The Jail Tree by Michele Bledsoe
Excruciating headache
since 2:00 am
curled up
hand clamped over my eye
to keep it from
popping out of my skull
beneath the unyielding pressure.
It went on and on
for hours and hours
coming in terrible waves..
When relief came
I was bursting with gratitude..
how wonderful it is
when pain stops.
So I ran to my easel
and painted and painted
with such great joy..
The headache did not return..
banished like a demon
in the light of God’s gift.
Once a person said to me he got migraines from drinking cognac. he advised me to keep a diary about all I ate and drank. After a while I discovered that my migraines followed 4 days after eating ham. I stopped eating ham for years and for over 40 years I don’t have migraine. Since 10 yrs I do eat ham again, in small bits, and I am fine. So maybe your migraine is food-related also. My advise is to try it out and realise the migraine can come days and days later than the guilty food.
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Great advice, thank you for sharing 🙂
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I am a chronic migraine sufferer. More than half of my month are migraine days so I know that relief! Sometimes I am even afraid to make art in case it will bring on another cycle of pain. So I get it!
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Thanks for sharing your experience, Nancy!
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