A Horrifying Headachy Hoo-hah!

Shana, don’t look now but it’s that time of the month again….

Mom, I thought you were menopausal?

That’s post-menopausal, isn’t it? And I’m talking about the Quiz!!!!!

Oops! Sorry. I got confused. S’all right?

S’all right!

So, who’s in our quiz this time?

First of all, let’s not forget the good example we set for our readers each month by posting a picture of what we cooked for dinner.

But Mom, I ate in the cafeteria.

Are you still in college? When are you graduating? What’s taking so long? Never mind! Here’s what I ate for dinner:

Mom, you ate half the potato salad, again, before you took the picture!

Did I do that again? I apparently make the world’s best potato salad! Shana, remind me to give myself a potato salad award.

Is there any chance we’ll be presenting the quiz before the end of my first semester?

Which reminds me, Shana, the quiz gang might want to see this picture of you leaving your 8:00 class.

Mom! I think the quiz gang might want to see you starting this month’s Quiz!

Yeesh! Well, fine, if that’s what everyone wants! So this is Claire again.

Didn’t Claire have the Halloween hoo-hah from last month?

Yes, and now she’s having a headachy hoo-hah!

It sounds horrifying.

Here’s how it happened:

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Ai yi yi. We went to a park yesterday for three hours, 80 degrees, summery sunny weather; the kids had a blast; but we left there coughing and I had a headache!

I’m getting a headache just thinking about it!

Uneventful evening, except for the coughing and my headache and the sneezing all around.

Well, if that’s what you call uneventful…. Here it’s called a disaster!

I put everyone to bed.

Maybe sometime between 3-5 a.m., I awoke to AB’s sobs! (P.S. I had been kept awake from midnight until that point anyway, off and on, by the twins’ restless sleep). She was writhing and sobbing and holding her head as though the pain was unbearable!

OMG!

I think it was another one of those big headaches of hers. At first I did not know what was wrong, but when I tried to console her, she just barked, “NO! NO! NO!” The rejecting consolation made me consider Nat-mur, though the anger made me think it was something else; I wasn’t sure what to do! I went through a few things unsuccessfully (Nat-mur, Nux Vomica) while she writhed and gnashed her teeth and sobbed; then I tried _________________30C which of course I wish I had tried first! A headache like this in the past was abated by Pulsatilla but the emotionals were so different this time, I guess I can’t expect to have a “go-to” remedy for a big headache every time one comes along.

No, you can’t. It’s not like allopathy where every headache is Ibuprofen! If a case has a mental concomitant, the remedy has to match that, and the etiology has to be taken into account too.

I gave her a dry dose of ___________________ and within a minute, she was asleep!

No! Get out!!!!!

But the relief wore off in about 2 hours

You know, I’m really not surprised. For a presentation that intense, I think I would have given a 200C.

She woke up to the same writhing, sobbing tune; she said something like, “It’s no use”–

which is a typical “Eeyore” thing for her to say, but with a crazed, panicked expression from the excruciating pain. As a mother, it makes you want to shake your fist at the heavens!

I ran downstairs and grabbed an old small honey jar and filled it with water, dropped a couple pellets of ___________________ in, shook it like crazy, didn’t wait for it to melt

FYI: You never have to wait for pellets to melt!!!!!! The medicine is on the outside of the pellets, not on the inside!

(her over-the-top misery could not be put off!) I gave her 1 tsp. Asleep in two minutes!

Wow!!!!! Good going, Claire! Putting the remedy in water and shaking does raise the potency!

Slept ’til 11 this morning, woke up and soon after waking, her head hurt again; I succussed and gave another tsp and so far, so good!

Amazing!

I feel clunky when it comes to getting the picture right “quickly”, but I sure am glad _____________________ worked!!!! She was miserable!

I don’t know what mothers do in the middle of the night without homeopathy, I really don’t!

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So, listen everybody, if you know what remedy Claire used, write to me at [email protected] and let me know. The answer will be in next month’s ezine. Bye-bye!