Doctor Karim: In short term I can offer you medication but in the long term maybe it will be helpful if I referred you to a councillor. I would like you to make another appointment to view the situation but if you have any further concerns in the mean time please come and see me sooner. Yasmin: Yes that would be helpful and thank you for listening.
Joan Didion discusses in her piece, “In Bed,” about her life as a migraine sufferer. She has dealt with this debilitating condition since she was eight-years-old. One of the important things she mentions is, “… Migraine headaches were, as everyone who did not have them knew, imaginary.” She admits that many assume migraine sufferers “bring it on themselves,” and that it is their fault. They are told to simply take a couple aspirin to alleviate the pain.
Pounding headache, nausea, light sensitivity and vomiting are all weary symptoms of a migraine. They can cause absolutely incapacitating pain and immobilise a person at times. It is often treated with antinausea drugs and preventive medicines and also involves painkillers. A migraine is not as uncommon as we think, in fact, according to the Migraine Research Foundation an estimated one billion people are affected by this syndrome globally. Mostly they choose to live with it and gradually begin depending on painkillers to get rid of the mind numbing pain.
One night, I woke up to my sister screaming; her body was drenched in sweat, and she repeatedly said, “I can’t move my legs”. I was young then and didn’t understand what she meant. I slowly lifted the covers off of her legs. They looked perfectly normal to me, so I asked her to wiggle her toes. Thirty seconds went by, and no movement occurred; she says, “I really can’t move my legs”.
Sustainable development is the key approach for a brighter future as resources are increasingly scarce. Firstly, I would like to become part of the Monash environment-based association, getting involved in various activities and projects. My near-term goal would be expanding the community by collaborating not only with Monash campuses, but joining forces with other universities in Melbourne as well. The fundamental reason for this is committed people can cooperate to run collective meetings and organize campaign in larger scale. From a pragmatic standpoint, it would definitely be more efficient and effective to host go-green events such as giving away recyclable bags to public.
My interest in Epilepsy started before I even began to get seizures, for the reason that my uncle and aunt used to get seizures too and my mom would give me brief stories of them. I have relentlessly gotten on my computer just to research news on interesting subjects, including Epilepsy; through this I have gained a lot of knowledge on various topics, sadly I don’t take the time to memorize every bit of detail. But I have learned that there is no cure for Epilepsy, just treatments, is caused by abnormal brain waves, and can last from two years to a lifetime. So I conducted a survey to see how much people knew about Epilepsy and how many have had any previous experience dealing with it, and since it is a very common disorder that affects any
Dear all staff who work at Prairie Care Brooklyn Park In-patient, This letter was going to be a formal apology, but I had realized there was no reason to apologize. I’ve carried immense guilt for the things I’ve done to the each of you who interacted with me. I will always feel guilty, but I now believe it is not necessary because I know each one of you would not want me to feel guilty. Most people in my life have made me feel guilty for my behaviors that stem from my mental health, but you all came from a place of understanding and that was the first time in my life I had ever had anyone understand what I was going through was mostly out of my control. There is not one staff member that was with me at Brooklyn Park that I don’t appreciate even if I threw my poop at you out of anger.
Everyone at one point or another has come down with a case of the sniffles or has gotten a migraine. You’re just lucky that it happened in the 21st century and not the Middle Ages. During that time the common cold would have been treated by giving you sweet-smelling herbs such as rose, lavender, sage, and bay and to treat a migraine you would have undergone a procedure known as Trepanation, the act of drilling a hole in the skull to relieve pain and pressure. I decided to do this to research this topic because I’ve always have an interest in the strange medical techniques of anytime period. I’ve always been interested in strange medical anomalies from shows like untold stories of the ER, etc.
My world explodes into a distorted perception of agony and chaos. Pain envelopes my existence. Heart beating rapidly. I’m hyperventilating. The air smells of smoke and burning flesh.
My freshman year I went out for football even though there was a high percentage I wasn't going to play due to my last year traumatic brain injury. I went to practice and helped with everything and it was fine, less fun than I remember from years past. I got cleared and played and it still didn't seem like it used to due to me be scared at every hit against my head I was going to get another concussion. The year ended and I decided it was going to be my last year playing football. I thought to myself that I was going to need find another sport.
No matter where I am, I always find my way to the books. The worlds draw me in, I’m always attracted to imagining something, something other than my life. I thought that was normal, I never understood why others would tease me for carrying a book instead of a Mobile or a Tamagotchi. “If only they knew the magic inside” I mumble to myself.
A year ago, I was diagnosed with Chronic Migraines. My condition is not nearly as bad cancer or blindness, but it does affect my everyday life. Every day since I was twelve I have had headache, and I have had a migraine at least twice a month. Many doctors have tried to find a way to lessen my pain, but I am extremely sensitive to medication. Some doctors have even given up on helping me due to the adverse reactions I have to most medications I am put on.
Knots in my Life Everyone has knots and struggles in their lifetime that we have to untie an overcome. Jerry Spinelli was very famous for the book “Knots in My Yo-Yo String. I have many knots and mental blocks in my life as a middle schooler. One of the biggest mental blocks for me is from my nine years of gymnastics. A knot in my life was formed by a couple of terrifying events that happened in the past.
My heart would palpitate while my skin flushed. I could feel myself getting hotter and more nervous as thoughts raced through my head. They weren’t connected, but they felt tied together, stuck. I felt as if my life was on a video reel but the sounds were distorted, and the film was held together by a shaky hand. My teacher looked at me, saying something but all I heard was unintelligible speech, the other students were staring at me while I prayed silently for a sinkhole to open up and remove me from the situation entirely.
Fatigue has manifested in both my mother and I, you can tell by just looking at us. I saw it in her eyes as she looked at me—but it was not really when she looked at me; rather, it was when she looked away. Her physical being was with me, but throughout the interview I wondered if her mind was elsewhere. The likelihood of her mind being elsewhere was rather high, given that we were discussing her lifelong battle with diabetes. Although my mother was diagnosed with diabetes during her pregnancy with me, according to her doctor, her body was extensively damaged from the years the diabetes went undetected.
