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My worst migraine ever
Ok, so the details of this story are going to seem a bit jumbled… because in my mind they were a bit jumbled… because when you have a serious migraine attack, they are always a bit jumbled… * It was Easter time, and I had a bad migraine. Not really…
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“How to change minds”
When my neurologist told me that “more medicine doesn’t equal less pain”, I didn’t want to listen. When he told me that to heal, I needed to adjust my lifestyle and mindset, I became as prickly as a cactus. When he suggested that I should start doing meditation, yoga and…
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Hanging out
I never had a hammock growing up. We had swings when we were little. Some of the swings were store bought, others were improvised from tires or planks and ropes. Still going decades later, my father turned a milk crate into a baby swing for my daughters. I still remember…
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BRAIN-FOG (a short story)
Carey shook hands with the call center’s floor manager and then tucked her hand back into her jacket pocket, trying to hide the fact that she was wiping his sweat off her fingers. She followed Mr Abaddon’s skinny shoulders and wide hips towards her new cubicle, bemused by his strange…
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What is functional medicine?
When I first heard the phrase “functional medicine” from my blogging buddy Midwest Mary, my first thought was – “isn’t all medicine functional? Why would I take a non-functioning medication?!?” Curiosity piqued, I went off to find out more about ‘functional medicine.’ First stop – my computer’s AI assistant which…
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PhD’ing with a migraine
I’ve been working part-time on my PhD for a little over 4 years now… and for more than half of that, I’ve had a migraine. It’s a little bit shocking to realize just how much of my study was undertaken in pain. But as I inch my way closer to…
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Doctors behaving badly
This isn’t intended to be a trigger-warning kind of post – my definition of “bad behavior” is not going to be where your mind might be going. I’m just going to talk about a personal experience that left me emotionally winded, nothing more… When I was at my lowest point…
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Pebble-power
Ok, so I’m always ten steps behind the rest of the world when it comes to trends… I am what I am. But, the other day I came across the idea of “pebbling” and I fell in love. Now, please don’t hold me to account if all of this is…
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Deprivation (a short story)
On a derelict property, located on some backwater road of a forgotten suburb, there was a small shed. Inside the shed was a portable table, on which there was a candle, burnt half-way down as it rested on its tin-can platter. The room had a door to the outside, and…
The Mindful Migraine 