Summary Of In Bed By Joan Didion

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"In Bed," an essay written by Joan Didion, talks about her own struggles with migraine that she inherited from her parents. Migraine is a neurologic illness that frequently results in a severe headache. Due to her inability to prevent migraines, Didion has learned to live with them. However, there are advantages to approaching this illness the way Didion did. Joan Didion had suffered from migraines since she was eight years old. She hoped that one day, she would no longer experience pain. Didion worried about her career and the future. She had previously taken medication and even learned how to inject herself to get rid of the migraines. “At one point I learned to give myself two daily injections…but I still have migraine”, (Didion 171).