The Birdcage "Bruise".

MS never ceases to perplex.  This morning I woke up feeling like I had a bruise on my forehead.  I couldn't remember doing anything that would cause it to feel that way.  After waking up, I realized that it was like wearing a birdcage hat, a sort of skewed bruising feeling going from the top of my head and down into my ear on the right side.

It hurt to wash my hair.  It hurt more to brush my hair.  The rest of the day was spent trying to keep from pushing my hair out of my face because I didn't dare put my headband on.  I'm trying to pretend it doesn't exist but, in reality, it feels like a dull ache - sort of.

I might be concerned if it wasn't like most of my other symptoms, completely on the right side like someone drew a line down the center of me.

We'll see how long this hangs on.  It's been about 15.5 hours now.  I guess 24+ hours is the magic number for calling it a clinical relapse.  On the other hand, the hormonal action is in full-swing and I'm sure that's attributing to all the weirdness of the last week.

This last week complete with the birdcage bruise and the couch cushion buffet is like a perverse wedding with a marriage of equally perverse symptoms that will surely breed more of the same.  I wonder what I can abstain from the keep the symptoms from multiplying.  Sorry, MS, this isn't working out.  We need to get a divorce immediately.  It's not me, it's you.