Yeah the giants are hilarious to fight, especially if you can get them to fight other things

I'm playing on the difficulty one above normal (adept?) and its actually a lot harder...I die all the time but I like games that way.
Anyway those cats shred me instantly. I usually just run away or if I'm lucky Lydia will distract it and soak up damage while I hit it a million times...it still takes forever for me to kill a single one.
Honestly the only reason "I" was able to beat that dragon is because he flew away to a nearby ruins after deciding that making me quickload 12 times was no longer entertaining, and there he started roasting 3 frost trolls.
So I ran down the face of this huge mountain I was on, got within range of him murdering the shit out of those trolls, and got a lucky stun on him. He fell to the ground and got FUCKED UP. It was really funny.
But I could not have done it on my own. The only reason I was able to even survive is because I've been raising my restoration, so whenever he strafed me the heavy armor would let me live with like 2HP and I would just be holding down the heal buttons the entire time. Dragons are no joke in this game.
Oh, also when I fast traveled to the place I fought the dragon, his skeleton fell on me. For no reason, just right out of the air. I died.
Thank god for quicksaves.