I try not to spend too much time feeling sorry for myself, because it’s such a total waste of energy, but sometimes it’s a challenge.  This weekend has been one of those times.  Not only do I have a terrible cold, complete with racking cough and raw, painful sore throat, but I’m also having an intense spell of the ever-delightful–and delightfully named–idiopathic stabbing headache.  Ordinarily a round of these intermittent ice-pick jabs will last less than an hour, and I usually go more days without them than with.  This time, however, I’ve been having them in the same spot behind my left ear for more than 48 hours.  I’ve been popping painkillers like candy, alternating acetaminophen and ibuprofen every three hours for maximum coverage.  Mostly it’s keeping the pains at bay, but those that slip through are excruciating, and heaven help me if I delay a scheduled dose by even fifteen or twenty minutes.  Like I said, delightful.