the pain continues

What a waste of a morning yesterday was. On Thursday I went to see the Dr. They did a complete evaluation and concluded that I had a spinal headache. I was refered to the pain clinic. My understanding was that I was going to the pain clinic to have a blood patch done so that the hole in my spine would heal and my spinal fluid would build back up, thus relieving the headache. Instead what I did was spend an hour in a waiting room, trying to fill out paper work at 7:30 while nursing. Followed by another complete evaluation (that was the same as Thursday's) where it was concluded that I had a spinal headache. I was then told that there is a 95% chance that the hole has healed on it's own and that I'm now just waiting for my body to produce the right amount of spinal fluid so that my headache will be relieved. What I'd really like to know is why I was never told that I might heal so on my own. I was then told that if we wanted to go ahead and do the blood patch (which probably wouldn't help at this point) that we would have to schedule that for another day. All of this was fairly frustrating to someone who had only had 2.5 hours of sleep that night, and had missed another 3 hour round of sleep by packing up the family and leaving for the pain clinic at 7am.

So in conclusion:

I could use some more prayer for my headache.
1. That the hole in my spine has healed/will heal quickly.
2. That my body would get the rest and fluids it needs to replenish the spinal fluid.
3. That my head would just quit hurting so that I can be a better, saner mother.

Of course you can also continue to pray that:
4. The rest of my body would heal quickly.
5. My body would continue reabsorb the extra fluids they pumped into me for surgery. (I did lose at least 2 lbs of it between Thursday and Monday.)
6. We'd all get some rest.


As one who doesn't generally get a lot of headaches, (I took one tylonal for one headache during my pregnancy. It was during the Ethnos gathering when we had the prayer night.) I have a deeper sympathy and love towards my friends who deal with frequent headaches/migraines.