Posts filed under “Migraine”
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 […]
Bad days are bad
I’ve had a lot of migraines in the last 2 or 3 months. Bad ones, that make me desperate for unconsciousness. Not so bad ones that make me tired and stupid and slow. 3 out of 4 days, gone. I’m trying to move to another country, which is time consuming and expensive. Migraines obliterate extraordinary […]
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 […]
May
From Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away by Jennette Fulda: It had been a week now. Seven days. 168 hours. 10, 080 minutes. 604, 800 seconds of pain. Constant pain. It gnawed on my nerves with formless teeth as I sipped my coffee. It flicked at my […]
Haunted
I put off reading Haunted for over a year after a friend lent it to me. Everyone told me it was horrific, disgusting. A sampling of reviews made me wonder why anyone would ever want to read it: Reading a Palahniuk novel is like getting zipped inside a boxer’s heavy bag while the author goes […]