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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…
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“In bed” by Joan Didion
Joan Didon (1934-2021) is an American writer and journalist. Her obituary in Vogue casually mentions: “She was afflicted by migraines and was frequently depressed, even wearing dark glasses through the wedding ceremony.” I found a picture on Joan’s website, and sunglasses indoors does appear to confirm she is a person…
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My first migraine
It occurred to me the other day that whenever we experience an event for the FIRST TIME, there is the potential for our hearts and minds to “learn” from how that event unfolded and assume that this is the “normal” way such an event ALWAYS unfolds… that we might accidentally…
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Go go (healing) logo…!!
A while ago, I wrote about how you need to “be prepared” when it comes to planning your day out if you have a migraine. As part of the post, I was umming and ahhing about whether to include a photo of my emergency medical alert keyring. I took the…
The Mindful Migraine 