Jottings - Slice of life - 300 - (a meditation on migraines - a personal odyssey and salvation)
(Jottings - Slice of life - 300 - a meditation on migraines - a personal odyssey and salvation) One of my earliest childhood memories, until about thirteen or fourteen, is the excruciating pain I experienced at frequent intervals on the left-hand side of my head. These were splitting headaches unimaginable in intensity. It would start with general feeling of uneasiness in the body, a loss of interest in whatever I was doing, a sense of withdrawal from the world outside, difficulty focussing on anything; a mild nauseous sensation in the stomach followed by increased salivation and a taste of bile around the mouth, few bouts of vomiting and an intense dislike of food, growing insensitivity to light ( it would become extremely painful to look at anything bright), and above all a piercing pain in the left eye with star-like formations, and holographic figures flitting across my vision with unhurried movement, often blocking areas of vision. This entire episode would last anywhere betwe