Another check-in, and this one's a good 'un!
I get chronic migraines (15 or more a month). The doc started me on a monoclonal antibody for migraines 20 July. Since then I've only had 3.
But it gets better. The first 2 were within a week after that first shot. Since the monoclonal antibody's job is to kill off a certain cell that leads to migraines, I figure it hadn't finished it's little execution squad duties. Removing those 2 (that first week), I've had 1 migraine in 2 months!
There is a portion of the migraine called the prodrome. This is the migraine before you feel any pain, and can be for 24 hours, or more, before the pain hits. One of the biggest symptoms of the prodrome is fatigue. Since starting the new drug, I have felt so much better, I can only describe it as a miracle. I think I've spent the better part of the last ten years in prodrome. I've been getting up earlier, getting out and working on the garage, the yard, etc. I swear I feel like I'm 25 again (and I'm not sure I felt like I was 25 when I
was 25!).
So, to the progress...
Before I can get back on any projects, I have to get the garage up and running. When we bought the house, the inside of the garage had been half converted, half gutted, to create... Hell, I don't know what the guy had in mind. In any case, he'd done a poor job of blocking up one of the garage doors and the original entrance door. Not wanting to spend too much on a new roll up door, I removed the one from the right side of the garage and installed it in the newly reopened location, and built a set of barn doors for the right side opening. I've opened up the entrance door area and installed a new door there. I've also installed shelving at the back of the garage. Along with all of that, I've been out in the yard cutting up branches that hung too low, cutting down the overwhelming number of crappy little trees growing out behind the garage, and burning all the detritus.
This is what I started with:
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A pile of block removed from the door area:
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The doorway is opened!
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Shelving!
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Lots more to do, though. Up and at 'em!