Before I get into this, let me make something clear: I am fully aware that almost everyone reading this will likely say I should have gone to the hospital sooner, but my fear of hospitals and the fact the COVID-19 restrictions meant I'd be left alone, which makes me incredibly anxious, admittedly impaired a lot of my judgment out of fear. I don't do well in hospitals as it is. Taking away my ability to have someone in the room with me is crippling to me and leaves me with a massive amount of anxiety. That being said, I'm gonna start this story more than a week before I went to the hospital, so you get an idea of what happened.

Things began roughly on the 18th. I'd gotten a migraine, and it was bothering me, so I took a Sumatriptan tablet to take care of it, and went to take a nap that night. Woke up and the headache was gone. No problem there, and the rest of my night was normal.

On the 19th, however, waking up the following morning produced another migraine. Spent most of the day with the lights off just to keep the migraine from getting too bad, since, at the time it was just a minor one, but its effectiveness only helped for a few hours. By mid afternoon, I took another tablet and took a nap, despite really not wanting to, but I could no longer focus. Woke up, hours later, but this time, the headache did not go all the way away. It remained a dull ache. I took a second tablet, keeping my room mostly dark for a good portion of the night. Eventually, the second pill was able to take care of the issue, and, by the time I was ready for bed that night, the headache was gone.

The 20th, I had no headache, thankfully, and had a normal day, which consisted of me mostly playing on my computer and working on my Halloween project stuff.

The 21st, I had a doctor appointment, which I had made on the 19th, when I was growing worried about the headaches. Went in and discussed the issue with my doctor, along with getting some other meds. I was advised to let her know if the headaches kept happening or got worse. The night came and, yet again, I had another migraine. Took another tablet, and, since this time the headache came closer to my normal bedtime, I just crashed, but I made the decision to call her again the following morning.

22nd comes and as soon as I wake up, I put in a call to let the doctor's office know what's going on. Unfortunately, she's busy with patients at the time, but I'm told the message will be passed to her. I understand that, because obviously she still has to work, so I didn't expect to hear form her the same day. Sadly, yet again, I ended up dealing with a migraine. This one was only a dull ache one, but nothing I did would stop it. Neither taking another pill, nor keeping the lights off helped. I pretty much dealt with it the entire day. Took a nap, woke up, but got no relief. Later in the night, I went to bed.

From the 23rd-25th, this was pretty much what I dealt with the entire time, still having not heard back from my doctor. I was, by this point, reaching the end of my tolerance. I didn't want to go to the hospital, knowing I'd likely be left alone there, but the pain was becoming too much. Late that evening, after talking to one of my friends, I took one more Sumatriptan tablet, trying to help with the headache I had, and laid down. My friend stayed on the phone and talked with me while I lay there, which was actually helping keep the focus off my head, until I eventually felt tired enough to sleep. In the course of our talking though, my friend begged, then later demanded I go to the hospital because he, much like myself (and my roommate) was now POSITIVE there was something wrong. I finally broke. I made him a promise. If I woke up from my nap, and had even the slightest bit of a headache, I would go to the ER with no fuss. My friend said he wished I would go immediately but eventually agreed to leave it at that. Well, I took the nap, and, big surprise, I still had the headache, and in fact, it was WORSE than when I had gone to bed before. I then got up, went to my roommate Henry's room, woke him and asked to be taken. This was roughly 2AM on the 26th at this point.

Part 2