Traveling with a Migraine: A Turbulent Journey from Rexburg to Phoenix

Today I am grateful that migraine medication can be picked up from any Walgreens location worldwide as long as you have a prescription. Shout out to the Walgreens in Chubbuck, Idaho. Have you ever flown with a migraine? Because I did that today and I gotta tell you, not a good experience. I kind of brought this on myself. We did a quick 36 hour turnaround from Phoenix to Rexburg to do some wedding planning with my daughter and I am telling you when we flew home this is the smallest airport that I’ve ever flown out of in my entire life. I think the Delta flies out of this tiny airport. Literally this is it. This is the whole airport. Just for the record that’s not the Delta plane. This is the Delta plane. When I go to Rexburg I usually drive but this was a very last minute trip and we did not have time to make the 16 hour trip there and the 16 hour trip back. That’s by car. It’s only like a three hour. And somebody also is there a farmer out there? Why are the fields circular? I’ve wondered that my entire life. I said I had a migraine. It was so turbulent between Pocatello and Salt Lake City that I actually cried when we landed. We got stuck on the plane because they had to get a gate agent to unlock the door and then in the Salt Lake airport we had to walk the two miles to the next gate. It wasn’t two miles it was like 20 gates but if you’ve been to Salt Lake if you know you know. And because our flights were so last minute my husband and I were three rows apart on the plane. And this flight was also so turbulent that the flight attendants had to stay seated the entire time which meant no ginger ale for me. By this point the medicine had kicked in but my stomach still felt like it was completely upside down. Because of the full flight we had checked our bags in Pocatello and it literally took 20 minutes between my bag and my husband’s bag to come off the plane. It was a good trip and while the medicine took the headache away the stomach is still upside down. And I have school tomorrow so good night.