Archive for May, 2008
For a reference point
In general, headache sufferers are worse off than people who have arthritis, roughly similar to those who have congestive heart failure severe enough to interfere with walking up and down stairs and only slightly better than people with AIDS… From All in My Head
Election 2008
Is it reasonable … to assume that leaders who are willing to abuse signing statements, withhold information from Congress, make secret decisions, lie to the American people, use fake evidence to justify a preemptive war, torture prisoners, tap people’s phones, open their mail and e-mail, break into their houses, and now simply ignore Congress altogether […]
Loneliness
With headaches, you’re alienated from yourself because your pain is so bad, and you don’t want to be there. At the same time, you’re alienated from everybody else because you have headaches: “I don’t want to go and be with people.” If I’m on meds, then I’m kind of spacey and can’t quite communicate my […]
Berry Go Round 5
The 5th edition of Berry Go Round is being hosted at A Neotropical Savanna this month. A Neotropical Savanna is one of my favorite blogs, so you should definitely go check it out. But if you’re too lazy, I’ve got the best bits right here: Mutant! I love questions about why a particular morphology exists. […]
What is it?
Thernstrom described chronic pain as “a pathology of the nervous system that produces abnormal changes in the brain and spinal cord,” meanwhile basically sucking up feel-good seratonin and leading to chemically induced depression and anxiety. From All in My Head
photo365
So I officially give up on taking a picture every single day for a year. Instead, I resolve to just take more pictures.
Movies!
So between it being summer and me being brain dead from migraines, I’ve watched a few movies lately. My extensive reviews: The new Indiana Jones movie – aliens? really? 8 Femmes – musical, 1950s, French, whodunnit: camp AND a little twisted. Best movie ever. 25th Hour – I feel like it could have been way […]