today is the release of MC KATO’s new album glissando. he will be performing at my house at a face to facebook launch party! seven o’clock and yes, you are invited! you can also pick up or download his songs on itunes today. yippee!
i have made airline reservations with expedia for my trip to tallahassee. i don’t see my dad very often, mostly when he goes to his class reunions for the lab school here in chicago. so i was really surprised when he asked me to visit. then i found out he’s been having a bit of a dust up with his wife barbara. yesterday, he called to give me the entire play by play over the course of an hour. he wants me to “observe” the situation. i’m thinking the most placid part of the weekend will be driving up to huntsville alabama to have dinner with jonathan boyd and his family.
my reaction to justin’s call was to go blind in my right eye. this happens about once a year and is the opening volley for a full on migraine. i start off by saying “oh, this has happened before, i know what it is” and twenty minutes later i’m crying and thinking i’m having a stroke. sometimes i get so overwrought that i call an ambulance, but yesterday i decided that if i was going to die it would be preferable to the embarrassment of e.m.t.s reassuring me that everything was going to be all right while jabbing me with needles–besides, there was ice on the front steps and one of them was bound to take a fall.
so i practiced self-medication: two ativan, six ibuprofen, and six pepcids. repeat as necessary. the purpose is not to restore my sight but to make me so relaxed i don’t care.
arlynnpresser 
February 2nd, 2011 at 4:02 am
Poor ArLynn, I used to get migraines once a month and only once did I go blind in an eye previous to the onset. Scary as hell, esp when the lizard in the ceiling of the opthalmologist’s office fell down the back of my dress.