Like I need a hole in the head

It is inevitable that Little Dubya will inherit various traits from both mother and father.  Don't ask me to go into how genetic traits work or how they are passed on, let's just agree that it happens.  I took biology 23 years ago, you think it stuck?  Obviously there are some traits I hope he inherits and others I hope didn't make it through the sieve.  From me, I hope he gets my razor-sharp wit and my expressive blue eyes.  From my wife, I hope he is as handsome as she is beautiful and just as patient and thoughtful.  I pray he doesn't get my body-type - I'm a bottle of Jack and one ring-ding away from 1970s Jim Morrison and I have the metabolism of a sloth.

But what I hope didn't make it through the selection process most of all are the migraines I have suffered with most of my life.  At 2 1/2 I was diagnosed with juvenile migraines.  For those of you that get them, imagine that pain for a toddler.  For those that don't, imagine the worst hangover you ever had and magnify it, say, 50 times.  I went to a neurologist and had the requisite EEGs and other tests just to make sure it was nothing worse.  It turned out, I had been blessed with these by my father, who had them as well.  The "juvenile" tends to be a misnomer for some, however.  Apparently, as you go through the tumult that is puberty, they start to lessen in frequency and eventually go away.  Not so in my case or my father's (although his have become maybe once or twice a year now, if that).  I still get them -- not the once a week or so that I enjoyed until I was 16 or 17, but frequently enough that I dread them still.  What's worse, I have no definitive triggers and very rarely do I experience the aura that serves as a precursor.  I can get them at any time, anywhere.  But I can cope with most of them now, though I occasionally do get the one that knocks me on my ass.  I would not wish these on anyone and certainly do not want my son to have to experience them.

You're probably asking yourself why I bring this up now.  Well, I just took two Excedrin Migraine and I am far away from the refuge of my bed.