggy, but being sensitive to light and sound is not helpful in a high school, not to mention extreme pain. I ended up skipping the pep rally at the end of the day and just helped out another teacher by watching one of her students take a quiz. I wasn't going to be able to handle sitting in the gym with all of the students. I felt horrible for not being able to fully do my job, but it was as much as I could. I was hoping that if I had a good dinner, took some more medicine, and slept well it would go away and I'd feel better in the morning. I did all of that, woke up in the middle of the night to take more medicine, and lost a few hours of sleep in the middle of the night, and then woke up to take my exam. And I was still in significantly more pain than I would wish on anyone. Taking an exam in that much pain is never fun!
Holy moly that exam was difficult!! I walked in feeling pretty confident with what I knew. I walked out not being sure if I passed or not. There were a few questions that I had absolutely no clue how to answer at all. At the end I ran out of time to even fill bubbles in on the answer sheet. We'll see, it's going to be close.
After the exam I ran errands and then came home and just vegged out on the couch. One of my friends came over and we watched a few movies and played a game and had dinner, drinks, and dessert, and just enjoyed our night. We both wanted a low key night, and it's exactly what we had! I was hoping that maybe the drinks would help my head instead of my medicine for the night, and it took the edge off enough that I could sleep, but I woke up still in a massive amount of pain.
So I gave in. I did a little bit of grading this morning and realized that I was in too much pain to function and that if this continued (like it has before for weeks on end) that I wouldn't be able to make it through the busy week. I broke down and took the really strong medicine I have. I don't like it because of how strong it is, and how much it effects me, but it has been the only thing to break week long migraines in the past for me. So far I've been in significantly less pain today. I spent most of the day on the couch not able to do much of anything. Hopefully by the time I wake up tomorrow it'll be back to "normal" pain.
This week is going to be busy. We have teacher work days Monday and Tuesday to do parent teacher conferences and get report cards and grading done.Then it is a normal three days of class. I just have a lot of back and forth to do between the two schools and a lot of policies and differences to keep straight. If I can keep it all together until Wednesday I should be good.
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