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badmemory

Is the aura another name for a visual migraine?  I didn't start getting them until after I came off HRT & still get them now (I'm 77 although I was late 60s by the time they made me come off HRT. 

Both my mother & sister suffered from awful migraines.  My sister once scared everyone silly by waking up in the night having gone to bed with one & talking like it was a foreign language except it couldn't have been because any that she could have come across my father already understood.  Even my mother had never done that.  I did occasionally go a little weird (yes I'm weird normally but this was not the normal) after pancakes, cream & syrup, but only when followed by the upstairs of Boots in Manchester.  If we didn't have time to go upstairs I was fine.  The strange thing is that I would have been with my mother & she was okay even though she did suffer from migraine.  I have always believed that it was an allergy to somethings, but not one thing a combination of things.

CRANKY40

No @badmemory the aura is the visual disturbance that happens at the start of some migraines known as "classic migraines". If I didn't take medication as soon as the aura starts it's followed by severe head pain and vomiting. The day after feels like a bad hangover - even coughing hurts my head. The talking problem is called dyphasic migraine and that happens to me too sometimes. My friend is allergic to dairy so eating anything with that it can give him a migraine but mine is usually low blood sugar or light reflection (even store lights can do it). 

Sun_Addict

My DD has suffered from photosensitivity migraines since she was a child. Plus she has epilepsy so you can imagine what flashing lights do to her. 

CRANKY40

My best mate has epilepsy and migraine too @Sun_Addict. I thought migraine was to do with blood vessels but I was reading yesterday that the aura is triggered by electrical activity in the brain and I wondered about how close to epilepsy it was. 

Blackcats

migraines sound horrid.

love the crochet sheep - well done.  Looking forward to seeing the spring frost blanket.  I'm making a granny stripe blanket using quite bright colours which are a bit outside of my preferred colour palette - I'm never sure when I'm working on it but it does look nice from a distance.

WinterWarrior

The sheep is brilliant! Well done you! 

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi Cranky
Well done on being debt free (not caught up for a while!).
Love the cute little sheep.
Like @WinterWarrior - we say cwop for co-op Also love the 2 chubby cubs who i discovered thanks to the MSE forum
love Deni x

foxgloves

Oh, Cranky40, I love that sheep! He's just ready for Easter.
F x

jwil

I love the sheep!

CRANKY40

Good morning,

Thank you all for the sheepy love. I'm going to start making his big brother today - I read the pattern early on in the week and emailed the pattern maker as some if it didn't seem right. She has revised the pattern and sent me the new one so fingers crossed.

I've made a "to do" list for today while I'm sitting here with a coffee. It's probably a bit ambitious given that it takes me ages to do anything these days but I want to do the clothes washing mountain (major contribution from the HT's floordrobe last night) and strip both of our beds and get the bedding washed too. If I use the tumble dryer I should be able to get through it all. I'd like to update the (very out of date) freezer inventory and do the ironing too. That leaves tomorrow clear for some baking and some more crochet. 

No more weight lost hence the freezer inventory so I can try and make healthier meals and as the garden is like a swamp not much exercise in that direction either. I do want to start some veg to go in the back when it's a bit less like marshland. I have a new garden bed that I started last year (used to just be a couple of rocks on flat clay soil) that is more compost than clay so I want to add some compost and carry on food growing in that. The rhubarb at the bottom of the garden is huge already....I need to think about picking and distributing some of that in the week. 

I won't bore you with my current average step count but it's pitiful. I have decided that it needs to increase no matter how much it hurts. I don't have a total in mind, I'm going to start with "more than yesterday" and see where that takes me. BF's house should be in the final stages now. He has half a kitchen so on Monday I will be helping to clean the cupboards and drawers that are done and to put away what we can. We used the kitchen counter to plant some trays of flower seeds up yesterday and it was so good to be able to see out into the garden again. Hopefully we can do some more planting on Monday if we have time. His garden is so much bigger than mine and has a lot less clay soil. 

I did the food shopping early because I needed packed lunch stuff for next week and snacks for the HT and friends for last night. He had the top marks in his class for the two exams that he took at the beginning of the year so I didn't mind buying a few bits for his mates. They ordered in pizza and paid for it themselves and they always tidy up before everyone goes home. Anyway, total spent so far this month is £265.56 and there's £35.33 left but the only thing that we may possibly need next week is milk. 

The first washing load is in the machine so I'd best crack on with the rest. Take care all of you  😊