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Barometric shifts….

😵‍💫 this week has been wild… generally this doesn‘t happen in winter 😝 but this year 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Stuck at home with a nasty migraine and hating every minute of it and feeling guilty about not going to work. Today I am thankful for naps and audiobooks

Hi Litsy friends—quick non-book-related post! This is my friend Amber & her wife Elizabeth—two of my closest friends & also two of the most generous & caring people I know. Amber suffers from occipital neuralgia (chronic migraines, vertigo, nausea, light sensitivity). Recently all treatment that had helped stopped working. She‘s an ideal candidate for a surgery to cure her—with a 90% success rate—but insurance won‘t cover it.
#litsymigraineclub

4/5⭐ Much of the info wasn't new to me as someone who's gotten migraines since childhood, but it was validating to get a neurologist's explanations for the management strategies I had come to on my own. I appreciated Turknett's hot air balloon analogy for how triggers work. I recommend this book for both people with migraines & for people without to understand how much we deal with on a daily basis either trying to avoid or get through a migraine.

Now, next time I suffer from a migraine,
I finally have the perfect description when someone asks I feel.
"..The best description of what a migraine feels like..
"..like urchin spines driven into my eyes. This is how Zesu must have felt before Athena leapt from his skull, I thought. I crawled to my my room and lay in the shuttered dark, dreaming of how sweet it would be to cut through my neck and make it end
#Circe #migraines

#Circe #migraines

Again no #fridayreads for me, I got such a nice pillow at work for my sofa today, but after a long and stressful day T work the migraine got me again. After it has been hot for so long and I had no problems, I got it, when I was twenty minutes at home. So instead of reading I am resting in bed and hope the pain won't last too long... #migraineisntareadingcompanion

This is me this morning. Wanted to spend a quiet day reading... ugh.
*picture found by Google from The World of Disney.

Look what I got in the mail today another Mother‘s Day gift 😋 so excited to start reading this 😊

Ahem, I‘m calling this meeting of the #LitsyMigraineClub to order. If you need me, I‘ll be in bed. Have a good day Littens, I‘ll check in later. Meeting adjourned.