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After the events in Part 13, I started feeling like my regular self. Life went on.  We moved a few times and ended up in New Hampshire.  I have two more stories to share with you and then we’ll be done.  Hopefully, there will be no more to tell in Part 16+  although I’m sure more medical travails await me in the future.  Thanks for hanging in there for the whole story.

Between 2002-2005 life went on.  Brenda and I had another child, Melissa and we were enjoying life up in NH. I had built up my private teaching to about 60-70 students a week and was playing in a great band every weekend. Things were going pretty good but there was one thing that was plaguing me and that was those damn headaches.  If you remember back to earlier in the story I told you about my headaches after the brain tumor surgery. They would come about once a week and totally wipe me out.  Nothing would get rid of them that I had tried.  All I could do was take Tylenol PM, fall asleep and 6 hours later they were usually gone.

Well during 2002-2005 the headaches increased.  They  happened more often and they became even more painful.  I am not exaggerating when I say that in 2003-2005 I think I had a headache about 98% of the time.  Sometimes it would only be slight but many other times I would be gripping my head and unable to handle it.  I remember countless times that I took my girls to the park.  They would be playing on the slides and swings and yelling for me to come join them and I would just be sitting on the bench holding my head.  As the headaches got worse so did my personality.  I  always tried to be nice and loving but I remember so many times where I would just snap and yell at the girls. Not because of anything they did but just because of the pain I was feeling.

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