Things are starting to look up again.
My husband made an excel spreadsheet for me to keep track of migraines. However, its become pretty obvious that the stress is a major trigger. I'm working on trying to just stop whatever I am doing or thinking about whenever I catch my headache starting to come on.
The semester is wrapping up and although I am really struggling to write my paper, I am surviving. I'll get there eventually.
I had meetings with 2 of my professors and it was amazingly encouraging. As I had thought, it was the orals which had killed me - there was nothing in the writtens which I couldn't have explained away in the orals if I had not frozen. As much as it sucks that one day put me a year behind - I think its for the best. I think I've said this before, but its worth reminding myself...if I had passed, I probably wouldn't have taken my health seriously. And I NEED to take care of myself for once.
There were a lot of positives about the meetings and apparently there were some faculty who really wanted to pass me (including one of the most challenging professors in the department). Plus, even the one professor who was most concerned about my brain blank does not think I'm flake. He just thought I wasn't quite where I need to be in his particular specialty. I can handle that. The professor I want to be my advisor actually said that she had no issues with her area of specialty and that I shouldn't even worry about it for the next time. This is great news since her area of specialty is the area I want to go into.
All and all...I wish I could just fastward to a week from now when this semester is over. But I'll survive until then.
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