Migraine and Legos

Thomas has continued to have a headache and varying degrees of dizziness the past few days and today started out much the same.  His dizziness was a little less in the morning than it had been and his headache was also a bit improved by mid morning. 

My brother, Uncle Greggy, is letting Thomas borrow his childhood Lego sets to build.  There's castles, pirates ships and so much more.  Its so nice for Thomas to have a sit down activity that he enjoys to do.  Cassie and Chris have been helping to sort out some of the sets.

Around 3:15 p.m. I asked him how he was and he said he was okay.  He was talking and showing me Legos he had built.  I then decided to do a quick vacuum.  As I was vacuuming, I saw him come to the kitchen sink with a wash cloth and get it wet.  I asked him if that was for his head and he said "yes".  I finished vacuuming and found him in his room in his bed with the cloth on his head.

I asked him what was going on, he rolled onto his stomach and said his head hurt REALLY bad.  I asked him when he'd last eaten and he didn't know just that he had had yogurt.  I asked if he'd like a grilled cheese and he said okay.  I quick made one and brought it to him.  He took one bite and said "I think I'm going to be sick".  I had him take his shirt off and I rubbed coconut oil with deep relief all over his back, legs and feet.  He calmed down and I kept rubbing.  Joe came home from Mackenzie's lacrosse and we got some Tylenol.  It was very hard to get him up enough to suck down the Tylenol.  He said it hurt way to much to lift his head.  I continued rubbing his back and a few minutes later he was fast asleep snoring.  From what I've read about childhood migraines this one fit the bill.  His headache has never been like that before with the sudden onset and nausea.  Up to this point, even though the ER doctors on Mother's day had said it might be migraines, I never thought he'd had a migraine.  Now I am pretty sure he did, but what caused it?  He's had headaches for years in varying intensity.  This one was AWFUL!  I NEVER EVER EVER want to see him like that.  It was super scary and I felt awful that he was in such pain.  I am wondering if it has something to do with the new supplements from the Naturopath.  I am hoping it is a good something and maybe somehow in all this craziness it is actually working stuff out of his system.

He slept for about an hour.  When he woke up he didn't even know he'd been asleep.  He said he wondered how his headache had gone from a #9 to a #2.  He promptly started playing Legos in the living room like nothing had happened.  He was still to nauseous to eat the dinner I planned.  So I made him some Gluten Free Pancakes instead and he enjoyed those.

 
I am praying that we are making progress. Its going to be awhile before we feel comfortable planning anything that involves his participation, which is a bummer as far a summer vacations go.  We had a lot of neat trips planned around some lacrosse tournaments that Chris is participating in so I am guessing we will be doing some rearranging.  I can't wait to get my baby back; happy and healthy all the time!!