Photo Friday- Grandpa’s Hands
This picture is being sold as part of a fundraising effort between the US PainFoundation and 540WMain, a non-profit run by my dear friend Calvin Eaton in Rochester, NY. Learn more about this project and how to purchase artwork by those who have chronic pain conditions.
Invisible Beauty in Pain Artist Spotlight & Interview- Katie Golden
I recently took this picture at the bedside of my grandfather after major surgery. He is making a slow, but steady recovery. Both hands, his and mine, are in pain. His from surgery, mine from chronic migraine. Pain doesn’t discriminate.
Photo Friday – Past 5 Weeks of Travel
Today, I’m getting on a plane from DC back to LA. The past 5 weeks have been filled with conferences, interviews, writing, education, planning, advocacy and lots of travel. I had a friend ask me how I travel so much with such debilitating chronic migraine? My response was: If there’s something really important to me,…
Photo Friday- Fluorescent Lighting=Hell
I found this is a cute little store in Philly. Truer words never spoken. When I was still working in an office, they had to disable the automatic lighting and I brought in lamps. Although everyone with migraine disease has the legal right to ask for workplace accommodations for their condition, not every company is…
Migraine Attack: Too Exhausted to Move
I took this video a few days after coming home from 6 days in the hospital. I’ve had a really hard time recovering although the ketamine treatment tends to decrease the frequency and intensity of my migraine attacks. Sometimes you just gotta cry it out.