I like to give people the benefit of the doubt the first time. I definitely would when a migraine is involved because I get them.
There are different migraine intensities and they affect people differently. Some they last a couple hours, some a couple days. Mine last a few hours and it's pure hell.
You do get a warning. With me I get a rush of feeling very warm and then it starts messing with my vision. I can only see a small area of what i'm focusing on - making it very difficult to dial a phone or look at any light. It's hard to describe. Soon after the pain, fever, nausea, etc. start and the only thing that helps is a dark room with soft music.
Picture this: You going about your day as usual feeling fine. Then you feel a warm rush with your body temp going up, then you can't see out of the corner of your eyes. Then you can't see anything but a small area and any light causes pure pain and discomfort. From a few minutes to an hour later you feel nauseous, cold chills, dry mouth, and the sensation that someone is driving a spike into your skull. This continues for quite a while. That nice down filled pillow feels like a slab of concrete. The light coming in from the side of the curtains hurts. Sometimes you have to rush to the toilet to throw up. You go from being freezing with chills to sweating. Eventually, if you can stop thinking about your discomfort, you can fall asleep and sleep the rest of it off.
On what could be considered a good note, as the migraine subsides, I get VERY horny. Even before all the pain is gone, it seems all the blood is going to one body part.
It very well could be she has a pill that knocks her out. i'm going to have to ask my doctor for that one. Anything else I've tried doesn't work.
During a migraine, everything else takes a back seat in priority. However, Brooke is right. Getting on the phone to cancel right at the onset would have been the cool thing to do. Perhaps she thought the pill would take care of it and maybe it's new medicine for her and she didn't know it would knock her out. Some people can take an injection and be fine in 20 minutes. Some people like me keep trying new and different meds in hopes of finding something that works for them.
I'm not trying to be a white night. I hope she wasn't just using a migraine as an excuse. However, I've been on the side of not being taken seriously on the severity of the way I was feeling. "Oh so you have a headache, take some advil and suck it up." It's not just a bad headache.
Well, this turned out to be a way too long of a post on migraines. I hope I don't get one from all this typing.
All in all, cutting her a little slack would be sympathetic. As far as what I would expect in regards to making it up to me, I would be satisfied with a little extra time or a little extra service. I would consider a discounted rate very generous and would probably ensure a return visit.
I Fell Asleep with a Migraine or Is That the Turnip Truck I Should Get On?
Merry Christmas NB!!! I'm sure you'll be able to catch a Nikki special sometime
