The Fall
Both in terms of season and headaches. In late September, early October, I was doing well. I had some weeks of 4 headache-free days in a row, and I was feeling pretty good.
Family News and migraine
What’s goin’ on
Andrew and Jenny are doing a kitchen remodel. There is lots of discussion around paint colors, what it will feel like to tear that wall out and open up the kitchen to the living room and just when this is all going to happen. Since for us, this is a vacation to Santa Cruz, we ride our bikes, walk on the beach and talk about which route to take this time driving our van north towards home.
Bother me!
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Not showing up
There are 14 million of us living with daily headache. Chronic migraine means we are often unavailable for the activities and people we love.
When things aren’t going well
The last few months have been ugly. Headaches have been daily, and I’m not sleeping well either. Pain and anxiety have invaded my dreams. When I stagger out of bed in the morning, I’m often in the worst shape of the day. Things tends to slowly improve as the day wears on. Then they start to deteriorate in the evening with fatigue and onset of dull pain in my head or muscle spasms in my upper back. I know this is not just my story.
Butterfly season
Monarchs
I am with 2 friends in Santa Cruz, California. A mini vacation for a week in the guise of house sitting for my son.
I prefer a window seat
Whether it’s on an airplane or in my own bay window, I love to be able to see out and watch the world go by.
Moment by moment
I am yet again back in the relm of daily headaches that are minimally responsive to the Cefaly www.cefaly.us, as well as all the usual preventatives and some unusual ones.
Anatomy of a headache week
Monday
Tonight we’re planning on going to a writer’s open mike session at Village Books, and we’re both on the list to read. My first time.
I feel a slight pressure on the left side of my head as I’m preparing dinner. Pretty soon I’m thinking I should use my Cefaly to try to head this off, whatever it is. But time is short so I finish cooking, we eat and go.
The electric bike solution
The trouble with exercise
Wanna decrease your migraines? Get more exercise. BUT if you have chronic migraines or chronic daily headache, you are generally so bushed that anything beyond an easy stroll seems insurmountable.
Life in a shoe
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe ……………..