and then it rained.

So yesterday, as I said, all I wanted to do was put an ice pack on my head and lie down. I did this (after eating far too much lunch), and slept for about four hours, getting up only once for purposes relating to having eaten far too much lunch, and then was awake for a couple of hours before I went to bed, and had no trouble falling asleep (though, frustratingly, I woke up at two-hour intervals throughout the night).

In the couple hours I was awake between the nap of extreme unconsciousness and going to bed, it rained.

So based on the past several months' (not to say years') worth of experience, that's a shocking correlation between a rapid drop in atmospheric/barometric pressure and my becoming suddenly droopy and utterly useless. I feel like I'm coming down with something, I mean to say, and I have to lie down now now now, and a storm blows in, and then I feel better. Or I get on a plane, and by the time we land maybe as little as an hour later, I am totally exhausted. You're not supposed to get jet lag when you fly from DC to Boston in the middle of the afternoon, but I do. Of course it's not possible to sleep soundly on a long flight; but I always sleep suddenly on a short flight as well; which means I have not stepped off a plane without feeling groggy in ages.

Yesterday was the final data point, because I had really been feeling fine, and then bam, so this morning I called the doctor. When she calls back in response to my message I will tell her that I have for a long time observed a relationship between rapid drops in air pressure and my inability to stay alert or even keep my eyes open. I don't know if there is anything to be done about this. I happen to know that my sinuses are wicked narrow, particularly on the right side, but I don't know if having them roto-rootered is a solution; their walls are not unhealthily thick, I mean to say, they're not swollen, just the open space is teeny. Maybe I'm wrong about that. We'll see. Maybe careful attention to the weather forecast and a sudafed when it's supposed to rain will do something helpful. I genuinely have no idea, but I can't go on as I've been, because it's getting worse.