Pushing to do… The Bare Minimum

It’s slowly becoming more and more apparent that the non-procrastinating, always trying to get ahead and stay ahead individual that I am, is failing at the “staying ahead” part of my life. I go to bed with a migraine that progressively gets worse. I wake up with a migraine that gets progressively worse. My massage […]

Positive Notes

Here I go mixing things up before things have really taken off. My featured picture is intended to represent the way chronic illnesses and disabilities are only really seen in black and white. My words are intended to fill in all that grey space that is ignored. But today I needed a little color. Because […]

Beyond the Pain

Who would have thought when I was officially diagnosed with chronic migraine at the beginning of high school, I would be where I am today. There is so much that doesn’t get discussed in that initial diagnosis. There are so many tangents of this disorder, that were never explained to me. I never imagined that […]

Moving with Migraine

I thought balancing school, work, and migraine was an almost impossible task. Now subtract school, and for the most part work, and add in moving and you’ve got just about the least ideal situation for a migraineur. So bright side, my furniture arrived yesterday like it was supposed to and my head wasn’t pounding. Now […]

The Let Down

There’s a whole other side to this migraine world that I find myself trapped in. Its this foggy, blurry, not level world that isn’t understandable. It is hard to explain. It’s this place that I find myself in this morning. I think I rolled around for an hour before attempting to get out of bed, […]