Waking up with a migraine is a mixed bag. At least you are already in bed to try and sleep it off, but if it's well established it can be too late to respond and you are stuck with it. I took the tablets but this one lingered till early evening, not fully incapacitating, but a constant companion. At least work was distracting.
"Migraine is the third most common disease in the world (behind dental caries and tension-type headache) with an estimated global prevalence of 14.7% (that’s around 1 in 7 people)" (Migraine Trust https://www.migrainetrust.org). I suffer from chronic migraine, which affects approximately 2% of the world population. The fact that there are 190,000 migraine attacks every day in the UK is cold comfort.
Mind you, President Trump has his own headaches, and he spent a good 76 minutes berating the main culprits - the press at a press conference called at short notice. He did so in good humour, and with a spattering of indifference to the issues with Russia, anger at the leaks in his own administration which are apparently the media's fault, support for his incoming, existing and outgoing team and Melania, He also contributed his own fake news, such as his government running like a well oiled machine,
that he had the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan (Clinton, Bush Senior and Obama all did better), Hilary Clinton giving 20% of America's Uranium to Russia (Russia bought a majority stake in a Canadian Company that accounts for about 20 percent of U.S. uranium production capacity,this is NOT 20 percent of existing uranium. It could also be argued that Russia had been giving the US uranium, as the United States and Russia have exchanged enriched and raw uranium for years.
But this evening/night, the most striking personal impression from news in the US, UK and Germany is, that his often rambling speech was not as impactful as others - we are becoming inured to Trump. A Spiegel article downgrades him from not being able to be a President to not even being able to be a dictator, and worrying more about the chaos if he goes.
Perhaps tomorrow's papers will prove me wrong.
Perhaps the one unintended consequence is - the amount of material he will be providing to satirists around the world. Saturday Night Live will have a field day.
At least my bread and rolls came out well from the oven just after midnight. Headache gone, now bright eyed and bushy tailed, I just hope I can get ot sleep
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