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Tuesday, 8 December 2015

'Always look on the bright side of life.' – Eric Idle (Monty Python)

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Yesterday I had a migraine. It was one of those low-level ones where I spend all day feeling horrible and wondering if I should leave work a...
Tuesday, 24 November 2015

'Time has no divisions to mark its passage.' – Thomas Mann

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It's been about a month since I got Botox. In some senses it feels longer than that - particularly when I have a migraine and am impatie...
Friday, 23 October 2015

'Desperate times call for Botox.' – not-so-ancient proverb

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I've said before that I wouldn't use Botox for my migraines because I didn't like the idea of putting a neurotoxic protein into ...
Wednesday, 14 October 2015

'Necessity is the mother of invention.' – Plato

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This morning I created this migraine diary: I probably could have downloaded one or found an app, but this one is tailored to my particul...
Sunday, 27 September 2015

'Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.' – Joseph Campbell

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Part of any chronic illness is adjusting your self-image to the new normal. I've finally come to terms with being someone who needs to m...
Monday, 13 July 2015

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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How much is too much? I've been wondering this for a few weeks now, particularly every time I get a migraine, which is about once a week...
Saturday, 4 July 2015

Migraine To Do List

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My Migraine To Do (and not to do) List