Teleidoscope

Tue, Feb 20, 2007

Dry Wind

Posted at 11:42 pm MST to Miscellaneous

In the seasonal flow of permutations of wind and snow, we are now in a phase of warm, very dry chinook winds (leading up to the next predicted snow on Friday).

They are melting the snow and trying to dry out the morass of gluey mud that is theoretically my driveway.

They are also stirring up dust and doing nasty things to my sinuses. At least, at Colorado's altitude, I don't generally get full-blown migraines developing from my sinus headaches

I'm a little surprised that I didn't have worse problems with migraines when I was in Boston. Air conditioned bedrooms make a big difference, I think: I never slept in places that were air conditioned when I lived in New England before I first moved out here. And the only times I went anywhere noisy and crowded this past year in Boston were subway rides short enough not to trigger anything.

I think that Advil heads off migraines better than aspirin ever did in the old days, too, or even the prescription pain killers i was given. It won't stop a migraine that's fully arrived, but it seems to knock down the trigger if I catch it soon enough.

When I was in highschool my mother used to take me to 6 AM mass in the summer (the rest of the family went to church later) because I couldn't take the heat and crowding. I passed out once, when the family was still all attending at the same time, and my father pretty much dragged me out of the church to get me into the fresher air.

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