Irene Adler
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LL,
I was going to just respond to your question in the youtube music thread, but it grew a little more verbose and way more personal than I intended, and I figured it ought to just have its own thread.
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However, that said, it's actually been a little frustrating because I've had to put most of my live performances on hold. The past several months I've been experiencing debilitating headaches that leave me unable to do anything for days. The doctors ran an mri about a month or so ago and found two problems with my brain that I need to see a neurologist for. Though my doctor said it probably isn't serious, he'd never heard of either problem. Regardless, it's left me incredibly unreliable. I'll book a show a month in advance and then get a headache that day and not be able to perform. I hate telling people I'll do something if I know there's a chance I might not be able to. On average (I've been keeping records of my headaches), out of every 5 or 6 days that I'm down, I'll have 1 or 2 good ones where I'm just a little dizzy and tired.
I looked the problems up and one is a clump of veins in the white matter of my brain, and they get enflammed and enlarged, causing pressure inside of my head, and thus: my headaches. The other is that a part of my midbrain is sending cerebral spinal fluid to parts of the brain that it's not supposed to go to, which is causing me to feel nauseous, faint, and dizzy almost all of the time, and occasionally, randomly pass out.
So, hence, I'm not booking a lot of new shows until the doctors can either find a medicine that actually works (Everything they've tried just leaves me high, tired, and still in too much pain) or fix the problem.
All in all, I probably could have told you boys about it sooner, but I haven't really told anyone. My family knows, my new husband knows, and a few close friends know. I'm not one for complaining. I try to keep everything I talk about chipper and happy, even when my life is rough. No one wants to read a bunch of whiney posts all of the time. But regardless, I just want to remember what it's like to wake up and feel normal for once. I'll have military insurance hopefully by next week (my husband is in the Air Force) and will then be able to start the road to getting better. It's also the main reason why I don't currently have my son. I've left him with Aaron back in Oklahoma until I recover. It was hard to do, but for the best. Alex is safer with his father and grandmother, than with me when I'm always unable to do even the simplest tasks. I couldn't live with myself if ever I passed out and he got hurt.
I'm not really sure how to end this post other than to say I adore you gents greatly and just to ask for prayers.
Thank you,
~Amy Jo
I was going to just respond to your question in the youtube music thread, but it grew a little more verbose and way more personal than I intended, and I figured it ought to just have its own thread.
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It's going so-so I've written a few new songs that I'm waiting to release on youtube. I just moved to the east coast, and so everything's kind of hectic at the moment. But I now have a macbook and will soon have some actual recording equipment that will allow me to run tracks, so I'm super excited about that.LL":r8y9wne7 said:
However, that said, it's actually been a little frustrating because I've had to put most of my live performances on hold. The past several months I've been experiencing debilitating headaches that leave me unable to do anything for days. The doctors ran an mri about a month or so ago and found two problems with my brain that I need to see a neurologist for. Though my doctor said it probably isn't serious, he'd never heard of either problem. Regardless, it's left me incredibly unreliable. I'll book a show a month in advance and then get a headache that day and not be able to perform. I hate telling people I'll do something if I know there's a chance I might not be able to. On average (I've been keeping records of my headaches), out of every 5 or 6 days that I'm down, I'll have 1 or 2 good ones where I'm just a little dizzy and tired.
I looked the problems up and one is a clump of veins in the white matter of my brain, and they get enflammed and enlarged, causing pressure inside of my head, and thus: my headaches. The other is that a part of my midbrain is sending cerebral spinal fluid to parts of the brain that it's not supposed to go to, which is causing me to feel nauseous, faint, and dizzy almost all of the time, and occasionally, randomly pass out.
So, hence, I'm not booking a lot of new shows until the doctors can either find a medicine that actually works (Everything they've tried just leaves me high, tired, and still in too much pain) or fix the problem.
All in all, I probably could have told you boys about it sooner, but I haven't really told anyone. My family knows, my new husband knows, and a few close friends know. I'm not one for complaining. I try to keep everything I talk about chipper and happy, even when my life is rough. No one wants to read a bunch of whiney posts all of the time. But regardless, I just want to remember what it's like to wake up and feel normal for once. I'll have military insurance hopefully by next week (my husband is in the Air Force) and will then be able to start the road to getting better. It's also the main reason why I don't currently have my son. I've left him with Aaron back in Oklahoma until I recover. It was hard to do, but for the best. Alex is safer with his father and grandmother, than with me when I'm always unable to do even the simplest tasks. I couldn't live with myself if ever I passed out and he got hurt.
I'm not really sure how to end this post other than to say I adore you gents greatly and just to ask for prayers.
Thank you,
~Amy Jo
