I’ve slept most of the afternoon, so I’m wide awake now. I’ve been congested all week and Thursday evening ended up with a sinus headache. I’ve never had a migraine, but I can’t imagine anything worse than a sinus headache. It stayed with me to some degree from Thursday till today. I took several medications but nothing was working. Because I’d been off and on antibiotics for two months now, ironically beginning with a sinus infection, I just did not want to take any more. So I avoided going to see a doctor and tried some home remedies instead. We took Jadon for his swim class this morning and I almost passed out in the Y bathroom. So Hollis said “Enough!”, and took me to the emergency room. By this time the pain was so bad if someone had been willing to carve out the left side of my face I would have thanked them, even without anesthesia. And then to make matters worse I was left in the emergency exam room freezing, but they wouldn’t give me a warm blanket because I had a fever. So after the doctor saw me and diagnosed yet another sinus infection, I was left shivering and miserable, close to nausea with pain in this room for what seemed like forever. Finally I walked out to the nurse station and told them to give me drugs or shoot me! I was released shortly after that. I came home and prayed for deliverance while Hollis went to pick up my prescriptions. Deliverance came in the form of sleep. Somehow inside of the excruciating pain I fell asleep and didn’t awaken until Hollis was back with the meds. After I took them sleep managed to overtake the pain again. But this time when I woke up there was only a dull ache. As I type there is still a dull ache, but the searing pain has been gone for almost nine hours now. There’s something in one of the meds that the pamphlet says “may interfere with normal sleep patterns.” I guess that’s why I’m still very much awake at 1 o’clock in the morning. Jadon and Caleb were great through it all. And Hollis as usual took wonderful care of me. I love my family.