I know I posted a pic of Freja the other day, but she really deserves another shout out today! Last night, right before I went to sleep, I felt the symptoms of a migraine coming on. As any migraine sufferer knows, time is all important in stopping these things before they take hold, or life is impossible once they kick in. Freja proved to be a very special kitty shortly after I laid down to sleep.
Many of my contacts have heard about how my cat, Squeegee, used to alert me when I had a migraine starting. He would stand outside my bedroom door and squeek and howl incessantly until I got up and took my migraine meds, and then he would leave. When he first started doing it, I just thought he was griping about something he got for dinner that he wasn't happy with or just wanted attention, and he drove me nuts with his yowling! It didn't take long to figure out why he was doing it, though, as each time a migraine was coming on, and he was alerting me to the changes going on in my body that I was unaware of until I woke. Squeegee's intervention made it possible for me to overcome many of the migraines before they took hold, and that allowed me to get up and go to work the next day! Sadly, Squeeks passed away on October 19, 2015.
After Squeegee died, and even for a few years before, I seldom got the kind of headaches that used to incapacitate me. Still, since the symptoms of nausea, light sensitivity, heat intolerance, and noise intolerance played in, I was concerned that I no longer had my alert kitty to wake me before it was too late to alleviate the awful symptoms that I still sometimes had.
I got Ragnar and Freja as kittens. They were about six months old when I took them in. Freja was always the yacky one, but I never noticed a pattern until recently. Squeeks was still alive when I brought them home, but passed about one month later. As youngsters, the two rowdy cats were mostly playing or sleeping, and it has taken nearly 3 years to realize that Freja seems to have the same ability that Squeegee had to predict my migraines.
Last night, after I laid down, Freja was right at my bedroom door, meowing away loudly and even pawing the door to get my attention. She seldom bothers me when I'm sleeping, and I did notice that I was getting the migraine aura, which is for me lights and images that appear to be in front of my eyes, not in my mind, and can be quite colorful and electrical looking! Freja was alerting me, and this time, I thanked her. She left the door right after that, and I went to sleep relieved that if the headaches ever do come back the way they once were, my new little alert kitty will be able to warn me in advance if I pay attention to her! What a treasure this little one is! Besides having an adorable face and sweet disposition, God made her capable of helping me with something that can be horribly disabling. Now I have even more reason to love her!
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