Oh my, Judy, are you alright? How utterly awful? Is there anyway you can keep a cellphone attached to you at all times (perhaps around your neck?), and call a neighbour or 911 in case your emergency alert system doesn't work? That's just so frightening. I'm so glad you're OK.

Cheryl,
I'm glad you're feeling better too. I also get horrific headaches whenever I get LP's so the last few times, we've done a blood patch in anticipation of the headache and I've done just fine. The first LP I had was so awful that I literally had to crawl to the loo from bed and then had to keep my head down the entire time I was on the commode. I was pretty new to the states and was living in NYC and was scared to death as it was. Five minutes after I had the blood patch test, I sat up and walked out of hospital on my own volition. I've had 2 since and would never have one now without having a blood patch done at the same time.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone. It's thundering like mad here. Perhaps we'll get some much needed rain.

All the best,
Chris