So, it’s been a few weeks since I have posted and I am sure you are wondering why, well I was having some health issues so I put this blog on the back burner while I dealt with it and the anxiety that came with it. It turns out I am fine and all the testing that I went through came back normal as can be.

I was having migraines for the first time of my life that affected my vision. It was scary as I had never had a migraine before and never associated a migraine before with temporary vision loss/blind spots in one eye. It was a scary thing to suddenly not be able to focus, read, and then to have shimmering lights in your field of vision. They lasted about 30 minutes and then at the end I would have a massive pounding headache for hours with little relief from ibuprofen or Tylenol. I saw a doctor about and apparently I am a prime candidate to start developing migraines at my age, whatever that means.

I don’t know if it was the stress of the plasectomy and the intensity, or if it was just a fluke. The doctor said that the lack of sleep, stress, certain foods can also trigger a migraine. I have a pretty good idea on what caused it. I used to be a heavy diet soda drinker up until a little over a year ago, I loved it. If the soda had to come from a bottle or can it would have been Diet Mountain Dew. However, if it were a fountain drink, it didn’t matter; Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke, Diet Mountain Dew, etc. I loved them all. I picked up drinking soda again when I started delivering pizza again, a big liter of Diet Pepsi straight from the fountain machine twice during a shift and then it poured (pun intended) over to the home. 2 liter bottles of Diet Mountain Dew gone within two days. This I believe led me to have three migraines within the month of May. I stopped drinking soda on May 28th after some research of what was going on before I saw the doctor, knock on wood, I haven’t had another since.

So here is to moving on with the plasectomy and focusing in and living life.