Month: September 2012

I have come to the point in my life where I usually face my headaches and associated symptoms,  fatigue, drugs, side effects and more with some level of equanimity or at least resignation – for good or ill.  My therapist thinks I should cry more, but I just rarely do.

My left funky foot

However, the last few days combined with the last 3 months of foot trouble have left me gnashing my teeth in frustration, crazy with irritability, pissed off at my doctor and yesterday, definitely on the verge of tears. Continue reading “FRUSTRATION!!!”

Two or Three weeks ago, I went back in time to the Town where I was born and raised, lived until the age of 18.  I left and have never returned.  And I haven’t spent much time thinking about it since then.  But an article in Orion Magazine, Jan. Feb. 2011, “Colonization of Kern County” by Jeremy Miller brought me “home” again with an abrupt yank.  I grew up in the desert oil fields of Taft, California, and my father was an engineer working in the industry.  Miller’s article details the vast destruction the oil industry has wrought in the area.  http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6047/

Steam extraction of heavy crude oil

Continue reading “Full Circle”

Talking about migraine disease

How do I do it?  I can only address this topic with a look back ……….  It has been a long process for me to admit than I have severe chronic migraine and that it affects my life on a daily basis.  Now, at the age of 66, I am (usually) very frank about how I’m feeling at any given time.  I don’t broadcast it unless I’m feeling bad and can’t make it to work or to some other commitment because I don’t want it to enter into every conversation, but I don’t hesitate to explain if the need arises. Continue reading “Coming out of the closet”