Desperation

From Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away by Jennette Fulda:

I’d been to all the traditional doctors listed in my health care directory, so now it was time to take a detour into alternative healing. I looked oddly at people who talked about disruptions in my energy flow, but I didn’t have much left to explore. There were dozens of items remaining on my imaginary checklist titled “Things that probably won’t cure the headache, that I will spend thousands of dollars on anyway just to make sure.”