I know I baby picspammed yesterday, but holy crap, these came out too cute not to share!

No such thing as picspam when it's a cutie of that magnitude. Goodness, GC, what an bundle of adorableness.

Greetings, all.

So Hubby ran our housemate to work, then came home and woke me up--praise be it's my day off--and said, "Let's go bother some doctors." Yes, the dear doofus spent the night playing "The nitro has knocked it down, I don't want to go back on Plavix" roulette. So at 9 AM we went to the ER, where his regular cardiologist was on call, yay, so we had immediate access to the person who knows Hubby's heart best.

The EKGs and blood tests haven't shown anything that says definitively "Heart attack here," so they did an angiogram--what's one more, and an official disabled designation pays for it--and that didn't show anything definitive either. So he's currently in the hospital for the night to see if anything weird happens. He should be home tomorrow.

They now do angiograms through the wrist, not through the groin. It's much less invasive, not as far to go, and other good things. When we started with the heart adventures, angiograms involved heavy sandbags on the incision site in the groin to make sure everything stayed sealed. I have been amazed at the progression in technique.

It may have been bad angina, it may have been the crimped nerves in his neck mimicking a heart problem. We've got the best cardiology department in the state less than two miles from the house, we might as well use it.

Thank you all for the ~ma, I think it's going to be OK.

Cereal:

Great set of pictures from a benefit screening of RHPS with a shadow cast performance of professional actors including Lea Michelle as Janet, Matthew Morrison as Brad, Jack Nicholson as the Narrator, George Lopez as Chuckie Grey, and Julian McMahon as Frank (and he makes a SPLENDID Frank). Best picture though was the cast going bonkers as Tim Curry was called up on stage at the conclusion of the performance.

There are also a couple of vids in the article as well.

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Jorge Garcia! Rock on.

Thanks for checking in, Connie. Glad to hear your husband is OK. Sorry about the night in the hospital, tho. Those never involve a good night's sleep.

Connie, glad your hubby has the more-or-less all-clear signal.

They now do angiograms through the wrist, not through the groin.

Wow, really? My dad hasn't had one through the wrist yet!

When we started with the heart adventures, angiograms involved heavy sandbags on the incision site in the groin to make sure everything stayed sealed. I have been amazed at the progression in technique.

Just the move away from the sandbags was a godsend.

I realize this is kind of laughable, given what some people have to go through, but does anyone have advice for getting rid of a migraine? I'm on day 3, and this is killing me.

Hmm don't know if this will work just because it handles the high end of my comparatively mild ones but:

Neilmed or something else get warm salt water going from one nostril to another.

2) normal does of ipubufrin plus normal does of tylenol. (No guarantees that this won't cause death or organ failure.)

3) lean back in comfortable chair - not lyiing down but one with your feet up . Cold wet cloth covering your sinuses eyes, forehead and everywhere on your head that hurts. Wait resting comfortable and see if that does not get rid of migrain. if it does not work within 4 hours ad Advil. (again not guaranteeing against causing death or organ failure.)

If none of this works, see doctor.

My cure. Don't know that it is yours.

normal does of ipubufrin plus normal does of tylenol. (No guarantees that this won't cause death or organ failure.)

It should be fine. I wouldn't say do it all the time without consulting your doctor or at least the pharmacist at CVS, but I take them together for migraines when I need to.

The other thing that can help is alternating heat and cold packs on your forhead and/or back of neck -- like, 10 minutes hot, 10 minutes cold, etc.

Also, if you aren't too sensitive to touch because of the pain (I know ita has said she is, for instance), try massaging the area indicated on the diagram at the top of this page: [link]

I've been trying Excedrin Migraine, which helped the first day, but hasn't done much since then. Maybe before bed I will take ibuprofen on top of that.

Is there any point in going to see a doctor? Can they do anything while it's in progress, rather than just giving me something to prevent one?

This trigger point is produced and perpetuated by keeping your shoulders up. Women who carry their purse on a shoulder strap are especially prone to having this trigger point and its symptoms.

Huh.