The following entry is personal.  It  has nothing to do with fashion, the current events running in SecondLife or that great weekend find.  It’s personal, about me and the struggles I face being an individual who suffers from multiple chronic illnesses.

Many of you who read my blog or follow me on other social networks are well aware that I am ill.  Some of you are unsure what I have and very politely have asked privately if I would mind sharing what I do have.  Others are new to my little corner of the world, and unaware that I am even ill.  Part of this entry will clear that up, but the majority of it is for my own purging, a necessary catharsis if you will.

At age 12 I had my first migraine headache.  It was Christmas 1985.   I remember the falling snow began as my siblings and I put out luminarias in the yard as was our tradition.  In January of that year, mon Papa had a massive coronary heart-attack, which he died from.  The pain in my head was awful, but what was freightening is that my hand, face and tongue went numb.  Along with that, I saw everything with this odd swirling fuzziness as if I had been staring up at the sun for a long while.

Mon Mama took me to our family doctor after the holiday, and that is where I discovered I had had a migraine headache.   That was the beginning of my long 27 year journey.  Taking the medications out at the time for migraine, which was not that common as it is now, did little to help me.  I started having the (Read more...)

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