Posts filed under “Books”
I really didn’t mean to buy those shoes
I usually have great self control, even when it comes to one of my biggest temptations – beautiful shoes. I can go months and months just window shopping, with hardly a twinge of pain when I leave without a new pair. But all that goes out the window after a bad migraine. As ridiculous as […]
Commiseration
From Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away by Jennette Fulda: The only people who seemed to understand how to talk to someone with a chronic illness were other people who were sick. I didn’t need advice, I didn’t need them to say they were sorry, I just […]
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 […]
How do you beat the Colorado?
From Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away by Jennette Fulda: I stayed at the bar until the last band finished playing at one o’clock in the morning. I went to bed knowing I now owed my body a debt that I would pay for in pain, but […]
I hope you get better soon
From Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away by Jennette Fulda: I was greeting guests at my book release party at a local Italian restaurant. I entertained the crowd with a smile and shoved the headache into the darkest corner of my mind. No one mentioned it, and […]
Plans and headaches – self pity edition
From Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away by Jennette Fulda: One Friday I was driving home from work, thinking about my headache as I always did, when I passed a theater marquee that said the band Stars was playing that night. I smiled quickly at the the […]
Always half right/wrong
From Karban and Huntzinger’s How to Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook: Unlike some other scientific disciplines, ecological principles are not universal. Finding a single counterexample will make us rethink our working hypothesis about the force of gravity. However, finding a single counterexample does not disprove our ideas about competition. Similarly, unlike other disciplines, ecological hypotheses […]