Posts tagged “Chocolate and Vicodin”

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 […]

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 […]