This whole piece was, (I'm gonna use the word) so relatable to my life! Especially in high school during a growth spurt, I suffered from migraines. I had the kind where they weren't usually headaches, but rather they were attacks of vertigo, where I would get incredibly dizzy and feel like I was about to faint at any given moment, so this piece really made me go "I feel you, sister!" I still get them occasionally, but it is livable, unlike back then when I had to miss school because of it.
1. The first passage that grabbed my attention was on page 689 where she says "for I had no brain tumor, no eyestrain, no high blood pressure, nothing wrong with me at all: I simply had migraine headaches." it made me go "yay, I'm not the only weirdo out there that the doctors could find nothing wrong with but have terrible head drama and determine it migraines!" (yes I said drama)
2. Page 689 "Migraine is something more than the fancy of a neurotic imagination." Why does she state the illness like this? Like, I have always said "I have migraines", but she just says "migraine" as in one singular headache, throughout the piece. I don't quite understand this because I don't know about most people, but in my experience of the condition I have had multiple migraines. Not just one.
3. Page 689-690 "Thomas Jefferson had migraine, and so did Ulysses S. Grant, the day he accepted Lee's surrender" this is interesting because I am actually related to U.S. Grant. Must run in the distant family too. Probably not the case, but I also just found this factual information an interesting addition to the piece.
4. Page 690 "I will drive through red lights, lose the house keys, spill whatever I am holding, lose the ability to focus my eyes or frame coherent sentences, and generally give the appearance of being on drugs." This totally happens. There have been numerous times when I just can't think at all when I have a migraine. It literally just numbs you. (This was another "yeah!" moment)
5. Page 691 "All of us who have migraine suffer not only from the attacks themselves but from this common conviction that we are perversely refusing to cure ourselves by taking a couple of aspirin, that we are making ourselves sick, that we bring it on ourselves." Gosh, tis woman just won't stop peaking the migraine truth!
Overall, this was a well-written explanation of migraines, and that detail, as well as how much I can relate to it, is what made this piece nice to read.
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