Migraine Connection: Excerpt

Excerpt:

"I was on the couch in the living room. Alone in the house as Mom worked in the office up the street, and Dad drove a truck for the local newspaper. I writhed in pain wrapped in my black robe with red piping, cocooned in a green afghan crocheted by my grandmother, shivering despite the heat, sweating despite how cold I felt. The belt from my robe was wrapped tightly around my forehead, twisted at one end, trying to calm the pounding of the demon that was trying to get out."

Read more at my blog on Migraine Connection

(Excerpt copyright 2006 Choice Media)

Migraine Connection

I'd like to put a plug in for the site where I've begun a supplemental blog. That site is http://www.migraine-connection.com, part of the healthcentral.com family. Come on over and read what I have to say there, as well. Feel free to join the community, comment, and talk on the message boards too!

See you there!

(Oh, and fear not-- you'll still get your oddly-frequent dose of me here, too).

-Rob

How do you know it's a migraine?

I said to my wife today that I've been battling a low grade migraine for the past couple days. She asked me "How do you know it's a migraine? Maybe it's just a regular headache."

You just know. You know? You know in the way that your hair hurts. Or in the way that the pain seems to be more existential than real, sometimes. You know in the way that the pain affects your head and your digestive system at the same time. You know because you've had them before, and whether it's a Richter 1 or a Richter 9, you know your migraine because it is a part of you.

Oh yeah, I think this is something like day 4 or 5 of this particular migraine. Today's drug of choice was Midrin. It did the trick from about 2:00 PM today until about 10 minutes ago, when the headache started to pop through again.

On the plus side, I think I know what is triggering this particular batch-- it's the blasted weather. This batch has been with me ever since a low pressure system has been around. We've been having relatively crappy weather, and my head has been responding in kind.

Last bit of news, then it is definitely time for bed: it sounds like the other site should have my material up and published by early next week. I'm excited about this opportunity!

Blasted Breakthroughs

Well, here I am again, with another blasted breakthrough. Luckily, this one was, once again, nice and low on the "Official Xinc Migraine Richter Scale." A Maxalt in the car on the way home took care of it by the time dinner was done. Once again, this one made my hair hurt. How is that even possible-- hair doesn't even have nerve cells, does it?

I noticed recently that Ben Affleck had a migraine and it made the news. That puts my personal count of celebrities with known migraine disease up to two: Ben Affleck and Larry King's wife Shawn. Send me a comment (and a link to a news story or a website, if you have it) if you know of any other celebs that are known to have migraines.

I'm looking forward to the launch of my upcoming foray into professional blogging. I'm thinking it should be this week. Look for an announcement and a link right here in this very blog!

Until then, Bat-Friends. . . Peace Out.