I saw a woman at the grocery store this morning doing what looked like adjusting the volume on her hearing aid and found myself wishing I could turn down the volume of my hearing too. My body is so sensitive to lights, sounds, smells and movement, especially when I'm in the middle of a string of migraines like I am now. I can hold still when movement is causing me pain and I can use hats, sunglasses and my eye lids to cut down on light but there isn't much I can do to help with sounds.
I certainly can and do avoid loud noises when possible. I don't go for fireworks, I keep the volume low on the TV at home and such, but there just isn't anything I can do about screaming kids at the grocery store, or loud intercoms, or traffic noise or loud public areas....which is why I got to wishing there was a mechanism to control the intake of sounds.
And if I'm wishing here, I'll also wish that I could do the same for smells. I don't know if this is because of my migraines and the many sensitives associated with it, but I have been cursed with a really good sense of smell. Cursed because it is one of many things that can trigger or make my migraines worse. And when I say that I have a really good sense of smell I mean unusually good. There are people like my mom who just don't have a great sense of smell and there are people like my husband who have a good sense of smell, and then there are people like me who can smell the air freshener in the car next to me with my windows up. My husband is always telling me that I should capitalize on my sense of smell. He is certain I can make a living as a sniffer for a food company or something. I might be willing to entertain that kind of an idea if odors didn't cause me so many problems with my head.
Scratch that...if I'm going to wish here, I'm going to wish I didn't have these crazy migraines that have caused my senses to be sources of pain. That's the dream.
On a completely different note, it was one year ago today that I cut out meat and simple sugars/carbohydrates from my diet. When I think about it, I'm a bit surprised that I've been able to maintain this big of a change. It really has required a great deal of work on my part and a huge shift in thinking and behavior patterns that I had developed in my 30 plus years alive.
