Day in and day out, I’m plagued with this disconnect between myself and those around me. So today, I’m writing you this letter. To my future teachers…I promise I’m not trying to skip your class. I know you see my accommodation letter and wish you could just have a class full of students who didn’t […]

August 3rd, 2016. After months of drawing and saving up, I permanently affixed a symbol that meant so much to me on my back. A lotus flower: as a lotus flower is born in the water, grows in the water and rises out of the water to stand above it unsoiled, so I born in […]

In today’s episode of my head hurts and no an Advil won’t solve my problems… I wanted to break down what is becoming the “cycle” of my migraines. No, I don’t intend to explain the pre and postdrome phases of “migraine” in all sorts of clinical terms, but rather the way the migraine evolves and […]

Progress doesn’t always mean noticeable. Progress is something slow, something earned, and something that goes in many directions. I sat down in June and decided I needed to physically document this journey so that I’d know what to say to doctors and specialists more accurately. Sure my existing methods had been able to show frequency […]

I don’t actually expect anyone to understand anymore. I mean, I reached the point where every aspect of my life, is so different from the able-bodied portion of society that holding any sort of hope seems pointless. To say I’m struggling, is an understatement. There’s a month until school starts back up and sadly I […]