Sweetness and light
I know, I need to lighten the hell up around here. I’ve done that for my friend Dawn. Go visit and say hello, won’t you?
But the truth is, friends, I am going through it.
News from the neuro is, not terrible. I am a “classic migraineur”. Seriously, is that a word? But apparently while am classic, I am also severe. In case, you know, I didn’t know that. I like this doctor, as he’s given me some natural alternatives as well as medication to combat the headaches when they hit. Which, thankfully, are no longer daily. Amen.
So, tell me, why would my sugabetes choose to act the fuck up, right now? I have been vigilant this week and my fasting sugars are OUTRAGEOUS. Like RuPaul, or Ron Paul, for that matter.
Fucking hell! High sugars suck the energy right out of me (sugar high, my ass) and make it pretty impossible to do the things I need to do to get them down. Like racquetball, or walking or speaking in complete sentences. I get emotional, easily overwhelmed and just a tad bit crazy.
I am trying not to be frustrated, I am trying to be sweetness and light. At least I have the sweetness part down.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 am
I hear that applying a thick coat of nutella to your forehead and then sticking two cookie monsteresque googly eyes in the nutella will cure that. oh and take a picture of yourself too and post it here.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:56 am
At least you do.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I hit reply before I finished my note: I’m glad your doctor is able to help you. I’m sure things will get better soon.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Oh honey – I am glad you are getting some relief from those migraines. You are sweetness and light – in a completely non-predictable and unique way.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
reminds me of the book Unbearable Lightness of Being.
you wouldn’t be dark and divine if you were all sweetness and light.
glad you have something to help with the headaches. I hate migraines. and the word headache, even migraine, just isn’t enough to describe the utter torture vice pain in your head at the time. hang in there. we can wait for light.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
i’m so sorry about th migraines. i can’t imagine. and you are sweetness and light. you really are.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Classic: highest quality and outstanding. That’s you. Not the damn headaches.
Sweetness AND light are not actually required together. I looked it up, because my brain doesn’t work in complete sentences either sometimes.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Oh..I wish FuriousBall’s cure worked! Hey, maybe it does? He definitely got the lightness quotient for the day.
I’m sending you dreamy darkness and cool cloths for eyes and serenity. I had horrific migraines for a period of time in my life and now it has changed. I hope it does for you, Flutter. It is miserable to have them!
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
“migraineur” is definitely a word. I think it’s French, though.
I wish I could hold you and kiss your head. I would, if I were there.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
ummm….so, are you going to get to feeling better soon? because, umm…i mean, well, i have some concerns. because see, you know, i mean, well, i need you in peak physical and emotional condition so that this can quickly get back to being all about me. and because if i get so lucky as to see you in sf, i’d like a piggyback ride through fisherman’s wharf.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
While saying the word migraineur doesn’t make the headaches better, it does make you sound sort of mysterious. Like a spy. A French spy. And the French don’t care about sweetness, though I think they’ve got a lock on light (Paris and all).
Still, you’re both. And we all just want you to be well. Stupid sugabetes.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:53 pm
unlurking to offer alternative treatment for migranes…acupuncture. i’ve had great success with treating migraines, making them more manageable and less painful when they arrive.
wish i could offer advice about the sugars – i do know whenever i stick my sugarbetes friend, she says her numbers stabilize for a few days.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
(You)
Sugars off and migraine and you can still type a blog post? Babe, my admiration knows no bounds.
I hate this is getting you. Hate. it. Sorry.
By any chance did your doctor suggest Holy Basil? It’s a good natural insulin regulator that’s helped me a lot, on a variety of levels.
By any chance are you at a cycle transition point (no need to answer, I know, I am be way too nosey) because that always screw with everything for me. But then, I’m old. And you, ma petite migraineur, are a spring budding flower yet.
(P.S. Changed my name in honor of Dolly Parton and the American Idol Dolly Parton fan fest.)
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
P.S. I am not, nor would I, suggest to you to use Holy Basil. I mean, who knows if it’s okay, certainly not little old me with no MD after my name. I meant no implication with the question or reason why sentence. Was honesty curious about it.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Ugh! Migraines. I do hope you get them completely under control – and I highly suspect you will. No one can do all the internal work you’ve done and not get that payoff.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Well, you’ll probably lighten up when you lighten up…when you’re going through life crap, it’s a little hard to be all Suzie Sunshine…Just aim for Betty Balance and you can be Suzie Sugar until then (hee-hee…Ok, not that funny is it?)
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:38 pm
i relate to the feeling like i need to lighten UP (on my blog) & the feeling of > who would i be doing that for ?
cuz; like you sd.: i AM goin’ thru it right now!!
THAT is My truth.
Why fake it ?
I do enough light~inViting & distracting & POSitive focussing in my DAILy life….. for ME.
anyHOO: I am also relating to the body symptoms you are describing.
but
i think we’ve got different things going on.
are you diabetic ?
i have auto-immune> digestive + on + on ……….going on.
p.s. i have had SUCH a time FINDing blogs where Women are telling it like it IS abt. a tough time !!!!!!
don’t change, please.
that is why i come here!
Well THAT & how you write abt. it.
tee.heee*
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Ok, not to go all new age on you (not that that’s a bad thing, Im all about it), but I wonder if stress effects the shugahbeets (I am from the south after all), and I wonder if meditation and stress reduction techniques would help? Im sure you’ve tried them, but I like to be redundant from time to time.
