Can't Sleep

Here I am again. Not sleeping as I should be. I had a horrible migraine headache today (or so I think it was) and so I took a fairly long nap when I first got home and now I'm wide awake.

I tend to get these headaches that are much more than just a headache. Around the middle of my seventh period class my lips started getting numb, as did my entire left arm. All of a sudden my voice seemed to be coming from someone other than me. I could hear how I would sound to someone else, not how I normally sound from within my own head. Like what I sound on a video or on my voice mail recording on my cell phone. Then my vision started getting all freaky. It was like a strobe light flashing inside my head. And since it wasn't disco day at school I knew something was up! My students started staring at me and asking if I was okay. I was definitely not okay! I was afraid I would pass out and the last thing I wanted was to pass out in a class full of seventh graders!

Thankfully, I made it and came straight home. Well, almost. I had to stop for ice cream and Mt. Dew. Why? Because scientific studies have shown that caffeine helps to alleviate and even prevent migraines. I needed a quick fix! And ice cream is a no-brainer. It acts as an internal ice pack. (Or so my theory goes.) So, I got my supplies, came home, ate bowl of ice cream, drank down a big ol' glass of Mt. Dew, drew my bedroom curtain closed and snuggled in to sleep that crazy headache off!

My point once again...I can't sleep.