Archive for August, 2016
Lying in bed, reading on my phone. Super annoyed by weird phone glitch. Then I realized it was a brain glitch.
Sometimes getting a migraine looks like your phone is broken.
Music for months of blistering sun
What I hear when people try to justify neoliberalism
Everything would be easier if you just didn’t exist.
If you just …
So many people tell me to my face that my migraines could be controlled/cured if I wasn’t stressed, if I just did yoga or meditation. I wonder how many people who don’t say that still think staying sick is my fault?
Migraines or Bremen
Hubert Airy, a doctor in the 1800s, drew pictures of his aura that are instantly recognizable to many migraineurs. My auras are often made of moving, close together lines, but very rarely in a fortification pattern. Also, mine are typically in neon green or violet. If you don’t get why auras like this are called […]
Music for realizing that you’ve had migraine attacks 58 of the last 61 days and then just doing some work
Not hired
So I was interviewing someone to clean my house since I’m too sick to do it myself. I made the mistake of mentioning my migraine and was treated to a mini-lecture on how I could cure my migraine if I learned to control my stress with yoga and meditation. Thanks to years of yoga and […]