Archive for June, 2016
Level 3 pain
Pain scales don’t do a great job describing functionality. My head hardly hurts today, but I’m so weak I can’t sit up straight and I have to prop my phone on a pillow. I can type a little something, but since everything is moving I can’t make sense of rows of data or graphs or […]
Not Tonight examines how migraine can simultaneously disrupt so many lives and continue to be questioned and trivialized by the culture at large. Why do some kinds of pain generate deep sympathy and hefty economic investment, while other kinds are ignored? Why do we privilege and even praise some sorts of pain, while others are […]
Life and Migraine (2005)
Life and Migraine (2005) Looks like there’s already a documentary about migraine I can watch while I’m waiting for Out of My Head to get made. But I couldn’t find it on Amazon and canistream.it didn’t even know about it. Where oh where can I get it??
People tell me I’m smart but
I’m actually trembling from pain/weakness and simultaneously feeling guilty about not working.
Finding Dory has a fantastic message about disability
crystallinerosequartz: For all the shit that’s going on with Me Before You, and the assisted suicide and the general message that disabled people are happier killing themselves, Finding Dory had the exact opposite message. Dory learns to grapple with her short term memory loss. She’s never cured of it, it never goes away, but she […]
rexisky: George RedHawk This captures how the world moves during some of my auras.
kaldicuct: rainboeninja: kaldicuct: moribunny: earlpostsaboutwhatever: scatterdarknessscattersilence: killerville: korrasforevergirl: thefingerfuckingfemalefury: airl0ck: thefingerfuckingfemalefury: scottbaiowulf: broke-and-eating-well-in-okc: hojolove: Proof you can market anything as a “Superfood” if it says Organic, Raw and Gluten-free. THERE’S A FREAK’N WARNING ON THE BACK THAT IF EATEN IN EXCESS THEY CAUSE SYMPTOMS OF CYANIDE POISONING! Their suggestion to eating these is to methodically poison […]