as i sit here amidst years of 1/2 written personal migraine 'diaries', i realize that the tactic prescribed to me by many confused neurologists in my past is rediculously ineffective. to scrawl '3 day migraine' repeatedly on scraps of old paper and loblaws receipts only to combine these into said 'diary' accomplishes far less than anyone would think. maybe one day i'll open a museum where people can come and read the entries for their own amusement. maybe i'll be buried with it...or maybe the point is that since everyone is so sick of hearing 'my head hurts' at work, that the diary is supposed to be the friend that always listens when you have to vent. in any event, it's pointless and once again, i'm frustrated.
i therefore propose an improved solution to the problem. now i'm not a neurologist by any means but i feel that my 'life experience' living in this hell pretty much gets me the job. instead of living alone with this disorder, i propose to lay the groundwork here for something with a great deal of potential power. a kind of migraine 'self-help' if you will. my journals are no longer left unpublished. i'll compose my "day-in-the-life" stories in attempts to give support to others out there who understand, and to perhaps receive support in return. i'll link out to current research being conducted on this condition through the World Headache Alliance & the World Heath Organization's "lifting the burden" global campaign to reduce the burden of headache. read what you want, say what you can, but find solace in this: on the days where you feel that all is lost, you are not alone.
