I whine about people not taking migraine seriously, but we’re pretty shit at properly caring for any sick people who are not rich as god. A few months ago I was in line at the grocery store behind a construction worker buying ginger ale on her break to help with her nausea – she was getting chemotherapy again, you see? And I’m like, WHAT you are running around on ladders and scaffolding in this terrible weather on motherfucking chemo? What is wrong with the world?
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.
Hubert Airy’s 1870 diagram of his migraine aura looks familiar to many migraineurs today. The Royal Society
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 “fortifications” (I didn’t for a long time!), check out this old map of Bremen.
The walls and defenses (“fortifications”) around old cities were built in zigzagging circles that look quite like the outer edge of this common aura.