tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559688075520321843.post-90995200861386107652008-03-26T22:19:00.004-04:002008-03-26T22:44:42.645-04:00After all of the shenanigans with my work injury, I made the difficult decision to leave. It just has taken so much longer for me to get my back back to normal (heh, back, back, clever, yes, moving on...), and it has gotten frustrating. While working with aggressive students with autism had never been a plan of mine, I am so thankful that I had that opportunity - especially while still dealing with NDPH. I'll be continuing to do my physical therapy exercises on my own, and hopefully I'll keep feeling better. <br />I already have a job offer from a local public high school to be a special education teaching asst, and I am excited about starting something new. I like change :-) I was so lucky that while I was at my previous job, my headaches didn't flare too badly. If the pain started to rise, I was usually too busy to be able to go take a rescue med, or only took 1-2 over the 6 month period.<br /> I'm still having the same feelings that I used to - I waver between periods of really wanting to take rescue meds when I need them and periods of not wanting to take anything. Some nights when I'm supposed to take my regular headache meds (that is a bit oxymoronic?), I feel like I am not even sure if the meds are even helping. I guess they are... but I am too afraid to go completely off them for fear that I will really spiral back downward to when I couldn't get off the couch (before I went to the new docs/had my hospital stay)... <br /> Restless Leg Syndrome is still being Super Obnoxious Syndrome, and makes me need to get up and move around when I should be sleeping, etc. The headache docs don't think it's bad enough to need/want to put me on RLS meds, however...Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576629637444934548noreply@blogger.com