I hope you feel better soon dahling, but in the mean time. Breath.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Damn you sugar. Leave my Flutter alone!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
That’s it! I’m officially putting your sugars on notice.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Stupid sugar beets, anyway.
Wait – you did say “sugar beets,” right?
Wait – what would sugar beets have to do with…
Oh, shit. Never mind; feel better.
(((You)))
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Dang it! Chanda said what I was going to say!
I too wonder about the effects of stress on a metabolism already unbalanced with the “sugabetes”, both in respect to your migraines and the whole WTF with your high sugar. I don’t know jack about it, I admit; I’m just wondering…
Here’s to hoping the sugar settles down soon and that Dr. Neuro-dude still has a few tricks up his sleeve to help our favorite classically severe Migraineur not be so classic OR severe!
Hope you feel better soon – shmack! (that was a kiss, not a hit, btw)
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
sweetness and light my ass… let’s have some lemons and a dark room. xoxo
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Sweetness and light?
I must be at the wrong blog….
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Frustration seems like a perfectly reasonable response to your current life situation to me. That said, I have never gone much for the sweetness and light approach or, come to think of it, the finding the silver lining in the cloud approach either.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Wishing you well. And soon.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Maybe your sugabetes was jealous of the time you were spending with your head? I dunno. Darn bodies anyhow!
I’m interested in what the doc had to offer as treatment. Keep us posted and one day, I’ll hit publish on that awful migraine thing I wrote. . . one day.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Migraines? Suck. I feel your pain (weak, I know).
Be well. Take care, okay?
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Migraines suck.
My oldest daughter suffers from them. She got her first one in first grade, she was six. She’s eleven, now. The doctors seem to know NOTHING about them. And by NOTHING I mean, SHIT!!–As in, “She doesn’t have a brain tumor. That’s good news for you. Good luck with the rest of it.”
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Shit. Let’s buy you some rad fucking shades in San Fran, m’kay?
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Hate headaches. HATE them. I hope the doctor’s approach helps. If it does, let me know — I get both tension and migraine headaches and they are misery. I’d love to hear what you’re doing.
Given the current circumstances, I’m impressed that you posted. Feel better. *hugs*
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
If you wrote that post over at your friend’s, you’re sick. Not as in sick and twisted but sick as in coughing, hacking sick. No wonder your sugars are so high. It will get better. Do you take birth control pills, sometimes those can make migraines worse. Hope you’re better soon. Sending a hug.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
dude get your ass to cali already and let me feed you some sugar free rolled tacos.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:54 am
Sweetness and Light? Thats when you eat marshmallow fluff by flashlight with the covers pulled over your head… which is totally not what you need for blood sugar issues. Maybe peanut butter?
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
Oh, honey… I wish I knew some magical words to make it all better… or sweet… or light.
Heachachey and high sugary or no, I think you are a peach.
Hope you feel better soon!!
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Ugh. I’m sorry to hear that. Someone else I know is having a hard time with their sugar levels right now, too – I wonder if it’s just coincidence or if sugar levels are harder to control at certain times of year?
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Hey there…darn headaches. Feel better. I am using natural alternatives to treat Matthew’s wheat sensitivity….I much prefer that when possible. Wishing you a headache free evening!
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Oooh…a migraineur, are we? That sounds so…European.
I find it so amusing when I discover that I was so far off the mark when I assumed that the things I experienced are what other people described. When people complained about being “winded” or that the room was stuffy, I thought they were experiencing it in the way that I was…then I found out that I had asthma. I’m sure your doctor was just trying to make sure you knew that you weren’t a big wimp…or a hypochondriac.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Feel better! KayTar is jealous that you are “classic”. LOL She doesn’t get to be classic anything. Although, she is NOT jealous about the “severe” portion. You can keep that.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Lighten up Frances! This was definitely lightened up – but the migraines, they just suck the donkey and kudos for alternatives, I sincerely hope they work my friend. Sweetness is overrated, right?
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I only have sporadic migraines….and I can tell you…they bring my entire WORLD to a standstill! UGH!
Hope you feel better soon!
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I guess my T. is a migraineur as well–it does have a certain ring to it.
I’m glad you’re getting some relief from those headaches. What natural remedies did your neuro recommend?
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Bleh, sorry to hear things are not so good, Christine. I hope it gets better soon.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I’m sorry you’ve got migraines, I know how debilitating those can be from friends who suffer with them. I hope you find some relief soon and that your sugars return to normal. I’ve been through that whole testing multiple times a day thing, it sucks.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:26 am
So you got the fancy word diagnosis? Sounds so sauve, but I know it sucks. Did they suggest magnesium, and vitamin B2? They can be helpful.
Also – I used this when I was pregnant with Zack – I have soaked my head, which sounds silly. But if you are home, you can pour cold water over your head at the onset. My midwife was right – it helped.
Ok, enough migraine talk. Hope you have a great weekend, pain-free and peaceful.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:01 am
May the new meds work….
April 4th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
oof. i hope you feel better. sorry about the sugar stuff.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
you don’t have to be sweetness and light for us. you be what you are, who you are, and we love you anyways…