Last night while I was drafting my article, I felt a sudden pain in my head. Yes, migraine was knocking. I tried my best to still continue with my article. I do not know why there was a sudden attack. There was no more sun and my room lights were not that bright. I was so nauseous and then I realized that last night was the time that I was brought to the hospital last year. I checked my Instagram to check but I posted days after. I verified it by checking my email because I know that I got 100 subscribers on my Youtube channel when I was brought to the emergency room. True enough it was June 25.
Have you felt being sick for a certain month of the year? It has happened to me most of the times. When June started I have already thought about my hospitalization last year. I have said to myself that it was my anniversary. Even mentioned to @bbghitte and @Firenze that June and July are my most critical health months. I remember when I was still working in Makati for a 12 hour shift, I was already trembling in cold because of high fever but I still needed to report for work because there were no available managers who can relieve me for that day. I had my duty inside the kitchen because it was a little warm for me and just sat there during my entire shift doing nothing. Of course I had my co-manager's consent so that she can back me up of in case our area manager or the higher people in the head office would visit the store and see me in that condition. For a person with a normal temperature, the kitchen is the hottest place that can be. But for me it was just enough to keep me a little warm even when I already had a thick jacket on me. It was my highest fever that I had in my entire life. It even surpassed my body temperature when I had dengue fever when I was in elementary. I cannot remember when this happened but it was either late June or early July. All I know is that I have already tendered my resignation and July 15 was my last day. A year after that was when I had my first surgery for gallstones and it fell on late July.
If there is a song Wake Me Up When September Ends, mine would be wheb June and July ends. LOL. I know that stressing about my health or what would happen to me is not good. However I could not get it off my mind especially if I got sick during that time of the year. They say, "whatever the mind conceives, the body can achieve". Probably because I am thinking that those 2 months are my critical health months. But even if I do not think about it, I feel like my body is signalling something. Just like what happened to me recently. I started to have palpitations during the start of this month. Got to blame the coffee for that. Since summer I had always drank iced coffee, iced latte, iced white chocolate mocha, soy iced white chocolate mocha, iced black and white mocha and iced latte with coffee jelly. I have released the inner barista in me. Black coffee is said to help with my migraine but too much can also trigger it. I cannot eat or drink chocolate because I have observed that it is also a migraine trigger for me. Coffee was the only thing that can help me beat the scorching heat of the sun. I do not drink it everyday but last week I started to feel that my heart was beating so fast. To think that I have a very light heart beat. I have a normal pulse rate but some healthcare professionals would often say that it was hard for them to hear my heart beat. So I refrained myself from drinking coffee.
Yesterday it was hot but I managed by not drinking any iced drinks. Then around 10PM I started to feel that knock on my left side of my head and around my left eye. It hurts even more every hour that it made me hard to focus on my article. It was very unusual because it was not that hot in the evening and I do not know what triggered my migraine. I placed a liniment oil on my left side so that I can finish what I was drafting. Before I sleep, I even massaged my head and eye and the pressure point between my thumb and index finger. It somehow relieved and I was able to sleep. However I woke up with that pain again so I instantly made a cup of black coffee to start my day. It did work but if it did not, I would have had to drink my anti-migraine medicine.
Other than my hospitalization and fever, there were also some minor injuries like cuts or burns during those months. I really do not know what is with June and July that makes me so vulnerable. There are times when I feel like June and July are my unlucky months. I know that I really should not be thinking about it but whenever I would have a fever or any discomfort, it is when I would realize that it is that time of the year. Coincidence? I do not know but I am really more cautious during these months. Though there are times that I also get sick other than June and July. We do have our yearly blood chemistry tests but it is only limited to the important ones like sugar, uric acid, cholesterol, triglycerides and other for the liver. I know SGPT is for the liver as I asked that with my cousin who was a doctor years ago because that time I had a lot of high in my blood chem results. LOL. Thankfully mine was always normal or close to normal. There was just that one year when it all went up except for the sugar. I think it was around the time when I have finally moved on and accepted what life throws at me.
If only I have enough money, I would really want an annual general check up for me and my parents. Do you do a general check up? From head down to your toes? Or just the regular blood chem tests? One of my sister-in-law's uncle had a general check up a couple of years ago prior to flying in one country as it was required. It was only then when he found out that he has cancer of the bones. For his family they said that it was a blessing in disguise. They weren't able to travel as he underwent some treatments. Few months after he died. It was the second time that I have heard the importance of having an annual general check up. I do not know how much it costs for a general check up but it is one thing that I must prepare for in the future.
Anyhow, sometimes I just want to consult a feng shui expert to ask if those months are really my unlucky months. Do you believe in feng shui? I think I might have asked about it on one of my articles that I published before, do you believe in astrological signs? There are times that I do believe in those because sometimes what has been forecasted had happened to me. But then again I know that everything happens for a reason. I just really hope and pray that I would not have to experience being hospitalized again (except if I am about to give birth. LOL). In short nothing major illness in the future and the same goes for you. Health is really wealth. As much as I want to eat healthy, I still lack that self-discipline to start over again. Though my heart was already telling my mind to start this July. I hope my body and mind would cooperate.
P.S. my lead image was my IV fluid and pain reliever after my operation.
It's good to know that you are managing your migraine. It's interesting that it occurs on the same month. I used to get sick once a year around those same times, June-July, sometimes later around August-September, the kind of flu that will really make you stay in bed for a week or two. That went on for a while but it stopped. Thankfully, since then I haven't had that kind of illness. I rarely go to the doctor or have a checkup. Praying for your good health :)