Before my shade, I'll hope I've made a faint impression in the sand

[sovay]

My poem "Female Figure of the Early Spedos Type, 1884–" is now online at GlitterShip. It was inspired by the art of Amadeo Modigliani but honestly more by Cycladic figurines and I am delighted that it shares an episode with Rose Lemberg's "These Are the Attributes By Which You Shall Know God."

I had the migraine-caliber headache straight through to this evening, which made for a terrible night and majority of today, but at the moment I appear to have only an ordinary headache, which frankly I'll take. Now that I can look at screens again, I am going to lie on the couch and stare at a movie.

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[kore]

ENTS can fucking suck. T is obviously horribly allergic to SOMEthing (not cats), and they gave him the baseline allergy scratch test and he didn't respond strongly to anything so they were all "Surprise, you have no allergies!" which is total bullshit AND was entered on his fucking chart. Anyway.

I get headaches which can turn into migraines, and sinus pain which can turn into headaches, but they don't seem to overlap a lot, altho sinus infections/pain seem more likely to trigger headaches. I've had some kind of respiratory/sinus trouble apparently since I was an infant in an incubator. sigh.

[sovay]

ENTS can fucking suck.

I had a very good one, but she may have retired and has definitely left the system I have access to.

I've had some kind of respiratory/sinus trouble apparently since I was an infant in an incubator. sigh.

I have a long history of chronic facial pain and a long history of sinus issues. There are things I can't evaluate for myself, but there are other things I know how they feel, and again, I would like not to have to work so hard to be trusted on them. What I had this weekend wound up being functionally indistinguishable from a migraine in symptoms (intensity of pain, sensitivity to light and noise, nausea), but crucially did not behave like one—was not amenable to my normal method of breaking migraines, improved after something that wouldn't have fixed one. That is what I am going to have to make very clear tomorrow.

[kore]

What I had this weekend wound up being functionally indistinguishable from a migraine in symptoms (intensity of pain, sensitivity to light and noise, nausea), but crucially did not behave like one—was not amenable to my normal method of breaking migraines, improved after something that wouldn't have fixed one. That is what I am going to have to make very clear tomorrow.

Wow, that sounds so fucking painful and frustrating. I hope they believe you. (There are some truly terrible stats about how often doctors don't believe women and minorities trying to tell them about chronic pain or even sometimes life-threatening symptoms! W.T.F.)

[sovay]

Wow, that sounds so fucking painful and frustrating. I hope they believe you.

Thank you! It hasn't been fun!

(There are some truly terrible stats about how often doctors don't believe women and minorities trying to tell them about chronic pain or even sometimes life-threatening symptoms! W.T.F.)

*fistbump of people with terrible medical stories*