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I Call Shenanigans
This from the daily calendar:
Were Alice’s adventures the by-product of a bad headache? Researchers for the British medical journal The Lancet reached that conclusion in 1999, when they analyzed the migraine hallucinations Lewis Carroll recorded in his diaries. Recurring images from the years leading up to the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 supported the thesis “that at least some of Alice’s adventures were based on Carroll’s personal migraine aura perceptions.”
Alright folks. I’ve been experiencing migraines since I was 13 years old when I went to see my first neurologist. I’ve had many very strange manifestations of these mind numbing headaches: loss of speech, loss of feeling, really severe confusion, compromised vision, auras, painful numbing in my face that’s lasted for days on end, and let us not forget, excruciating pain. I am very confident that I’ve NEVER had a hallucination that came anywhere near Alice and her visit to Wonderland.
Isabella gets them, too, and trust me, if either of us got that interesting side effect, we’d be making billions in children’s literature.
I think these researchers ought to revisit Mr. Carroll’s drug use.
I lived with migraines from the time I was 6 years old, until I went through menopause. I know you don’t want to wait that long. I was an adult before I knew that there was pain medication I could take for that excruciating, vomiting agony.
If you can bring yourself to drink the original Alka-Seltzer, it might bring you a little relief. Then again, it might make you throw up your shoes and socks.
Since I don’t have all those hormones raging in and out of my system all the time, I rarely get a regular headache, much less a migraine.
My sympathies, ladies.