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...Anyway, to bring things full circle and finally answer your question, “What the hell does the phrase from Field of Dreams have to do with this post?”....

...I love change but then my nervous system does not. The idea for this essay struck me all of a sudden....

...I sat there for a while staring at the door. I stopped taking everything. I started looking for a new doctor....

...There was a little snippet snuck in there that mentioned “some confusion” as an uncommon side-effect, but to me that meant “Oops, I thought I put my keys...

...What you practise behind closed doors is your personal thing. No one ever has to know. Do this for yourself....

...I spent the rest of our vacation laying around with my aunt’s dogs. No more horseback riding or swinging on gigantic swings hanging from the barn....

...In the summer of 2009, we let the devil in the door....

...Finally, the doctor agreed to get morphine from the emergency room next door.  In the end, I felt a tiny bit better, and that was good enough....

...Your mind does funny things when you're in insufferable pain....

...I stop her and say no, that does not work, is there not anything else that could possibly help?? I tell her about what I've read online....

...Took Benadryl, per the drs service call and felt better soon after, but still not great....

...with it comes hope; hope that I might be finally able to manage what has been troubling me for so long; hope that I might be able to step out...

...But it also does mininize MY pain and MY reality. Migraine is often met with skepticism, stigma and discrimination....

...I discovered that writing helped give me respite from the usual clutches of migraines, and still does to this day....

...readable (but it’s uncomfortable because i can't see what I've read already). 30 to 60 minutes later, it leads to severe headache, that sometimes does...

...My house is very small, so if I'm home with the kids (ages 7 and 5) when this needs to take place, I can very easily still hear them (I...