satyamev jayate

[raven]

Hello, flist. Apologies for being quite as crap as I have been being recently. I have a migraine. It's no good at all. I had about fifteen migraines in two weeks, and then on Thursday I started having a migraine that hasn't stopped yet. Three types of pills and a lengthy visit to out-of-hours haven't helped, and although everyone has been very nice (I tweeted about how much I heart NHS Direct - they retweeted me! I thought it was sweet) I am in pain and cranky and very, very worried about work.

(This is because last week I spent several days on my own without a supervisor, which was peaceful but boring as all-get-out, and I started getting very very frustrated; then he came back on Friday and gave me lots to do and it was interesting and started making me feel much less useless. And I already had several late mornings for my migraines - if I have to go off sick this week, I miss two interesting pieces of litigation and the run-up to my own mid-seat review, no. And it's so true that nothing to do makes you feel bad. I had just stopped feeling bad on that account and I'm so not in the mood for that again.)

So that's why I'm a little out of things. To try and keep my mind off things I am watching Satyameve Jayate on YouTube, which I am enjoying thoroughly - I always like it when actors whom I love because they are delectable are also likeable for reasons of being decent human beings, and really, Aamir Khan is - and it's kinda melodramatic and scripted but hey, where's any other show doing what it's doing. So. Y'all should watch it. (I've had no luck finding a version with English subtitles, but will post if I do.) Episode 1 deals with female foeticide, and episode 2, I am told, with child sexual abuse, so this is my trigger warning.

I'm also watching The Golden Girls and thinking about how much I love Bea Arthur. I thought about more Game of Thrones, but somehow I think it would not be so good for the headache.

Comments

[msilverstar]

If you find a subtitled version of Satyameve Jayate, I'd love a link, sounds really interesting.

[raven]

et voila!

[frith_in_thorns]

*hugs you gently*

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor you - a multi-day migraine sounds horrible, and not being able to work must make it worse. I hope you get better quickly and don't have to go off sick.

I have watched the first three episodes of The West Wing! You will be pleased to hear that I like it a lot.

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Oh jeez, multi day migraines have always sounded like my idea of absolute hell, even hours-long ones make me panicky and desperate that the pain will never stop and I will not be able to cope with it.

*hugs* get well soon honey.

[troyswann.livejournal.com]

Oh man *pets*

Having gone through just the same thing w/ migraines(status migrainosis w/ a hospital stay), wow, a long time ago now, and the misery of ergot-based drugs, through expensive imatrex and settling for weeping on the sofa instead, I can say that the only thing that has worked for me is feverfew. I'm not really--or at all--into herbal remedies--give me massive pharmaceuticals stat!--so I don't recommend an herbal remedy on the basis of any kind of principle beyond the fact that it's the only thing that gave me my life back by not only getting rid of the pain but by not being worse than the problem in terms of side effects. Anyway, migraines seem more idiosyncratic than other maladies in terms of effective treatments, but, just coalatin' data as they say on Firefly.

I really hope you are feeling better soon. I can honestly say I know your pain.

[tau_sigma]

Oh, that sucks. *hugs* I hope the migraines go as quickly as they appear to have come on! *loves*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

thaaaank you, honey. And thank you for the lovely rec of my fic you posted, I meant to thank you for that before!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Ohgod, me too! I love the show and oh my heart broke a little when Bea Arthur died, she was such an honest-to-God modern-day HERO. Although my migraine has few good points at least no one can blame me for lying on the couch all day and watching The Golden Girls. :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

thank you, my dear. I have had some respite today, which has been very nice.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

thank you! :)

(Also, I saw you had answered my medical physics question! I am not doing well right now with text-on-screen, but I look forward to reading it. :P)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

oh honey, weeping on the sofa, that's a thing, isn't it. I wept on the sofa at NHS Direct all day Saturday, it sucked so much. I'm really sorry you had to go through this too, but also selfishly glad of your empathy. I have four lots (four! seriously, NHS, seriously) of massive pharmaceuticals to try. If they do not help, I will certainly give feverfew a try, I think I can get it over-the-counter. Thank you, my dear.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I went to work today! it was a TRIUMPH!

(well actually it was a frizzy-haired shamble. but also TRIUMPH!)

Yay for the West Wing! Yay for The Crackpots and These Women, you have that to come yay. And also Celestial Navigation. And What Kind of Day Has It Been. And Noel. And I am going to shut up now and stop FLAILING.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

On the subject of Betty White, this tweet (https://twitter.com/#!/GeorgeTakei/status/190420232324644864) pretty much made my year.

What I love/hate about TGG is that, well, it wouldn't be made today. Isn't that awful? This late-80s-early-90s network show starring and written by women, and their concerns and their sexualities (how much do I love that they tease Blanche about her sex life, but they don't judge her for it) and the HuffPo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/the-golden-girls-and-gay-marriage_n_1506091.html) reposted this bit and it was just so depressing that it was twenty years ago and we've made so little progress in that time.