Archive for 2016
chronicillnessproblems: clairetheelectrick: What abled people don’t understand is that self-advocacy is so, SO EXHAUSTING. It pushes us to our limits, it forces us to expend energy (that we often don’t have) to demand basic human rights, rights that abled bodies and minds get without even knowing it. What so utterly frustrates me is that I […]
I need to be able to reliably work 20 hours a week before I can go back to work and start making $$ again. The first 4 months of medical leave were about getting well enough to do stuff like cook and grocery shop regularly. With rest, emotional recovery, getting a new treatment nailed down, […]
Hildegard von Bingen was born about 1000 years ago. She was sickly and had “visions.” Based on her drawings and writing, a few scholars now believe she had migraines. Looks like in an environment where auras were interpreted as mystical visions, she did pretty well, becoming > a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian […]
Migraine by Ilona Via Flickr: Migrena la migraine noire
Migraine Art #115 by Migraine Art Via Flickr: From Migraine Art by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson
From Migraine Action.