A blog about chronic illness and chronic pain life
Read Our Chronic Pain Story: The Plot Part I So in Part 1 I went over how I think I got about making the plot of my life story and it can be summed up by: The plot and meaning of my story was this: Life is suffering and that is all that it will … Continue reading Our Chronic Pain Story: The Theme Part II
I won the last category of prizes in this year's #ShadesForMigraine contest and in it you win a prize package. There is always something interesting in there. 1st prize came with an Allay Green Light lamp (Coupon here) for example and that is a product I adore and would recommend to anyone with migraine disease. … Continue reading Migraine products from #ShadesForMigraine
I have written on this subject before because it is something I have been pondering for some time as a metaphor to delve into how I think about pain. A metaphor that works for me because I am a writer. See: The pain story and The story we tell ourselves Now a story has a … Continue reading Our Chronic Pain Story: The Plot Part I
Time for the linkup prompts with A Chronic Voice for August! Prompts UnlockingLimitingStudyingWatchingHealing July seemed to linger. It has been too hot for me which makes my migraine attacks flare and with a lot of more nausea in there. I have been in an abnormal amount of pain as well with an insane amount of … Continue reading A Chronic Voice: August Prompts
The CEFALY is an external stimulation device used to treat migraine disease. It is FDA cleared (prescription required in the U.S.) for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in patients above 18 years of age and the preventative treatment of episodic migraine in patients above 18 years of age. I have used … Continue reading CEFALY device for Migraine treatment
DISABLED Well. Doesn't that word seem Heavy and filled with more Meaning than it actually has? Other people put more meaning on it that it actually has. Stigma like we are 'lazy' and 'mooching off the system' and 'just don't want to work' and 'most people on disability are just faking it' (because we make … Continue reading Chronic illness: The Disabled line
